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Janice Campbell's Weblog: Independence Day

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:36:22 +0000

Today is Independence Day in the US. Families and friends gather together to barbecue, swim, play sports, picnic in parks, eat watermelon, enjoy each other's company, and watch fireworks displays.

The founders of this country fought for people to be able to think freely and pursue their beliefs without repercussions.

Today, I honor Amaury Rodríguez Pérez, a developer and NetBeans fan from Cuba, who, because of US export laws, is unable to freely download NetBeans. My hope is that one day the political issues between our two countries will be healed. Hope for equality, liberty and justice around the world.

Amaury and his son Adrian showing off the NetBeans 6 and Translation Team tshirts.

Bistro!: Blogging at 300 km/h

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:36:02 +0000

It's not even Wifi. I love being a geek!

Adam Bien: The Synergy Between Operations And Development, Or Why Glassfish Takes Off

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:54:35 +0000

It seems like the software development process is driven by developers :-). Fast booting, text-based configuration, IDE-integration and hot deployment - or better no deployment are key to developer acceptance in appserver market. Small footprint and modularization can be derived from the previous requirements. Nonetheless, the development phase ends with the delivery of your software to your customer - and so operations. Often developers choose "lightweight" application servers for development - and deployed to application servers maintained by the operations. The problem is: although with Java EE 5 there are no more problems with porting an application from one server to another, but the servers can still behave different. So there is always some fraction here.

The operators prefer application servers with good monitoring capabilities, easy visual administration (or easy console administration - it really depends on the company) - but just don't care about boot times, hot deployment etc. Glassfish is the first, server I know, that tries to satisfy developers as well as operations. And it is opensource on top... It is small enough to use it for your day to day job, and it can scale to an enterprise system. Furthermore - Glassfish comes with excellent monitoring capabilities, nice visual console - even the documentation is directly accessible from the admin console ...as PDF. This is what administrators like - but it is still possible to configure Glassfish using XML and command line interface.

By scaling, I do not only mean "throughput", but deploying EJB 3, WebBeans (Seam), JCA, JMS connectors etc. if needed as well. Also the acronyms sounds scary, it is really easy to access e.g. an SAP system via JCA (or JRA), or communicate with a mainframe via JMS. Btw. even really simple applications are easier to build with EJB 3, than without.

So, "Tomcat Today, Glassfish Tomorrow - or I would rather say: Glassfish v2 Today, Glassfish v3 Tomorrow :-)". And...even Rod Johnson likes Glassfish :-).

Bistro!: DZone article on GlassFish

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:03:59 +0000

I quickly slapped together a GlassFish article for DZone. It mainly focuses on the current GlassFish v2 release. Somehow in the process of publishing this, it didn't come clear that I was on the GlassFish team (although it was clear to the editor I exchanged emails with). I wonder if the rather very favorable comments would have been the same if my role had been better advertised. I've updated my profile to make my affiliation clear.

cld: Gadget of the Week : City 2.0

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:45:00 +0000

This week's Gadget-of-the-Week is a emerging as technology-rich, carbon-light, alternative energy version that is City 2.0. More...

NetBeans Community Docs Blog: Últimas Contribuciones

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:30:28 +0000

Surprised!

No need to be, its meant for Spanish NetBeans Users! ;-) I am just joking, actually in English, we say Latest Contributions! Yes, time has come again to update you about the latest from the Community Docs Program.

Lets give a warm welcome to NetBeans Dream Team member - Aristides Villarreal Bravo, for contributing Spanish version of an already existing platform tutorial, written in English, based on Visual Library API!

Tutorial de NetBeans Visual Library en Español

Also, there have been some more contributions over the past few days, post FY(07-08)! You may have a look at them, and as always you are the ultimate judges, so use the tutorials, tips and Tricks, FAQs and comment/suggest what ever you feel like?

Happy NetBeaning!

Geertjan's Blog: Further with Spring RCP

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:09:41 +0000

In addition to Getting Started with Spring RCP, I've now also written Getting Further with Spring RCP. It's pretty interesting what Spring RCP can do for your Swing applications. This part covers Spring RCP dialogs, the Form Builder, and rules based validation, with this result:

I'm looking forward to getting even further with it...

cld: Two New Articles : Java/Scripting Language Mechanics, Using JMaki and PHP

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:21:00 +0000

Two new articles on scripting languages. The first discusses the mechanics in Java to interface/integrate scripting languages and Java. The second article offers a tutorial/article showing how to use JMaki, PHP, MySQL to build a web app. More...

Lukas Hasik's Weblog: NetCAT 6.5 - invitation to the program

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:45:11 +0000

This message shouldn't be missed by those that would like to influence the NetBeans 6.5 release quality. It was sent to nbusers mailing list

 Hello folks, NetBeans IDE 6.5 is approaching its stabilization phase and we are glad to extend to you an opportunity to participate in our 2 months NetBeans 6.5 Community Acceptance Testing (NetCAT) program [1]. With NetBeans 6.5, we have incorporated many features requested by the community. Just to listen the biggest and most noticeable ones: * Scripting languages support (PHP, Ruby, Groovy, JavaScript) * Enhanced DB tooling and improved integration with MySQL * Background compilation, new Generic Language Framework APIs * Support for custom
      project structures * New UML drawing area control * and much more... Now we need your help. If you have an experience with NetBeans and want to contribute some time and effort, go for it and register [2] now! We are looking for 60 dedicated users willing to help NetBeans 6.5 become the best IDE. Applications are being accepted until next Monday - July 7, 2008. Each participant committed to providing timely feedback during this program will be given a chance to significantly influence the quality of the NetBeans 6.5 release. Besides, there are some gifts prepared for all helpful members. Ready to contribute? We look forward to hearing from you! Best regards, Jiri Kovalsky NetCAT 6.5 coordinator [1] http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/65/index.html [2] http://qa.netbeans.org/processes/cat/65/application.html

Adam Bien: OSGI Was Supported By Sun Long Before J2EE...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:38:06 +0000

It's actually funny, or tragic. Sun started in August 1999, the Java Embedded Server 1.0 product (JES) for residential gateways.
In May, 2000 JES 2.0 software became even OSGi compliant. I gave some workshops in 2001 / 2003 timeline, but actually no one was really interested in OSGI at the time.
Why Sun is just not waiting for about 10 years, until they announce their products? :-) The same (tragic) story, like with JavaBlend and JINI... Sometimes it is interesting to delve into the history of Java.