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Roller 2.0 looks good! Dave has posted some screenshots of Roller 2.0. I have to say, the new UI is a big improvement, both with colors and fonts. I hope to try 2.0 out today and hopefully get it installed at Virtuas in the next week or two. I can't wait until this release is installed on JRoller - it'll be very cool when many people can participate in a SourceBeat blog. Nice work Dave!

FWIW, I plan on hanging out in #appfuse and #roller on irc.freenode.net this week. Stop by and say hi if you have questions about either project. Posted in Roller at Aug 16 2005, 09:32:11 AM MDT Add a Comment

Equinox on Resin 3.0.14 Yesterday I moved demo.raibledesigns.com from Kattare to Contegix. The main reason I moved is because Contegix is much more responsive when I have issues, as well as Kattare's server was incredibly slow to startup Tomcat. The move went pretty smoothly, but I did run into a couple issues - caused by moving from Tomcat 5.0.28 to Resin 3.0.14. The issues were only in one application - the MyFaces version of Equinox.

The first issue was that the corejsf-validator.jar that I'm using (for client-side validation) contained an invalid TLD file. It was easy enough to fix as it was missing a <short-name> element. This is the 2nd issue I've found with this library - obtained from David Geary's Core JSF book. The first issue is that Spring's Ant-style patch matching doesn't work when this JAR is in the classpath. Anyone out there using a better (less buggy) library for client-side validation in JSF?

The 2nd issue was that MyFaces depends on commons-el.jar, which is shipped with Tomcat. Not so with Resin. Adding this JAR to my WEB-INF/lib directory solved the problem. I've committed both changes to CVS.

Below is a full listing of the sample apps I have installed on this server. The one app that I didn't move is Struts Resume. I'll be moving that one to appfuse.org today.

I'm open to adding more, so let me know if you have one you'd like hosted. Of course, I reserve the right to refuse suggestions based on my interest in the functionality they're demonstrating. ;-) Posted in Java at Aug 16 2005, 08:50:27 AM MDT 4 Comments