Graeme Rocher's Blog: Grails Making Java Developers Forget about Rails - Another 10 reasons to switch from Rails to Grails from Graeme Rocher. rain city digest: 10 Reasons to Switch from Rails to Grails - After spending a few years really enjoying Rails it was difficult to bring myself to even try groovy and grails. But my latest contract forced me to look for alternatives, and I'm glad I did. Here are some reasons that you may want to switch Savvy Duck: Javascript Classes: Design Patterns, MVC and Ext 2.0 - The goal was to show how you can build an MVC application using Ext 2.0. We used a number of different patterns and components to accomplish something that can be used effectively in much larger applications than this little thing. It wasn?t necessary t google-feedserver - Google Code - Google FeedServer is an open-source Atom Publishing provider based on the Abdera Framework. Google FeedServer has chosen to implement simple backend data adapters that allow the developer to quickly deploy a feed for an existing data source such as a db
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iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you? Monday, 14 July 2008, 7:00 pm
Don't let the old object-relational impedance mismatch get the best of you or your data. Compare ORM tools Hibernate and iBATIS and the Java Persistence API itself, and find out how each one makes it. […] Boost Your Brainstorming Session with MindMeister [Mind Maps] Monday, 14 July 2008, 11:00 am
Jotting a simple list is a great way to brainstorm, but when you want to visualize, organize, and untangle a deep set of ideas, you want a mind map. Web-based mind mapping tool MindMeister offers a s. […] Using Ext JS to create LiveDataPanel - an on-demand data loading extension Monday, 14 July 2008, 1:57 am
A commonly requested piece of functionality is to load additional data when scrolling to the bottom of a dataset. DZone is a popular technology news site that uses this type of functionality on their. […] Protocol buffers: the early reviews are in Saturday, 12 July 2008, 8:16 pm
Google (my current employer) has finally open sourced protocol buffers, the data interchange format we use for internal server-to-server communication. The blogosphere’s response? “No wireless. Le. […] Continually fail to deliver Friday, 11 July 2008, 4:37 pm
“How to Fail with Agile†is definately worth a read for anyone venturing down the agile road. Guideline 15, “Drop and customize important agile practices before fully understanding them†is so. […] [ANN] EclipseLink 1.0 Released Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 10:30 pm
EclipseLink 1.0 Released  The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release completes the transiti. […] Web Service Best Practices Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 3:07 pm
Bobby Woolf at IBM has a list of articles with best practices for working with Web Services. Most of these links are IBM resources."Best practices for Web services" series: Part 1 through Part 12 (dev. […] Everything You Need to Know About Thesis 1.0 Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 3:10 am
Many of you have already gotten a first-hand look at the new options panel in Thesis 1.0, but there are tons of other improvements that I’m sure you’ll be interested in as well. I’ll reference t. […] Ext GWT v1.0 Released Monday, 7 July 2008, 11:30 am
The Ext team is proud to announce that the official release of Ext GWT v1.0 is available for download. This is the first release of Ext GWT which is the culmination of many weeks of development from t. […] The long wait for a Windows replacement Monday, 7 July 2008, 9:51 am
Mary Jo Foley and I are teaming up with a pair of posts on the same topic over at ZDNet. My entry is titled “Why you’ll have a long wait for Microsoft’s next OSâ€: The recent buzz over Microsof. […] Get IntelliJ IDEA Refcard and Win a Personal License Monday, 7 July 2008, 4:15 am
We’re happy to inform you that DZone has published the IntelliJ IDEA Refcard.According to their announcement, this refcard “…is a guide to becoming IntelliJ IDEA expert. Features include basics. […] Atlassian Code Storm Sunday, 6 July 2008, 6:14 pm
Someone recently delicioused Michael Ogawa's code_swarm project. It provides neat little visualisations of all the commits to a source code repository, focussing on interactions between all the differ. […] Chris Pearson’s Thesis Theme Options Thursday, 3 July 2008, 3:24 pm
Chris Pearson has released version 1.0 of his Thesis theme with a huge load of built-in theme options. No, really, look at them. I’d considered building a navigation manager—much like Pearson’s. […] Thesis 1.0 is Available Now! Thursday, 3 July 2008, 2:07 pm
It took me a lot longer than expected to bring this bad boy to market, but the day has finally arrived. Thesis 1.0 is now ready for download, and I think that after five minutes of poking around this. […] SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Certification Test Beta Review Thursday, 3 July 2008, 1:07 pm
