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The Unnamed Semantic Web Client - XUL+RDF based, can read. [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF]
I wonder if this could not be a good base to start a RSS aggregator in Mozilla/XUL.
I want to review the existing open source RSS news aggregator, and none fits my needs I'll develop one using:
- either Moz/xul for all
- or a java backend, and moz/zul for the UI
The advantage of the java backend is that it could run locally like Radio, or remotely on a server.
When will I ever get any time to do that !
12:29:46 PM Google It! 
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IBM announces 13 new members join Eclipse project. IBM has announced that an additional 13 vendors have agreed to join its open source project Eclipse, including SAP, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle, bringing the group's total to 30. The way IBM sees it, "Building your own tools platform would be the equivalent of building your own HTTP server," said Scott Hebner of IBM. "Why do that when you've got Apache?" [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community]
Forte will survive through Sun, but life will be tougher and tougher for BEA Workshop !
12:09:48 PM Google It!
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Sun faces renewed H-1B complaint. The Department of Labor begins an administrative law hearing into whether Sun violated regulations concerning the employment of foreign workers in the United States on H-1B work visas. [CNET News.com]
Economic crisis always lead to the temptation of protectionism in every countries.
I've worked one year for Sun in the US on a H1B visa (and 2 years for AOL before that) and I don't have the impression to have stolen the work of an american software engineer: while I was in the US I used to receive head hunters phone calls or emails almost weekly. I don't think I was cheap either :-)
I sincerely hope that Sun will not be harmed in this lawsuit. Working with the best and brightest engineers from all around the world in Silicon Valley was one of my most happy professional experience.
12:08:03 PM Google It!
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Sun to Ship Weblogic 7 with next Solaris 9 Update. Sun will ship a six-month trial copy of WebLogic Server 7.0 with the next update to the Sun Solaris 9 operating system, which is due in January. Sun ONE 7 is already included in Solaris. Analysts said Sun is making a concession to include Weblogic in order to satisfy customer demand and help boost sales of its own server hardware. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community]
I would not see that only as a concession: it is the real clear sign of our new Sun ONE strategy. Our gospel says: we have the Sun ONE stack, all its components are standards based. You can buy the whole stack, but you can also replace some components of it because they are standards based.
For the app server the standard is J2EE. You can use Sun ONE App Server 7 or WebLogic for the app server. Our Portal Server, the next element up in the stack, can sit on top of either of these app servers (I can tell you it's true because I'm the architect for this app server release of Sun ONE Portal and started the BEA version 11 months ago: it's out now).
You could argue that the Portal cannot be replaced because there are no standards in this area. Not yet, but we're working on JSR 168 with BEA, IBM and the others, to standardize Portlets. Once this is done, Portal servers will be standardized as well.
But did we need to go all the way to ship BEA with Solaris ? That's in line with Scott McNealy's strategy to see us as a systems company, nor hardware, nor software only.
I'm a software guy, so I'd like to see us go more in the direction of software, but I guess our revenues today come from hardware. It's the classic innovator's dilemna for big companies who need to cannibalize their existing market to enter the new one. Let's see where Scott's strategy will lead us.
11:55:30 AM Google It!
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New Job, Struts, Testing Frameworks and Maven
...The first is Canoo's WebTest. It basically is a framework built on top of HttpUnit that allows you to write all your tests as Ant tasks. It's fricken sweet as you don't have to really write any code, and it just worked for me. Check out this file (XML) to see how easy it is....
[Raible]
Discovered Raible's weblog: very interesting stuff there. Looks like he knows Sun ONE Portal Server, likes JBoss, Maven and Cactus. Great !
He just landed a new job: congratulations !
This Canoo WebTest seems great. I'll give it a try when I can.
Writing a test case declaratively like <invoke stepid="get Login Page" url="formTest?mode=demo" />
<verifytitle stepid="we should see the login title" text="Login Page" />
<setinputfield stepid="set user name" name="username" value="scott" />
<setinputfield stepid="set password" name="password" value="tiger" />
<clickbutton label="Login" stepid="Click the submit button" />
<verifytitle text="Home Page" stepid="Home Page follows if login ok" />
is easier than writing code.
Moreover once you go declarative, you can begin to build tools to generate the declaration.
One could build a Mozilla XUL based tool that would generate this XML based on an interactive testing session in the browser.
11:18:03 AM Google It!
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Bowstreet streamlines portal development. Tighter integration with IBM WebSphere added [InfoWorld: Web Services]
"As more enterprises elect to build portals based on complex application server cores, tools like the Portal Factory that help shield users from the bare metal complexity of development are becoming increasingly important, according to Nate Root, analyst at Forrester Research, in Cambridge, Mass."
The Portal server market becomes more and more an integration play. Bowstreet is not in the app server game, so they get closer to IBM. At Sun we play them all: our Portal runs on BEA, IBM, and Sun ONE.
And we have a Portlet builder as well, a plugin for Forte for Java.
Now I'm not sure we "shield users from the bare metal complexity" but my experience is that usually the IDEs that promise that let you design simple portlets good for demos, but anytime your portlet needs anything more than "Hello World", or "Hello Web Service" in this context, you have to read the javadoc and begin to code.
Would Bowstreet be IBM's next acquisition ?
10:51:33 AM Google It!
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IBM builds momentum around Eclipse. New members sign on to program, but not Sun or BEA [InfoWorld: Web Services]
There are 3 players left in the java IDE game: Sun, IBM and BEA.
With IBM having bought Rational, I think BEA Workshop is toast. Too bad it looked real nice. How long before they port it to the Eclipse platform :-)
10:41:41 AM Google It!
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Mono trudges on with .Net alternative. [InfoWorld: Web Services]
But they will eventually get there: this is one of the advantages of open source; as long as there are some interested developers, a project can reach its milestones, even if it's much later than initially planned.
With Miguel's Ximian, a commercial company, needing Mono to be complete to develop more stuff on it, this makes the milestones issue more important, but not as critical as for a closed source project from a regular commercial company.
10:34:05 AM Google It!
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© Copyright 2003 Patrick Chanezon.
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