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Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

[TSE] Domain Driven Design with Eric Evans

I've arrived at The Spring Experience, 45 minutes late for the first talk. I tried to get up early, but decided I'd rather get 6 hours of sleep instead of 4. I'm now sitting in Eric Evans' Introduction to Domain-Driven Design talk and the room is packed. I've never seen Eric talk before, but he seems a bit unprepared. His PowerPoint presentation is not in full-screen mode, so you can see where he hasn't finished slides and such. He's also very soft-spoken and seems to have an interesting way of convincing the audience his ideas are good. I feel like I'm sitting in some sort of NPR Seminar.[Read More]

Posted in Java at Dec 08 2006, 08:37:28 AM MST 1 Comment

In Boise, heading to Florida on Thursday

This week, I'm in Boise, Idaho teaching a Spring Fundamentals course. It's cold here, just like it is in Denver this week.

Downtown Boise

I'm heading out early Thursday morning (Country Bry is teaching a Hibernate class that day) for The Spring Experience in Florida.

The Westin in Hollywood

I'll be staying with Julie's Mom in West Palm Beach, so hopefully the commute to the show won't be too bad. My AppFuse session is on Saturday night, but I'm expecting a light showing after Terracotta's recent announcement. Jonas Bonér is doing a session at the same time as mine. Maybe if I bring a bunch of beer, I can still draw a crowd. ;-)

Posted in Java at Dec 05 2006, 08:12:41 AM MST 1 Comment

Facelets 1.1.12 Released

From Jacob's blog:

Facelets 1.1.12 was just uploaded to Java.net and includes many small bug fixes for JSF 1.1 (MyFaces 1.1.4) and JSF 1.2 (RI 1.2_03b5).

Download Here

This release is considered 'draft' until users call it stable for production use. More information is found over at Facelets' web site.

In most cases, when an open source project says "more information can be found on our website", you expect to go to the website and see more information. Not so with Facelets. All I could find was this announcement. How about a detailed list of bug fixes?

Update: I found the magic link on the mailing list which I subscribe to with Nabble's RSS Feed.

Posted in Java at Dec 02 2006, 11:48:47 AM MST 1 Comment

Timelines in OmniGraffle

Earlier this week, I needed to create timeline graphics for my What's new in AppFuse 2.0 presentation. I found a Timeline script for OmniGraffle and was able to create some pretty nifty images with it. Below are the two timelines I created, one for the History of AppFuse and one for The Future.

History of AppFuse

The Future of AppFuse

I'll be delivering this presentation at our seminar later this afternoon. With free knowledge and a complementary happy hour afterwards, why would you miss it? ;-)

It looks like Denver weather will make it interesting for attendees to get downtown. Hopefully most folks will take the light rail in. That's my plan.

Posted in Java at Nov 29 2006, 03:03:55 AM MST 7 Comments

Spring's "p" namespace and AppFuse Performance Tuning

After seeing Rod Johnson's post about Spring 2.0's "p" namespace, I'm wondering if it's something we should include in AppFuse? I don't think it's quite as intuitive as <property name="">, but I'm curious to see what users think. The biggest reason against using it is (AFAIK) neither Eclipse nor IDEA will give you code-completion on (whereas they will for <property name="">).

In other news, Matt Fleming has an excellent writeup on how he optimized AppFuse (Spring MVC flavor) to handle pages with large forms. His form was 38 MB worth of HTML when saved to disk so I doubt everyone will need this, but it certainly is interesting information. If there's enough demand, we'll make Matt's suggestions available options in an upcoming release.

Posted in Java at Nov 28 2006, 03:02:13 PM MST 4 Comments

Free Seminar: Lightweight Java for 2007

If you happen to live near Denver, you won't want to miss our Lightweight Java For 2007 Seminar this week. It starts this Wednesday at 1:00 PM. We'll be doing talks on JPA, Spring 2.0, JSF + Ajax and AppFuse 2.0. The seminar is free and should be a good opportunity to learn about what's hot in Java these days.

All attendees will receive a complementary copy of a book on Java Technologies, seminar materials, and will be entered into a raffle for an iPod and other great prizes! Directly following the event, join the Virtuas gang for complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres at Rock Bottom Brewery from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Posted in Java at Nov 27 2006, 04:00:00 AM MST 1 Comment

AppFuse developerWorks articles in Chinese

Thanks to Technorati, I found that Chinese articles on AppFuse happen to be some of the most popular on IBM developerWorks. Not only has 7 Simple Reasons been translated, but another article titled ?? AppFuse ???? J2EE ?? ("AppFuse quickly built using J2EE Application" according to Google) was written just last month. It's great having non-English speakers using AppFuse - it insures we have excellent internationalization support!