Today, I took the beta version of the SQL Server 2008 BI certification test, which is free until 7/31. It was pretty grueling. I don't do well with standardized testing but this one was especially len. […] How to stop junk mail Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 12:40 pm
I’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned. Reducing Junk Mail There are several services that will help you reduce your junk mail: - GreenDime. […] PhoneFactor 1.0 Friday, 27 June 2008, 6:13 pm
PhoneFactor is a WordPress plugin that provides an additional layer of security when logging in to your WordPress site. It’s a pretty cool system. When you log in to your WordPress blog with PhoneFa. […] Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 2:59 am
Occasionally I'll write about things that I find sort of mildly, vaguely thought provoking, and somehow that writing turns out to be ragingly controversial once posted here. Case in point, XML: The A. […] The Ultimate Code Kata Monday, 23 June 2008, 2:59 am
As I was paging through Steve Yegge's voluminous body of work recently, I was struck by a 2005 entry on practicing programming: Contrary to what you might believe, merely doing your job every day doe. […] JBoss Releases on Amazon EC2 Thursday, 19 June 2008, 8:38 pm
By now many of you are aware that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fully supported by Red Hat on Amazon EC2. You can read more about the offering at http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/. Jeff Barr blogge. […]
Don't let the old object-relational impedance mismatch get the best of you or your data. Compare ORM tools Hibernate and iBATIS and the Java Persistence API itself, and find out how each one makes it. […] Boost Your Brainstorming Session with MindMeister [Mind Maps] Monday, 14 July 2008, 11:00 am
Jotting a simple list is a great way to brainstorm, but when you want to visualize, organize, and untangle a deep set of ideas, you want a mind map. Web-based mind mapping tool MindMeister offers a s. […] Using Ext JS to create LiveDataPanel - an on-demand data loading extension Monday, 14 July 2008, 1:57 am
A commonly requested piece of functionality is to load additional data when scrolling to the bottom of a dataset. DZone is a popular technology news site that uses this type of functionality on their. […] Protocol buffers: the early reviews are in Saturday, 12 July 2008, 8:16 pm
Google (my current employer) has finally open sourced protocol buffers, the data interchange format we use for internal server-to-server communication. The blogosphere’s response? “No wireless. Le. […] Continually fail to deliver Friday, 11 July 2008, 4:37 pm
“How to Fail with Agile†is definately worth a read for anyone venturing down the agile road. Guideline 15, “Drop and customize important agile practices before fully understanding them†is so. […] [ANN] EclipseLink 1.0 Released Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 10:30 pm
EclipseLink 1.0 Released  The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release completes the transiti. […] Web Service Best Practices Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 3:07 pm
Bobby Woolf at IBM has a list of articles with best practices for working with Web Services. Most of these links are IBM resources."Best practices for Web services" series: Part 1 through Part 12 (dev. […] Everything You Need to Know About Thesis 1.0 Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 3:10 am
Many of you have already gotten a first-hand look at the new options panel in Thesis 1.0, but there are tons of other improvements that I’m sure you’ll be interested in as well. I’ll reference t. […] Ext GWT v1.0 Released Monday, 7 July 2008, 11:30 am
The Ext team is proud to announce that the official release of Ext GWT v1.0 is available for download. This is the first release of Ext GWT which is the culmination of many weeks of development from t. […] The long wait for a Windows replacement Monday, 7 July 2008, 9:51 am
Mary Jo Foley and I are teaming up with a pair of posts on the same topic over at ZDNet. My entry is titled “Why you’ll have a long wait for Microsoft’s next OSâ€: The recent buzz over Microsof. […] Get IntelliJ IDEA Refcard and Win a Personal License Monday, 7 July 2008, 4:15 am
We’re happy to inform you that DZone has published the IntelliJ IDEA Refcard.According to their announcement, this refcard “…is a guide to becoming IntelliJ IDEA expert. Features include basics. […] Atlassian Code Storm Sunday, 6 July 2008, 6:14 pm
Someone recently delicioused Michael Ogawa's code_swarm project. It provides neat little visualisations of all the commits to a source code repository, focussing on interactions between all the differ. […] Chris Pearson’s Thesis Theme Options Thursday, 3 July 2008, 3:24 pm
Chris Pearson has released version 1.0 of his Thesis theme with a huge load of built-in theme options. No, really, look at them. I’d considered building a navigation manager—much like Pearson’s. […] Thesis 1.0 is Available Now! Thursday, 3 July 2008, 2:07 pm
