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

Tuesday, 23 July 2002

O'Reilly has started up an Open Source Java Directory - this is something that is really needed in the J2EE world, but sadly it looks very poorly implemented. I've been saying this should exist for a while now. Freshmeat is just too non Java (apologies - FM is cool, but if you're just looking for Java stuff it's a pain in the ass). I tried to convince Floyd at The ServerSide to create a directory but was sadly rebuffed. I hope it improves. (oh, and I felt snubbed that none of the OpenSymphony projects were listed - so I have submitted all the major ones!) 5:29:49 PM  comment []      JIRA won Brett's Cool Feature Of The Day Award. JIRA 1.3.3 - RSS aware!. [rebelutionary] So, did it wind up taking longer than an hour? *duck* [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] Uhm, yes it did but then again JIRA isn't generating a simple RSS feed, it's actually got a full RSS API. You can turn any filter into an RSS feed. So you can filter and sort on date ranges, components, versions, fix versions, authors etc. Also it contains a lot more info than just RSS - so you can integrate JIRA into a REST application and actually pull useful data out of it. This is very cool! 4:33:34 PM  comment []      I forgot to mention that WebWork is now official part of OpenSymphony! Matt has done a fantastic job of converting over the docbook docs to HTML format and they are now all online. 11:01:56 AM  comment []      JellyUnit is looks interesting. There are so many ways to unit test stuff now, it's almost getting confusing! In house we use Cactus (through IDEAs JUnit integration) but are certainly going to start using maxQ too. [james strachan's musings] 8:14:52 AM  comment []      Anthony has put up JPublish 1.0 (also see TSS thread). It's like a simple CMS I think. I'm not sure I really get the free energy part of it. More reading to do. 8:11:25 AM  comment []      CollabNet takes wing for online games. The software development site announces that it is working with Butterfly.net, an IBM-backed effort to create a supercomputing grid for hosting online games. wow - cool! 8:08:14 AM  comment []