Struts 1.1 RC1 To Be Released Soon
The Struts Committers are voting on a release plan for a 1.1 Release Candidate. Lots of +1's so far, so I'd expect it in the next couple of days. The release plan says tomorrow is the code freeze date.
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Struts Training (Darn Cheap too)
If you're looking to learn more about advanced features of Struts, you might want to checkout BaseBeans's upcoming training. I received the following e-mail in my Inbox this evening.
Announce: "*Best Practices in Struts - Web Training*" by Cekvenich, Husted, and Turner and a presentation by Momjian on PostgreSQL. (each a published author) Struts 1.1 might be released in March, so every Saturday at 10:30 AM Easter, watch and hear presentation via WebEx.com. Meeting # Date Title 616291003 1-Mar MVC Intermediate Setup 614301419 8-Mar MVC View for CMS/Contact 611367121 15-Mar MVC Ted Advanced + DAO Lab 611903740 22-Mar MVC Bruce pgSQL + Multi Row Lab 611213868 29-Mar MVC - Turner + Options/Nested (once you connect via PC, telecom phone is 1-408-964-1050) This presentation is almost FREE (other than the cost of WebEx), the sooner you register, the cheaper it is. A week of training by others could be $2400! Plus travel costs. Plus they did not get voted best, baseBeans.com did! Register and pay at: http://www.basebeans.com/do/classReservation Cost of all 5 sessions + labs (8 hours for each session) is .... $155 if you pre-register, or $275 if you late register and $475 if you register in March. Labs (on your own time, hours each) include: Multi Row Updates, Validation, Tiles, Navigation, EL, Nested, Options, CRUD, etc. full agenda was published. Each lab is at least 8 hours and required, if you do not do the labs, the next presentation will not make sense, no pretenders here. No money back for this, other baseBeans.com presentations are money back!
I'd sign up, but Saturdays are reserved for Julie and Abbie.
Wrox Chapters: Round II
I, like Dave, have been working my butt off all weekend to try and get my Wrox Chapters edited and returned by tomorrow. Can you imagine my jealousy when I say his post this morning saying he was done?! That bastard!! ;-)
As you can see, I've returned to mismanaging my time (i.e. blogging). I've finished the 2nd drafts of my Wrox Professional JSP chapters. The reviewers seemed to like my 1st drafts, especially the Performance and Debugging chapter, but that did not stop them from making hundreds of comments and thus burning two perfectly good weekends.
Dave - you had two weekends!! I'm even more jealous now! I only got one - think it had something to do with me turning my first chapter in a week late, and the second one in 3 weeks late!? Probably...
Oh well, I just finished my security chapter, and while it did eat up my entire weekend - I greatly enhanced it to be a much better chapter. Just as an indicator - it went from 21 pages to 40! Now it has a lot more examples and includes how-to's for configuring Tomcat's Realms (MemoryRealm, JDBCRealm, JNDIRealm and JAASRealm) and for implementing "Remember Me" functionality. The realm stuff was pretty cool - I setup OpenLDAP and was able to get that working with a JNDIRealm and also hooked a JAASRealm into the workgroup that my Windows machines belong to. As for the Remember Me feature, I figured out that I didn't need half the code I was using - which is always a good thing - making it much simpler to implement and understand. Tomorrow I'm taking the day off in hopes of finishing the Struts chapter. Wish me luck!
Is Sun going to die soon?
Not if it merges with Sony, according to this article. Hmmm, sounds like it might actually work. Another way to "bet the company" is to make Java open source, but that probably wouldn't produce any revenue. How about buying/marketing/selling JBoss? Hmmm, not much profits there either I bet. There's got to be something that folks are still willing to buy in this God-forsaken piss-poor economy... What could it be?
One way to do that is through a merger, but the logical merger partner isn't Apple, it is Sony. The two companies have been talking about some kind of strategic alliance. Maybe these are merger talks. Sony is incredibly strong, having just posted its biggest-ever profit. Sony leadership is changing, making possible a bold move as the new management tries to put its own stamp on the company. Sony has both the resources to support Sun and the need for technology Sun can provide.
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RE: Who reads them anyways....
Laurent Michalkovic has an interesting post on the fact that no one reads the specs. I read them two years ago, that's right - in December of 2001. I read all of the ones that that interested me at the time: JSP 1.2, Servlet 2.4, J2EE 1.3 and EJB 2.0. I downloaded them all and printed them out and read them. It was boring and cost me around $150 just in printer cartridges. They had good information, they're just dry. Luckily, I was very motivated to read them. I was studying for the Web Component Developer exam from Sun, so the JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.4 specs were essential reading. I read J2EE 1.3 and EJB 2.0 shortly thereafter while studying to become a BEA Certified Developer. Interesting thing about the BEA exam, I ended up concentrating on WebLogic-specific stuff to pass the exam. Not much on standards, mostly questions on server configuration, clustering, etc.
