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Today, the builder started tearing down the garage and pouring the foundation for the master bath. It's pretty cool that all this is happening during my week off!
 The Garage demolition begins... |
 There goes the roof! |
 Master Bath Foundation begins... |
 Styrofoam Moldings for the foundation |
I've been using Anthill for about a year now, and I think it's a kick-ass product. I don't really have any issues with the current version, but it's nice that there's a new release. If you're interested, you can view the release notes.
It's gonna be a good week. Yesterday, I gave a demo at my client and they loved it. Shortly after that, my sister (Kalin) flew in to town. She's here until Thursday and I'm taking today, tomorrow and Thursday off. Vacations during the week are very nice. We're babysitting Abbie today, so it should be a good day - especially with a stop at Chipotle for lunch.
In other news, construction on our house started yesterday. Here's a photo of part of the new foundation (for the master bath) getting dug. There's already been one casualty - our sewer line. Luckily, Bob the Builder was able to run to Home Depot and fix it for our house full of guests. We also talked to our new (temporary) landlord on Sunday. We got pretty lucky - our neighbors bought a new house and we're going to finish out their lease. So we're going to live next door to our house while it's being built. Pretty cool, huh?
In even bigger news, Julie submitted her resignation at Qwest last week and today is her last day. She got tired of Abbie getting sick at daycare and more so, she was bored out of her mind. Things will be a bit tight - COBRA is just over $1000/month and it's our only option since she's pregnant. Doh! At least we'll only need it until September/October (crosses fingers for a healthy baby).
This release involves many changes: re-arranging packages/directories
, Spring integration, Remember Me refactorings and I also added iBATIS as a persistence option. I also spent a lot of time going through the tutorials to make sure they are up to date. I've been using AppFuse 1.4 for a few weeks on my current project, and I really do like the way Spring makes it easy to configure Hibernate, Transactions and Interface->Implementation relationships. If you're interested in upgrading your AppFuse 1.x app to use Spring, you can checkout this howto.
I also made the leap and moved the AppFuse project from SourceForge to java.net. This is mainly so I have more control over mailing lists and adding other developers. As of today, CVS files in SourceForge and Java.net are the same - but I'll only be updating Java.net from here on out. I also have released files in both projects, but will only use java.net in the future.
(~11.5 MB for src, ~5.1 MB for bin).
I spent all weekend updating the tutorials and fixing release-related issues. Phew - I'm glad that's over. "So," you ask, "what's next?"
A week of vacation (my sister flies in tomorrow), followed by starting to write Spring Live and creating a Spring MVC option for AppFuse. Oh yeah, I'll also be at SD West in Santa Clara, CA - let me know if you plan on attending.
Last weekend, we headed to Tucson, Arizona to visit with family. Here are some good pics from the trip - and one of Abbie with her new kitty.
 Cool Trainyard |
 El Charro |
 Saguaro National Park |
 Abbie giving Zoe a kiss |
One of the issues with using XDoclet to generate your Struts ActionForms (from POJOs) is that out-of-the-box, your Forms will not support indexed properties. This means that if you have a List on an object (this list will likely contain other objects/forms), you have to extend the generated form to add the necessary setters for indexed properties. For example, if you have an addresses List on a PersonForm, you would need the following in order to edit those addresses in Struts.
setAddresses(int index, Object address) {
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The worst part is that you need to populate the addresses list with a bunch of empty AddressForm objects before Struts' auto-population will succeed. If you were coding the PersonForm by hand, you could code a reset() method such as the following:
public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) {
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Now for the best part - I figured out how to generate this code with XDoclet, so any lists on your Forms will be indexed-property ready. By using <nested:iterate> in your JSP, you can easily CRUD you indexed properties. Pretty slick IMHO. The template is a bit much to put on this site, and it's long lines won't fit in a <pre> - so you can temporarily view the template here. I'll add a link to it in AppFuse's CVS once it shows up there. One thing you'll notice in this template is a little Velocity-lovin':
<XDtVelocity:generator>
#set( $method = $currentMethod.name)
## trim off the 'get'
#set( $objectName = $method.substring(3, $method.lastIndexOf('s')))
</XDtVelocity:generator>
Thanks to Erik on Merrick's blog for the quick Velocity/XDoclet howto. It was especially helpful since the XDoclet site has no documentation on this feature.
For all you my framework is better junkies - a clear explanation of how your framework handles indexed properties would be appreciated.
I just got an interesting SMS message from AT&T:
AT&T Wireless: Sony Ericsson and AT&T Wireless have sent you a new T226 phone to replace your current T68 - no strings attached. Questions? Call 800-500-3821.
Wierd eh? Is there something wrong with the T68i? I'll admit that the T226 looks a bit nicer, but when I get a new phone - I'd like to go all out. In other words, I'll be talking to Russ to get his recommendation.
From the struts-dev mailing list:
The Struts 1.2.0 Test Build is now available here: http://www.apache.org/~martinc/struts/v1.2.0/ This is the first Struts build being made available following the same test-and-release process that has been used successfully by the Tomcat team for some time. It is *not* an official Apache release. Once feedback has been collected on the stability and general quality of this build, a determination will be made as to whether it should be promoted to Alpha status.
You can reference the Struts site for a list of what's changed since 1.1. To further assist you (if you're upgrading from 1.1), you might want to check out how I did it back in October. I tested this build with AppFuse and all tests pass - I didn't even have to change a single line of code. For that reason, this is now the Struts version that'll ship with AppFuse 1.4.
I had lunch today with Jay Zimmerman of No Fluff Just Stuff. I always enjoy getting together with Jay because he's from Montana and Montanans are generally nice folks. Among other things, he asked if I would be interested in speaking at a NFJS event or two. I said I'd think about it. However, I'm strongly considering it since it would probably be a good marketing tool.
I probably wouldn't do any events until sometime this summer. Now I just have to figure out what I'd speak on...
I dig Dunstan Orchard's blog theme. I especially like his comment alert system and right-nav tabs (main, b-marks, b-roll). There some inspiring stuff here - adding a similar comment alert system and theme are on my Roller wishlist. Now if I could just find time to do them...
Later: Some more cool designs.