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 Kito D. Mann's Blog
Where are the Conversations?Posted by kito75 on May 11, 2009 at 09:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)First, I want to say I'm extremely excited about JSF 2.0, and I think it's a major leap forward for the framework. That being said, there's one thing that's been bugging me for a while: no built-in support for conversation scope. (For those who don't know, "conversation" scope is shorter than a servlet session and longer than a request, and is popular in frameworks like Seam, Spring Web Flow, MyFaces Orchestra, etc.). Read the full editorial at JSFCentral. Shale in the AtticPosted by kito75 on May 11, 2009 at 08:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)In case you hadn't heard, Apache Shale is moving to the Apache Attic. What is the Apache Attic? It's a new project, started last year. It's where other projects go to die. According to the Apache Attic site: It is intended to: * Be non-impacting to users It is not intended to: * Rebuild community Basically, if your community is dead or dying, your project is a good fit: Projects whose PMC are unable to muster 3 votes for a release, who have no active committers or are unable to fulfill their reporting duties to the board are all good candidates for the Attic. So, it looks like the Apache Shale developer community wasn't even strong enough to put out a release. I noticed things were quiet last year when I did a talk on the Shale Test framework at JSFOne -- the latest release was available, but no one had bothered updating the site. If you're using Shale, don't worry too much -- as the above quotes state, the purpose of the Attic is to be "non-impacting" to users. Unfortunately, even though you'll still be able to get the bits, you can kiss any hopes of bug fixes goodbye. Read the full editorial at JSFCentral. Oracle and Sun: JSF Comes Full CirclePosted by kito75 on April 20, 2009 at 01:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)So, the big news today is that Oracle is buying Sun. This is definitely the biggest thing to happen to Java since it's original release (not to mention the rest of Sun's portfolio). Overall, I believe Java is in pretty good hands. Oracle has bet their entire non-database business on Java. It's their lingua franca, the basis of the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack, which includes the entire BEA portfolio (WebLogic, Tuxedo, JRockit, etc.), JDeveloper, Coherence, and tons of other development and server products. More importantly, Fusion Middleware is the technical foundation of Oracle's next-generation Fusion product line, which includes their original business applications, plus PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JD Edwards applications. Read the full editorial at JSFCentral. Public JSF Training in April: NYC and LondonPosted by kito75 on April 02, 2009 at 07:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)If you're about to start a JSF project, or feel like you need a better grounding in the fundamentals of JSF, now is the time. My four-day public JSF in Action training course is running twice this month: April 21st-24th in New York City, and April 28th-May 1st in London. If you need JSF training this month, or later in the year, check out these links. You'll be glad you did. Check out great JSF, GWT, Seam, and other talks at the TSS Java SymposiumPosted by kito75 on February 26, 2009 at 07:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)The TSS Java Symposium will be held once again in fun-loving Las Vegas at the Caesars Palace. This year, there are four excellent tracks: SOA, Architecture, Languages, Tools & Techniques, and Frameworks. I'm the track chair for Frameworks, and I think we've put together an excellent lineup: * Open Source Portals: Free Application Infrastructure (Kito Mann) We built the session list based on current trends and feedback from previous conferences. If you're building a web application, working with Hibernare, EJB, or Spring, there's something here for you. And that's just the Frameworks track. The other tracks have goodies such as testing, REST, troubleshooting, Advanced Spring, Clojure, DSLs, Groovy, Scala, JRuby, JAX-RS, Mule, Apache CFX, and more. You should definitely check out the show. And, let me tell you, Las Vegas is a great place for a conference...  |
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Kito D. Mann is an enterprise architect who has developed applications with a wide variety of technologies on several different platforms. He has been working with Java since its debut in 1995, and has written several articles on Java-related products and technologies. Kito has consulted with Fortune 500 clients, including Prudential Financial and J. P. Morgan Chase & Company, and was recently the chief architect of an educational application service provider. He is also the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning) and the founder of 
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