I've skimmed through the latest ones, but I haven't read them page-by-page cover-to-cover. Besides, the mere size of each will scare you off:
- Servlet 2.4: 309 pages
- JSP 2.0: 458 pages
- J2EE 1.4: 242 pages
- JSTL 1.0: 219 pages
- JSF 1.0 EA: 117 pages
That's a heckuva lot of reading. When studying for these certifications, I also picked up Professional Java Server Programming J2EE, 1.3 Edition by Wrox. I actually thought this was a great book and I learned a lot more from it than I did from reading the specs.
Interestingly enough (or maybe not at all), I also bought (and read) J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server. However, the BEA Documentation site turned out to be a better resource than that book!
RE: Which servers support HTTP Digest Authentication
I did a bit of digging today to find out which J2EE servers support HTTP Digest Authentication. Here's what I found:
- Tomcat: Yes. How do I know? My own experience, and this documentation. Why can't they just state this in Tomcat's documentation?
- JBoss: Yes. How do I know? An earlier comment. Since JBoss can be configured with Tomcat and Jetty, this question is only applicable to those servers. I couldn't find any Jetty documentation indicating support, but I trust the users. Finding any information on JBoss is a real pain in the ass, I hate PDFs.
- Resin: Yes. This documentation says so. This documentation and finding the answer was the easiest yet. Of course, the manual testing on Tomcat was pretty easy too.
- Orion: No. How do I know? An e-mail I received from Nicholas Clarke, who tested it on Orion 1.5.2. Here's the message he received:
Auto-deploying file:/usr/java/orion/wwwroot/antiaction/ (Assembly had been updated)... Error initializing site Alternative: Digest-Auth not supported Orion/1.5.2 initialized. I couldn't find anything on the Orion site indicating support for the different authentication types. Their documentation on web.xml seems to be a regurgitation of the DTD. - WebLogic: No. They've always had excellent documentation, making this a breeze to find.
- WebSphere: No. How do I know? the 5.0 docs say so. BTW, I had to really dig to even find this documentation. Makes me glad I don't currently develop on WebSphere.
- Sun ONE: No. Easy to find due to great documentation.
- JRun: Who knows. I gave up searching for this documentation after 10 minutes. BTW, looking through JRun's technical whitepaper I found that "XDoclet has been tightly integrated into JRun 4." Very cool!
That seems like a waste of a good hour for a feature that no one ever uses. Oh well, at least you've been edumacated.
Roller's Wiki - where's the RSS Feed?
I noticed that on JSPWiki's demo site there's an RSS feed. So my question is, why isn't here one for Roller? http://www.ecyrd.com/JSPWiki/rss.rdf
works for JSPWiki, but a similar URL (http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/rss.rdf) doesn't work for Roller. Is the Roller Wiki an older version that doesn't have this feature.
Speaking of Roller, I've updated this site to cache everything to disk, rather than in memory. Hopefully this will result in a more stable site.
Spotted: Nice Roller Theme
I stumbed upon the :: Introspection :: blog this morning, written by Jeff Haynie. I really dig Jeff's theme, and that's the reason for this post. Jeff - any chance you want to donate that sucker to Roller's out-of-the-box themes collection?
Netscape's DevEdge Reborn and cool style switcher
Zeldman reports that Netscape's DevEdge has been reborn. I really dig the style switcher via the button at the top right - as well as the font buttons.
Netscape's DevEdge has been reborn as a standards showcase: “Now DevEdge is not only a great source of tools and information for developers, it demonstrates extensive use of web standards for accessibility, maintainability, and user interaction.” Features include tableless, CSS layout; switchable styles, one of which includes a header graphic that hearkens back to the original DevEdge of the mid-1990s; cross-browser dropdown menus (these dont work in IE5/Mac, but IE5/Mac users have been provided for); and link URLs that print out for your convenience. Eric Meyer contributed to the redesign and more information is available on his site.
Is there an Instant Messaging API for Java?
I got to thinking on my way into work this morning - is there an Instant Messaging API for Java. I suppose it would help if there was an IM standard, just like there's an e-mail standard (SMTP). I suppose that Jabber is kinda close. Here's why I'm interested. There's a few things I get e-mails on now that are simply "notifications." For instance, Log4j errors, Anthill build notifications and comment notifications from this site. I'd love to be able to program these to call a more configurable messaging system - so I could set it to send me IM's or possibly even SMS messages (the problem with SMS is it costs $$ now). I suppose I could setup a Jabber server and use their API to send messages, but I'm hoping this is already done for me. It'd be slick to parse an e-mail address and based on whether it's @hotmail, @msn, @yahoo or @aol, it'd send it through the appropriate gateway. Anyone know of an API that makes with as easy as sending e-mail with JavaMail?