It took me a lot longer than expected to bring this bad boy to market, but the day has finally arrived. Thesis 1.0 is now ready for download, and I think that after five minutes of poking around this. […] SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Certification Test Beta Review Thursday, 3 July 2008, 1:07 pm
Today, I took the beta version of the SQL Server 2008 BI certification test, which is free until 7/31. It was pretty grueling. I don't do well with standardized testing but this one was especially len. […] How to stop junk mail Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 12:40 pm
I’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned. Reducing Junk Mail There are several services that will help you reduce your junk mail: - GreenDime. […] PhoneFactor 1.0 Friday, 27 June 2008, 6:13 pm
PhoneFactor is a WordPress plugin that provides an additional layer of security when logging in to your WordPress site. It’s a pretty cool system. When you log in to your WordPress blog with PhoneFa. […] Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 2:59 am
Occasionally I'll write about things that I find sort of mildly, vaguely thought provoking, and somehow that writing turns out to be ragingly controversial once posted here. Case in point, XML: The A. […] The Ultimate Code Kata Monday, 23 June 2008, 2:59 am
As I was paging through Steve Yegge's voluminous body of work recently, I was struck by a 2005 entry on practicing programming: Contrary to what you might believe, merely doing your job every day doe. […] JBoss Releases on Amazon EC2 Thursday, 19 June 2008, 8:38 pm
By now many of you are aware that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fully supported by Red Hat on Amazon EC2. You can read more about the offering at http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/. Jeff Barr blogge. […]
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InfoQ: System Integration Testing Using Spring - When it comes to system integration testing Spring adds real value. In this session, Rod Johnson discusses: integration testing and the support that Spring provides for it, issues around testing the persistence layer, testing web applications. InfoQ: BEA and Oracle incorporate Sun's Project Tango - In a recent article, Sun's director for SOA products, Kevin Schmidt mentioned the fact that both Oracle and BEA have incorporated Sun's Web Services stack, Project Tango. Tango is MS .NET 3.0 interop InfoQ: Using Java to Crack Office 2007 - With Office 2007, no third-party libraries are necessary-a Java application can now read and write any Office 2007 document, because Office 2007 documents are now nothing more than ZIP files of XML documents known as the OpenXML Welcome to jXLS - jXLS is small and easy-to-use Java library for generating Excel files using XLS templates. Also jXLS can be used to read XLS files and populate Java beans with spreadsheet data according to XML configuration file How To Read / Write Excel Spreadsheet From Java - Both JExcelAPI and Jakarta POI (HSSF) are open source software to read & write data from / to Excel spreadsheet even on non-Microsoft platforms. In my tests HSSF came out to be the clear leader and recommended solution because of robustness and features. Eloquent JavaScript - Eloquent JavaScript is a hyper-book providing a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-17.txt - The Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transfer of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the Atom Syndication Format. F1 News - Grandprix.com - One of the big problems with the ongoing Stepneygate Affair is that there is a huge amount of hearsay, but not a great deal of fact YUI 2.3.0: Six New Components and a Prettier Face » Yahoo! User Interface Blog - We're pleased to announce the release of YUI version 2.3.0. This release features six new additions to the library as well as a new skinning architecture and a new visual treatment for most of our UI controls - plus 250 enhancements and bug fixes Greg the Architect : Episodes - Find out what happens when Greg tries to swallow three different SOA pitches in one day. Will he save the day, or will Greg have to chuck the project? Dr. Dobb's | Java Message Service | July 2, 2007 - SOAP-based web-service development continues to grow, and uses XML and HTTP to remove the implementation details from remote procedure calls. But while SOAP has broken new ground in distributed computing, message-oriented middleware such as the Java Messa Plans for the Rich Web Application Backplane - Both mashups and Ajax are now firmly entrenched in the Web landscape. Put them together and you have the makings for Rich Web applications. This article explains the Rich Web Application Backplane, currently a W3C Note, which is designed to bring standard 10 things I learned about using Hibernate/JPA successfully by SpencerUresk - I decided to share a few things I learned about using Hibernate/JPA in a large project with a complicated database setup OpenJPA no longer requires bytecode processing - Historically, OpenJPA required that you either run a post-compilation tool or run your application with a javaagent. The latest build of OpenJPA removes this restriction by providing various levels of support for unenhanced classes.
