Raible Designs

www.mail-archive.com

If you're doing development on an open source project, I recommend that you get your mailing list archived by mail-archive.com. It's pretty easy to setup and offers a nice google-like search interface. I recently added struts-apps, struts-menu-user and the display tag lists. I hope this makes it a lot easier for folks using these applications. I might even add Roller, but I figured Dave could handle that if he really wants it (it's already being done by gname anyway).

Either way, gname or mail-archive.com, if you're using a SourceForge mailing list, you'd better get a better archiving system b/c SourceForge's sucks! Why? No searching! What good is an archive without searching?!

JSPWiki's RSS Feed

JSPWiki has a pretty slick RSS Feed. If you subscribe to it, it will show you the diffs for the pages that have changed since you last updated the feed. Now that is cool! All wiki's should have this feature IMO. If you're running JSPWiki, and you don't have an RSS feed, I think it's time to get one (hint, hint).

The next Denver JUG meeting is going to be good

I'm really pumped to attend the next DJUG meeting on Wed., July 9th. There's going to be a celebration for being selected as a top 25 JUG, and Sue Spielman is going to be covering what's new in J2EE 1.4. It should be a good time for sure - who's up for beers afterwards?

[Display Tag] Now we're talking...

We're starting to get some real activity over on the display tag library project. I have to admit, I've done nothing - which is why it's even cooler that other folks are. Mathias joined the team and went on a rampage squashing bugs and formatting code. Then along came a guy named Fabrizio (no blog) who re-wrote the whole thing ~ demo. Even better - it's XHTML and CSS compliant.

There's even an editable table prototype being looked at. John York (no blog) has also done a lot in re-writing the library, and has his own version that I'm hoping to post soon. Nice work gents!

[ANNOUNCE] Hibernate 2.0.1 Released!

The Hibernate Team never stops producing. They've released 2.0.1, which fixes the following bugs:

Changes in version 2.0.1 (17.6.2003)
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* fixed some problems with new dialect-specific LIMIT clauses
* improved parsing of collection where attribute
* made one-to-many bags more efficient (they are really sets!)
* allowed type="calendar" for  properties
* fixed a bug with locking a versioned composite-id class
* refresh() may now take a transient instance
* added ProxoolConnectionProvider (Martin Crawford)
* fixed some minor JCA issues (Mike Mosiewicz)
* fixed a bug with FETCH and sorted associations
* improved performance of SchemaUpdate tool (Teodor Danciu)
* fixed a bug in Configuration.addFile(String) (Ken Geis)
* tidied up and documented hbm2ddl package (esp. Ant tasks)
* deprecated CounterGenerator in favor of IncrementGenerator
* improved logging during initialization

Denver JUG - one of the top 25 JUGs!

I should start off this post by rubbing it in that the Denver JUG beat the Triangle JUG as one of the top 12 Java Users Groups - but that would be pointless. I would be trying to tease the guys I know involved with the TriJUG, while I only attend DJUG as spectator, rather than a contributor. So I won't, but congrats to both JUGs (and all top JUGs) - it's awesome that we both have such thriving communities in our neighborhoods. From the e-mail:

BENEFITS TO DENVERJUG
The selection of DenverJUG means members will receive some "premium" services from Sun, such as alpha and beta releases of new Sun projects (like the Java Rave development environment announced this week at Sun One). Other benefits from being in the Top 25 will be announced at the next meeting (July 9 - featuring Sue Spielman, currently Blogging from JavaOne).

[ANNOUNCE] XDoclet 1.2 Beta 3 Released!

From the XDoclet News page:

This is the last milestone towards our next big release. Over 130 bugs are fixed. For a detailed change log, please refer to XDoclet 1.2 Beta 3 Change Log.

Cool! Downloading now...

15 minutes later: I suspected this as soon as I saw the download. You'll need to download XJavaDoc 1.0 along with this release. I installed this release (+ xjavadoc) in my appfuse-based project at Comcast, and everything just worked. I dig it.

DeepBlack ~ Java-based weblog app

I found this gem on the Hibernate developer's mailing list this morning.

It's released under GPL, and I've been developing this for the last year or so and while I consider it a early beta, it's really got a lot of features, and I definitely believe it's a strong alternative to any webblog app out there, including Moveable Type.

DeepBlack is found here: http://deepblack.blackcore.com

And I do eat my own dogfood. To see it in action:
http://www.blackcore.com/blog

Looks nice Tim! And you gotta like this part:

Roller is another excellent blog program that's been gaining a good audience. I even admit to looking around the Roller code in the CVS every once a while for ideas.

Glad to hear we helped!

Customizing JSPWiki

I've installed JSPWiki on this server in order to better support collaboration among developers. In particular, I hope to get user's tips and tricks for my demos and downloads. However, JSPWiki out-of-the-box is ugly. Dave has done a good job in making Roller's Wiki look good. So here's my question: How did you do it Dave? Rather than digging for CSS files and what not - can you hook me up with the info. I'll try to document my customization process when it ensues.

vi plugin for Eclipse

I found this this vi plugin for Eclipse, thanks to the previous URL trail. It's kinda cool - it works - but it's a pain that you have to "load vi" each time you open a new file.