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Tuesday, December 17, 2002

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    comment []

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    comment []

Really cool Eclipse demos.... [James Strachan's Radio Weblog]
12:00:48 PM    comment []

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    comment []

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    comment []

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