Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Port your BEA applications to JBoss. The JBossGroup makes available a free download to port your J2EE applications from BEA to JBoss3.2.x. The port utility currently only covers the conversion for applications running on BEA Weblogic 6.1 but is said to support more versions in the future.Since deploying J2EE applications to a different application server will only differ in the server-specific XML descriptors, like the one for the CMP functionality, the JNDI mappings, the DataSources, etc. that is what the porting utility focusses on. The features are : Automatically translates weblogic-ejb-jar.xml to jboss.xml Automatically translates weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml to jbosscmp-jdbc.xml Easy datasource configuration for entity beans (using the value provided in weblogic-cmp-rdbms-jar.xml prepanding 'java:/' if needed or specifying manually in the WebLogicConverter configuration) Easy datasource-mapping configuration for entity beans by automatically searching the mapping in the standardjbosscmp-jdbc.xml or specifying it manually in the WebLogicConverter configuration Conversion of CMP entity bean relationships Conversion of CMP entity beans RDBMS mapping MDB configuration conversion Supported by architecture/design: choosing the WebLogic server version to port applications from (only 6.1is currently supported) You can read the full announcement on the JBoss sitehere And you can download the utility from here. The download includes : User documentation on the porting engine and the converter An updated list of XML tags supported A complete example application [Welcome to the real world] 3:02:14 PM      comment []

BEA spins XML into Java code. The software company launches an online tool that's intended to make it easier for Java developers to work with Extensible Markup Language. [CNET News.com] 3:00:28 PM      comment []

IBM to unfold new Lotus products. Big Blue will demonstrate at its Lotusphere conference new e-mail software and technology to tie Lotus products with IBM's application server. [CNET News.com] 3:00:14 PM      comment []

Ceci n'est pas une pipe. Sean McGrath on reality distortion: Interesting (if mindbending) thread going on over at the W3C in the www-tag group. In this response to a message from Roy Fielding, Tim Berners Lee asserts that a URI identifies a web page - not just a representation of a resource at time t which may or may not be a web page (my understanding of the REST position on Web architecture). I was glad to see Tim Bray responding and consequently, I've cancelled my appointment to have my brain declared a reality distortion field. [Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon] ... [Jon's Radio] 3:00:09 PM      comment []

Conversations with an unemployed programmer... [I bla-bla-bla] 2:54:54 PM      comment []

January 25, 2003. A week of Murphy's Law gone wild. [Joel on Software] 2:54:02 PM      comment []