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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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[ANNOUNCE] Tomcat 4.1.24 Released!
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.
Life as a Contractor
This weeks sucks to be a contractor. It's a 2-day week and that's all I'm getting paid for - 2 days. Damnit, wish I was full-time. Then again, if I were making the big bucks, 2 days would be plenty to pay the mortgage. Alas, I am not - and I'm tempted to work this weekend. What the hell is wrong with me - work on the weekend?! I make fun of my friends when they work on the weekend - now I'm a hypocrite. I have a to do list that makes my weekend boring as all getout:
- work 10-12 hours at day job
- add user administration to struts-resume
- release appfuse
- finish new design prototype for client
- release displaytag (no one else seems to want to do it)
- clean the house before Julie gets home
No wonder I miss Julie and Abbie so much when they're gone - I sit in front of the fricken computer all the time! When I get out of the house (or simply off the computer), I find I miss them much less (it's been almost 2 weeks!). I might have to scrap my to do list (save the paid part - item 3) and get off the damn computer. Booking happy hour and ski dates shortly... ;-)
Home, Next, Previous Bar in Opera, Mozilla
I discovered this one by accident today, but I think it's a pretty cool feature. This site (wonder if it's using gallery) has the following HTML in the <head> of its photo album pages.
<link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Home" /> <link rel="prev" href="index2.html" title="Back" /> <link rel="next" href="index4.html" title="Next" />
In Opera 7, an Opera-based bar magically appears at the top of the page, with the "Home", "Previous", and "Next" buttons enabled. Same thing on Mozilla, but only if you have the Site Navigation Bar enabled (View -> Show/Hide -> Site Navigation Bar). I also discovered that you can change the location/display of the Opera Navigation Bar at View -> Navigation Bar. I've verified that this does not work on the following browsers: IE/Win, Camino, Safari, Phoenix.
So what's the big deal - why are you writing about this? Because I think it gives a nice way to integrate workflow into a web application. You could probably put JavaScript in the "href" attribute's value to submit a form and guide a user to the next step in the process. Of course, you should still add appropriate buttons/links to your pages, but it's a nice UI for replicating choices for your users.
DBUnit has released version 1.5
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.
Blizzard 2003 - Round 2?
I heard on the radio this morning that there might be another storm coming through next week. There was even talk that it might pack the same punch as the one this week. I certainly hope so! Now I just need to find a way to get myself snowed in at one of the ski resorts. ;-)
It snowed a bit more last night and it was snowing this morning when I came into work. Breckenridge got 8" last night, so hopefully we'll get some good skiing in tomorrow.
J2EE 1.4 Installs just fine on OS X
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.
Clustering Tomcat 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.
Apple to use Intel Processors?
Erik reports that Apple may switch from Motorola to Intel processors.
Dvorak: Apple will go Intel in 12-18 months.
Puleeze let this be true! I'd love to buy my next Apple and have it run on an Intel (3 GHz?) processor. Even better, I hope Microsoft makes VirtualPC as fast as a PC. Or will I be able to install Windows/Linux on a Intel-enabled Mac? That would be sweet!
Sun offers JBoss J2EE Compliance Test
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.