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This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.
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I discovered (via Hibernate's site) that new versions were released on Friday. I always seem to miss these announcements. Looks like I get to do a bit of upgrading this week. Tomcat, Hibernate and the Display Tag Library. Upgrade or feel the pain in few months - that's how I look at it.
Simon Brown was nice enough to whip up an application for testing the display tag library. Amazingly enough, it passes all the tests! At first glance, Simon's TagUnit seems to just test getters and setters and if classes are loadable. I think these are great tests, but for truly robust tests for the display tag, I think we need tests that test specific behavior (i.e. you click on a column heading and it sorts that column). IMO, WebTest is probably the best candidate. The problem is, it might take awhile to write these tests, and no one seems to have much time to work on the display tag project. Any volunteers? ;-)
I spent the last 5 minutes upgrading this site to Tomcat 4.1.24. It was pretty simple; here's what I did:
The manager application looks like it has been improved to allow for easier deployment. It now offers you more, clearer choices and you don't have to remember the cryptic syntax for deploying a .war file. Now it's just browse and submit. Let me know if you see any issues.
Update: I still can't get the "admin" application to work, but I never use it, so not a big deal. It hasn't work on past versions of Tomcat either. Currently, it gives me the following error:
HTTP Status 503 - Servlet action is currently unavailable
At least that's what Erik reports (it's not reported on Jakarta's site). [Download · Release Notes] I especially like the part about it being significantly faster than 4.1.18. I'll have to upgrade in the near future.
I'm using DBUnit on all many of my personal projects (appfuse, struts-resume, security-example, day job) right now and I really dig it. It makes things so much easier. Mainly I've been using it to populate a database with default data, and haven't made my JUnit tests depend on cleaning/inserting. Today I've decided to tackle this issue (clean, insert, run test) - so I trotted on over to dbunit.org and discovered a new version (1.5) was released at the beginning of this month. I'm hoping (haven't tried yet) that I can do an export and CLEAN_INSERT and my task will be finished.
BTW, I dislike the case of the name "Dbunit" and I prefer "DBUnit," so that's what I'll be typing it as - hope you don't mind.
I downloaded the Linux version of the J2EE 1.4 Beta today to install on OS X. I found that it installed flawlessly with the following nice little message:
[minime:~/Desktop] matt% ./j2sdkee-1_4-beta-linux.sh Using /var/tmp as temporary directory... Searching for Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition... Initializing InstallShield Wizard... running on mac
Cool! Now to see if I can get the Adventure Builder reference application running on the Mac. I also found this interesting article on the new JSP and servlet capabilities in J2EE 1.4.
Filip Hanik posted a message to the tomcat-user mailing list today about How To Cluster Tomcat 4. It's Beta quality and requires JDK 1.4.
From CNet News.com, Sun reaches out to JBoss.
Sun last week offered JBoss Group the opportunity to license a set of testing tools to see if JBoss software adheres to the Sun-sanctioned Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification, said Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist. If the JBoss Group's Java server software passes the compliance test, it can gain certification of J2EE compliance.
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Phipps [Sun's chief technology evangelist] said he doubts that JBoss software will pass the compliance test. Basing his opinion on public information, he said, JBoss software does not appear to implement all of the J2EE specification. Phipps also noted that JBoss appears to be using software written by Sun.
"I predict that now that we're calling their bluff, they will make up another excuse for not doing the tests," Phipps said.
Go JBoss, I hope you kick butt on the test and pass with flying colors. I've been working with Open Source appservers (not to mention other products) for a couple of years now, and IMO these products seem to be much higher quality than commercial products. Granted, most of the documentation sucks, but that's where experience comes in and makes you a valuable developer. I believe that many developers root for the commercial products because of the time that they've invested in learning them. That's how I used to be with iPlanet. Too bad that time was mainly invested in gaining knowledge of how to write workarounds for appserver bugs. I'm all for open source and I'll recommend it to any clients I have.
Invest in good developers, not your application server. Knowledge is power.
Dave is optimistic about our Wrox Chapters. We received an e-mail over the weekend stating that we should wait a week or two to see how things shake out. My guess is, if we wait, nothing will come. Just a hunch. I've seen a lot of empty promises in my career and this definitely feels like one. I really, really hope it's not though. Thanks to all for the encouraging words about this book - I hope you can read it someday, and I also hope I can get a kickback from neglecting my wife and child through the Christmas Holiday. If all else fails, at least I won't be so excited about writing a book next time (if there is a next time) and maybe I'll learn to just say no.
Julie suggested I just post them on this site. Then I got to thinking - what if all the authors made a PDF version of the book, and it was downloadable as the whole thing or as selected chapters. Let's say $5/chapter and you can pick and choose whichever ones you want. Sounds like a good idea, but the problem would be protecting the PDFs from being shipped around between friends. Or we could just give them away, in hopes that our knowledge would inspire others to hire us (as in a new job or a new book).
I don't know what to do, but I'd like to get my chapters out somehow. I'm afraid that if I just sit and wait, they'll never get out, and the technology will be old news shortly. The stuff I wrote about has staying power, but only until the next version of XDoclet and Struts.
I guess the good news is that I'll keep struts-resume up to date with the latest version, but the writing will be out of date by the end of the year.
