Tuesday, December 03, 2002

Sun expands its reach Sun expands its reach. Company remains firmly behind Sparc, eyes new markets [InfoWorld: Top News] 9:44:26 PM    comment []

Servlet Container Performance Servlet Container Performance. Web Performance has published a performance comparison of J2EE servers testing both servlet-generated and static content. Happily, this report doesn't include EJBs in the mix, just real web serving. [Servlets.com Weblog] Interesting results and no winner. Sun ONE shows different characteristics than the other because it never rejects any connections. I wonder if this behavior is not configurable though. Need to send that to my app server pals. 9:43:47 PM    comment []

IBM shares Collaxa's vision Workflow drives IBM's vision. Workflow drives IBM's vision - When you build network-based applications, by definition you're integrating capability in a network. And the more you can coordinate the transactions across them in a dynamic fashion, the more powerful the business integration can be. You can't do that without workflow [support]; it's all about workflow within a transactional context. We think these app servers are by definition going to become workflow engines. It's just a matter of evolution. Just like the app server has to be based on open standards, there's going to need to be a standard for how you flow behavior and transactions across multiple elements of the network. If [there isn't], the whole network model collapses. The question is, which one of those standards is going to be adopted and how is it going to evolve? Collaxa's Take:This is the observation that inspired us to start Collaxa two years ago. [Collaxa's Take] Good luck Edwin. Your product looks good, I hope you can reap the profits soon. 8:56:49 PM    comment []

how open can you be in a weblog ? Bravery, Honesty or Stupidity?. [Russell Beattie Notebook] Russ asks himself questions about how open he can be in his weblog. The issue has already been discussed by Ray Ozzie in a post a few months ago, when he started weblogging. Russ is too open, Ray very restrained. I'm still trying to find the right balance, but that's not easy. I guess it all has to do with your imaginary readership: when writing you always have some sort of internal representation of your readership, wether it is conscious or not. With weblogs, this representation is problematic. They are accessible right away to everyone, like a web page could you say. Add to that the dynamic group forming begavior allowed by RSS syndication and the picture changes: the shape of your readership becomes much more dynamic. Add to that Google and potentially /. Evaluating who will read a specific post becomes problematic. I need to dig this further. I don't have this problem anyway: I don't know who reads my weblog ;-) As for Russ: good luck finding the right balance, but don't become to corporate. i take a great deal of pleasure reading your ramblings because they have a fresh tone, even if I find sometimes that you go too far or are too vocal.     8:55:07 PM    comment []

JBoss the Next Apache?. JBoss the Next Apache?. An interesting editorial piece has been published that is suggesting that JBoss is becoming to the app server what Apache is to the web server. What does the J2EE community think? [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community] Go JBoss ! 8:45:24 PM    comment []

Sun deal to expand portal software Sun deal to expand portal software. Sun Microsystems has signed a multimillion-dollar deal to boost the wireless abilities of its portal software using products from start-up Aligo, the companies plan to announce next week. [CNET News.com] 8:41:16 PM    comment []

The power of the Maven Plugins approach Should I use Maven for struts-xdoclet?. Should I use Maven for struts-xdoclet?. James Strachan has encouraged me to use Maven for my struts-xdoclet project. I should give Dave some credit too, as he has also suggested this through e-mail. Here's my delimma, it'll probably take me anywhere from 2-4 hours to figure it out and integrate it. Does it buy me that much functionality to make it worth it? And my biggest fear is that it seems to help you produce a "project website" - that has a Jakarta look to it. I'll end up spending hours and hours tweaking the look and feel of that sucker - which provides no real value at all. But I'll do it because that's how I am. So to answer your suggestion James, I'm afraid to integrate with Maven, as I'm scared to create too much more work for myself with my already tight deadlines. Volunteers are welcome ;-) [Raible Designs :: We Build Web Apps] Actually I was suggesting that once your struts-xdoclet work was complete, it'd be cool if it could be packaged up as a Maven plugin. Then any project thats already using Maven would automatically get your plugin. Maven uses a plugin mechanism so that you can package up tasks, tools or scripts once and they become available to any other Maven user. e.g. Maven has plugins for JBuilder, IDEA and eclipse which auto-generate the IDE's project descriptors for your Maven project. There are plugins for JavaCC, Antlr, Clover and many other things, automatically available to Maven users. So having a struts-xdoclet plugin would sound like a great idea. If you're afraid though don't worry about it! :-). Just get your struts-xdoclet project complete and I'm sure someone else could package it up as a Maven plugin. [James Strachan's Radio Weblog] 8:40:49 PM    comment []

Sam Ruby has a Bias for Action A Bias for Action. ... The way that these disputes tend to get resolved in Apache is that somebody steps up to the plate and builds the darn thing as best as they can and solicits input in the form of "patches" (tangible suggestions in the form of working code).  The original code provided is generally not important - it tends to get refactored away anyway into oblivion.  What is important is that it focuses discussion into the form of constructive and tangible input. In this case, I have done exactly that.  List and source.  Patches welcome. [Sam Ruby] I like Sam's healthy pragmatic attitude. He showed it a while ago in a post in ant-dev when explaining the different hats and attitudes he adopted when commiting to a jakarta project. Can't find the mail anymore but I remember it vividly. I think it was during the sad polemics between James-Duncan Davidson and the rest of the ant commiters. 8:40:07 PM    comment []

Liberty Alliance Having Problems Liberty Alliance Having Problems [Slashdot] This is just Sun and Novell having a different view of Microsoft's strength in this market. I would not call that a big deal. 8:15:36 PM    comment []