This article made me laugh out loud.

Axis is gone???

IBM pulled out sometime late in 2002, and the project has been healthy and developed ever since.

You know what they say about publicity....

If anyone out there is a good J2EE developer, looking for an interesting project to work on as a permanent, pop me an email.

Experience with Struts, Tiles, WebSphere, DB2 are a plus....

developer works has an article on specifying the target server for j2ee projects in WSAD 5.1.1

On Java Tips

I know, YAWAF.

I've had a fleeting look @ shocks, and posted some suggestions to the mailing lists. The lead developer is very open to suggestions, and keen on improving on Struts and WebWork.

Today Plumtree announced this initiative along with Documentum, Sun, and BEA.

The Sourceforge site looks very interesting.

I've heard about java server faces for a long time now, and so far it's been nothing exciting, and shrouded in mystery.

Today I found JSF Central, which looks like a good resource.

I saw Stephen Stelting's presentation on JSF at CSS 2003, and there were some good samples he showed there

I'm still not in the convinced camp yet though. It seems there's no compatibility between JSF and Portlets, which doesn't make any sense. Also requiring a servlet to be configured seems a little ugly.

I wonder when it will go public final?

There's been a lot happening on this front lately.

I caught Dave Lander's session on portlets at CSS 2003 recently.

That prompted me to go checkout the Reference Implementation being done @ Apache, and the corresponding Eclipse Plugins.

There were also a couple of implementations closely following the spec to be released too.

Also, the rewrite of command handling for Struts, Chain looks like it is supporting portlets as well.

Standards do mean something after all!

While at CSS2003 last week, I found MockRunner which is a lightweight framework for unit testing applications in the J2EE environment. It supports Struts actions and forms, servlets, filters and tag classes.

I don't know if we can use it for our environment, as it seems like a fair bit of extra set up work, but interesting to know about anyway.

Just got back from the Colorado Software Summit, which was an interesting week.

While I was there I met, eat with and saw in action Gary Ashley Jr.'s session on the struts controller servlet.

He was a good speaker, and it was an interesting session.

There were lots of people at the conference using Struts, and we all shared similar pain.

Hopefully the conference proceedings will be made available online at some point.

Simons keynote is available as a PDF here

Simon Phipps presented yesterday on the economics of Open Source, which was very interesting.

I'm hoping Wayne puts the material online after the conference for us all.

I also asked Simon if he could help us with distributing Sun's jars from ibiblio as part of Maven. Fingers crossed he can help out.

I'm in the U.S. at the moment at the Colorado Software Summit.

The highlights so far have been updates on what's in JDK 1.5, the new metadata facility for Java (coming in 1.5), and XSLT 2.0 stuff.

I'm here presenting on Maven and Jelly.

Saw [Google Tag Library] in my email inbox today.

Good for public sites and open source projects.

While adding some powered-by sites to maven today, I stumbled across
a cool looking tag library.

Yet to use it, but it certainly looks the job.

Another beta of the infamous httpclient has been released.

Just in case u missed it , here it is complete with lightweight internet download.

See this for more detail

Here is a cool tool, which checks for duplicated code. It's fast and plugs into CheckStyle.

As part of the promo for their book, David Jordan and Craig Russel of JDO fame are doing an online forum thing on JavaRanch. Go Paul.

Commons FileUpload 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available

You can find it Tapestry: here