Update: I'm aware the Chinese characters didn't come through on this post. I'm working on getting the MySQL database powering this site to support UTF-8.

Posted in Java at Nov 20 2006, 02:22:15 PM MST 3 Comments

How can Nabble be improved?

I recently received the following e-mail from the founders of Nabble:

You are the first person (literally) to recognize the value of Nabble. So far, Nabble has been well received. But it needs more users. There are a lot of open source projects archived on Nabble, but how do we go about letting people know about us? We would like project owners to link to us and skin us like you did with appfuse, but I am not sure how to do it. You know many people in the open source world, so we would really like to hear your thoughts and advice.

For example, should I go and announce Nabble on a project list? If so, should I do it on the dev list or user list? Is this considered OK or spam? Or should I contact the mailing list owner by private email? What nabble feature do you consider most useful to the project owners?

My response to the first paragraph:

I would suggest e-mailing project owners and pointing out projects like AppFuse and Maven that've taken the time to "skin" their forums. I'm guessing you could get some real good traction at Apache because they like to keep everything on mailing lists. People like your forums because they can post (and subscribe to) a single message. AFAIK, you can't do this with any other mailing list archive. Maybe you could write an article for TSS or InfoQ that tells all the features and highlights projects that are using it.

As far as announcing Nabble on a project list, I said:

I would do it on the dev list, but sending private e-mail is probably OK as well. I don't think it will be perceived as spam. Sending it to the dev list might skip a step for the project founder. You could also offer to "skin" forums for folks - so it looks like their project sites. I think the most useful feature for end-users is search and easy browsing. It's *much* better than the archiving/browsing tool that Apache uses.

One thing that might attract for folks is vanity URLs. I don't know if it's possible, but something as simple as appfuse.nabble.com might be attractive to some people, or having some sort of path-based URL, for example archive.nabble.com/java/java.net/appfuse. That way it'd be easier for folks to "guess" the URLs of mailing list archives.

What's your advice? What should Nabble do to get more users? Maybe if folks new about Nabble's RSS feeds, they'd use it more. I'm currently subscribed to Maven, Wicket, Shale and Stripes, just to name a few.

Posted in Java at Nov 18 2006, 12:10:52 AM MST 11 Comments

AppFuse at the Denver JBoss User Group

Last night, I presented "Seven Simple Reasons to use AppFuse" at the Denver JBoss User Group. I was definitely surprised to present this talk to a packed room of developers. One person joked afterwards that there might've been a lot of Microsoft folks there, all fearing that Vista was going to doom their future. It was at a Microsoft building, so I guess it's possible. This presentation is similar to my developerWorks article with the same title.

Download Seven Simple Reasons to use AppFuse (PDF, 6.3 MB)

If you're interested in learning more about Lightweight Java technologies, Virtuas is hosting a free seminar later this month. After the seminar, we'll be sponsoring a happy hour at the Rock Bottom Brewery.

Posted in Java at Nov 17 2006, 03:32:46 PM MST 1 Comment

How do you get open source frameworks past the red tape?

From an e-mail I received earlier this month, with a subject of "Acceptance red tape":

After requesting permission to use the Spring Framework for the business logic and data access layers of an application, how do you fight something like this? Spring is not an approved Framework for the ********** environment. We understand the benefits of the framework. However, we have not certified it in our environment. Additionally, we have concerns that this framework will not gain long standing traction among the J2EE community. We would like to reduce the number of frameworks used in our environment, and do not want to be left with "legacy" frameworks that have little acceptance or support as is the case with the pico container. This is a response from one of our clients after asking about the use of a framework in our development after another vendor had used the PicoContainer without their permission. We have Spring experience and we love it. My responses have been to ask what they have certified that we could use and to ask their business staff to override their tech staff. I'm caught needing to redesign an aging J2EE application with an awfully over-architected original design confined to EJB 2.1, JSP 2.0, Servlet 2.4, and JDK 1.4.X in a very short amount of time. The additional responses were that they have only certified Struts and although both the business staff and the tech staff admit they know the benefits of Spring, neither of them are allowing us to use it.

My response:

Wow - I don't know what to say, especially when they say "Additionally, we have concerns that this framework will not gain long standing traction among the J2EE community." They're probably using Struts and they thinks it's wonderful, eh? ;-)

I could compose a long response with lots of details, but the fact that they prefer EJB over Spring is baffling. Spring is so much easier to program with, it's not even funny. Granted, EJB does have its place, but it's often used as a hammer for a problem that doesn't exist.

Have you experienced similar "Acceptance red tape" in your company? If so, how did you work around or work through it?

Posted in Java at Nov 16 2006, 08:04:24 AM MST 31 Comments