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jets3t is a Java toolkit for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Building on the Java library provided by Amazon, the toolkit aims to simplify interaction with S3 while providing powerful additional features.
Just a quick post to report that I’ve uploaded the two presentations of the From J2EE to Java EE Tour in my website.
The project provides what is essentially a complete RSS and Atom development kit, which includes feed parsers, generators, blog client libraries, an Atom protocol implementation, a set of ten useful blogapps, and an easy-to-install blog and wiki server.
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OPML support in Java - Missing in Action
Now that OPML 2.0 is out as a draft specification, I want to bring up the issue of the lack of support for OPML on the Java side. There are 2 libraries dealing with the idea of creation and consuming of syndication feeds: Informa and ROME.
Informa is an open-source (LPGL) Java framework for parsing, processing, and creating syndication feeds. The current release supports RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0 / RDF, RSS 2.0, and Atom 0.3. Informa also support for OPML documents but it hasn't seen any development since early June 2004. The news section of the Informa site claims that there is active development but I haven't seen anything from them yet. I have used Informa in the past and it works great but hasn't kept up with changing specifications.
The other open-source (Apache) Java library ROME, created by 3 Sun engineers is also a Java library for creating and parsing RSS and ATOM feeds. Today it accepts all flavors of RSS (0.90, RSS 0.91 Netscape, RSS 0.91 Userland, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0,) and Atom 0.3 and 1.0 feeds. Unlike Informa, ROME has active development going on and the team is putting releases quite frequently. But the major item missing is OPML support - ROME does not support OPML at this time and have no timelines documented on their roadmap.
Jakarta FeedParser is another project that I should probably mention but it's currently dormant in the Jakarta commons sandbox.
Is anyone looking at implementing OPML support for Java? Anyone know of another open-source effort going on to support OPML creation and consumption? Is Informa ever going to come out of hibernation? Anyone interested in starting a new project to implement a Java library for OPML?
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ATOM vs. RSS - Why can't we all just get along?
I can't believe we are arguing about a syndication protocol that's not even supposed to be human readable but we are and it seems like the whole RSS vs ATOM debate is going to continue.
Dave Winer just launched a new website called Really Simple Syndication, a site devoted to helping non-tech users learn about RSS. While I hope the rational behind the site is to help purveyors of RSS, I can't help but think if this isn't another salvo across ATOM's bow. As you probably know, Dave Winer is credited for shepherding RSS to its current format. Dave has done a lot for RSS and the whole idea of syndication in general, but the current state of RSS is completely fractured. With 7 different versions of RSS that are incompatible along with ownership issues, a group of people launched ATOM as a new, open format to replace all the flavors of RSS.
I blogged about Bill Gates's comments on RSS earlier in the week and I wonder if people are just making a big deal out of nothing. I guess maybe I am contributing to it by blogging about it - More fuel to the fire. Sam Ruby has an entry entitled Détente that includes some great discussion points in the whole ATOM and RSS debate. Joshua Allen has a nice blog entry entitled RSS Politics on the whole matter. My hope is that W3C accepts ATOM as a candidate recommendation and Dave Winer and Sam Ruby work together to create ATOM 1.0 that includes the best of RSS and ATOM, without RDF.
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