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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Saturday, 29 June 2002

Wayback Cinema. If done right, this could be used to bring some of the closed independants back to life, eg the Valhalla in Glebe. Holy shit - did Brett just mention the Valhalla? That's seriously 100 metres from where I'm sitting right now at home (in Glebe - a cool, non-pretentious yet cosmopolitan, inner city, suburb of Sydney). It's a small world. 5:33:13 PM  comment []      Brett was looking for libraries to make a Java spider - and the ones he mentioned were OK - but WebSphinx is the best. (Granted it's Java 1.1 old - but updating it and turning it into a new OSS project is a good idea for someone out there) 5:30:28 PM  comment []      Added Gerhard, Brett and Julian to the growing list of Java and J2EE Weblogs - nice to meet you all. Keep sending them in guys, we're up to 18 now! 5:20:20 PM  comment []      SEDA is an event-driven architecture for highly scalable Internet servers (ie a web server or a mail server). The performance graphs (vs thread pooling and process forking) are quite amazing. Going to have to read the paper to find out more of the details. [via james strachan] 12:09:12 PM  comment []      JADE Open Framework RAD tool for J2EE Released - JADE looks very interesting, not least because of the IDEA integration. But something about building 'data connectors' in JSP via custom tags seems very ugly to me. I'll have to look closer. 12:00:55 PM  comment []      Opinion: Java to J2EE to Oblivion? - not surprisingly everyone in The ServerSide community doesn't think J2EE is headed to oblivion (neither do I). However the paper is an interesting read, summed up by one commenter well: Interesting, if slightly scary, article. It probably is a good idea to be aware of .NET's capabilities, even if it's only to argue for J2EE from a position of knowledge, rather than one of FUD. 11:53:32 AM  comment []      Scott is considering the iBook versus TiBook. I had this exact same debate in February when I bought my iBook and I'm sure I chose correctly. The TiBook (for all it's sexiness and speed) is just too damn big for me. I carry my iBook from home to work everyday, and it runs my entire email-and-blog-and-photogallery online life. Carrying that TiBook everywhere would be a PITA. The other major argument that people (Hani) always make for the TiBook is raw speed. It has a G4 not a G3. This is true enough if you're doing hard core development on it, or use it as your primary workstation - but I don't. For my email and blog (and both of these are major applications for me!) the G3 is fine. My $0.02 - I love my iBook. Now if only I could afford that dual G4 with Cinema Display for my desktop workstation... 11:49:36 AM  comment []      Glue, Gaia, Grid computing, Graham Glass and The Mind Electric. That's a lotta G's. John Udell says: Here's what I like most about Graham. I asked him how two Gaia namespaces would federate. "I don't know," he said candidly, "but I've learned that when the time comes to do it, I'll figure it out." Good answer! An Internet-scale grid OS is going to have to be bootstrapped like the web itself was. A peer-to-peer clustering fabric for web services, done in a style that's closer to SOAP::Lite than J2EE, is the kind of approach that could light the fire. [Jon's Radio] I couldn't agree more. I'm just dying to get my hands on Gaia. We're running Glue in our production environment at work now and I can only imagine the things we can do with Gaia. Hope the price is compelling as it is with Glue. [www.davidwatson.org] I agree - Glue is seriously good software and I want Gaia badly. Even if I don't know what I would use it for, it just looks cool.  And "TME" run JIRA - who couldn't like that? 11:37:46 AM  comment []      longbets.org. Somehow I just heard about longbets.org, a site where people can put their money where their mouth is when it comes to long range predictions. [rc3.org] Truly fascinating! I love the way it lists both parties arguments - see Craig Mundie (CTO, Microsoft) vs Eric Schmidt (CEO, Google) on pilotless long distance flights. Strange how most (all?) of the bettors seem to be high profile technology figures. 11:35:02 AM  comment []      Sun's posted the public review draft of the Java Servlet API 2.4 specification. Changes since version 2.3 include: Extensibility of Deployment Descriptors W3C XML Schema definitions of deployment descriptor Request / Response listeners ServletRequestListener, ServletRequestAttributeListener and associated event classes Can use Filters under the Request Dispatcher Required classloader extension mechanism Listener exception handling Request dispatcher / path matching rules Welcome files can be servlets Internationalization enhancements ) SC_FOUND(302) HTTP response code is supported Login/logout methods Comments are due by July 26. [Cafe Au Lait] 11:30:03 AM  comment []      Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files - very tricky, but I can't imagine that a technological solution to stop this 'spoofing' is very hard. Even if it's a collaborative filtering system where users indicate that they have been spoofed by a particular user. 11:17:25 AM  comment []      Wow - JIRA 1.3 beta 4 was released in under 24 hours from beta 3. Hopefully this will be the last beta in the 1.3 series - pending any serious bug reports. Feedback on the time tracking has been good so far! 1:07:19 AM  comment []