http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/ en-us 2008-03-07T22:24:12-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2008/03/3_years_later_m.html For the impatient readers I just wanted to announce the release of the Guilder POC which can be found on its wiki: https://madplanet.com/trac/guilder which intends to be a replacement for Maven 2 taking the cool features of Maven 1 and... schaefa 2008-03-07T22:24:12-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/08/to_the_hell_wit_1.html After several futile attempts to get my deployment units to log to Glassfish I finally figured out to use Log4J in Glassfish which is not really well documented there. So that is what I had to do: Place log4j.jar... schaefa 2007-08-28T11:41:01-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/08/to_the_hell_wit.html Based on the success of Log4J Sun for sure had to go ahead and add its own version of it as JDK logging making our life miserable. I was complaining a lot about that at the LA-JUG but today... schaefa 2007-08-28T06:33:27-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/05/javaone_2007_is.html After I could build the bundle and the repository I am now able to do what I wanted to do a year ago. Bug 6313849 is an enhancement request to add a disconnect() method to the URLConnection class so... schaefa 2007-05-12T00:48:48-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/05/opensourcing_ja.html JavaOne is nearly over and it was a good as well as a bad convention. One of the things that stroke me was the fact of registering for a session and then standing in line for it. Considering the... schaefa 2007-05-11T15:48:33-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/05/java_developers.html Last night I went to the Java 3D / OpenGL Bindings BOF and in all the locomotion I forgot to pick up my fairly new MacBook Pro after asking a question. After the next session I suddenly realized it... schaefa 2007-05-11T10:36:23-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/05/openjdk_here_i.html Ditching the Keynote session at JavaOne I am sitting in the Alumni room and trying to get my head around the OpenJDK. Having a MacBook Pro I cannot download the JDK and build it on my Mac natively and... Community: JDK schaefa 2007-05-10T12:27:24-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/05/ejb3_and_glassf.html I just had a nice discussion with John Clingan, product manager on Glassfish, about EJB3 and Glassfish in particular. One of the thing that strikes me with EJB3 is that Sun seems not to be able to let go... Community: Java Enterprise schaefa 2007-05-08T17:05:23-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/05/javaone_6_years.html It is six years since my last trip to San Francisco to attend JavaOne and boy has my agenda changed since them. Back then I was working on JBoss and there was a huge fight between Sun and the... Community schaefa 2007-05-08T04:40:18-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2007/05/openjdk_who_is.html The only question remaining: Is OpenJDK really open-source? ]]> Community: JDK schaefa 2007-05-04T21:48:16-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2006/04/jdk_community_u_1.html Rather than bitching about problems this time I want to take the opportunity to congratulate Sun for the JDK community project and the progress they made. Now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel where Java could become an open-source project. Community: JDK schaefa 2006-04-05T13:22:34-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2006/03/aop_the_sanitys.html Greg Hamilton blogged about AOP: Madness and Sanity talking about where and where not to use AOP and I nearly threw up, figuratively speaking, of course. Primary AOP is a concept that wants to relive the developer from some of the constraints of traditional OOP. I say traditionally here because J2EE is some sort of a AOP light framework already using some of the AOP concepts even though it is not really AOP by any stretch of imagination.

]]> schaefa 2006-03-08T14:39:01-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2006/03/jdk_community_d_1.html Yesterday Ray Gan blogged about the JDK Community listing some of the facts about the Peabody project. If you never heard about that project then you are not alone and I only now about it because Joshua Marinacci gave a presentation about it at the LA-JUG last year. But even without knowing about the Peabody project is became a JDK contributor last year in November and started to code a fix for bug #6212146 which I has sent to Sun for a review by the end of November. I got an initial confirmation that the bug fix was received but that was all I heard from Sun for a long time. Then January 2006 Ray blogged about the state of JDK Community and I responded complaining about that I got no feedback from Sun about my patch. A little bit later I finally got an email from Michael McMahon (1/31) that they started to look into the patch. I also spoke with Matt Ingenthron from Sun about it and he tried to find out what is going on and to bring some more transparency into the JDB Community. Needless to say that I did not get any feedback since then

]]> Community: JDK schaefa 2006-03-08T13:31:02-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2005/12/a_short_review_1.html my original concerns about Maven 2 after I attended a presentation by Carlos Sanchez at the LA - JUG last night. In this blog I discuss the points that make me stay with Maven 1 so far but I hope that most of these points can be resolved in the future.]]> Open Source schaefa 2005-12-07T14:30:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/schaefa/archive/2005/11/convenience_kil.html The decision by the Ant development team to put the junit task archive (ant-junit.jar) into Ant's lib directory without the junit archive is maybe convenient but caused me to waste some time to figure out why the same Ant script works on my box but not on my coworker's box. Both solutions outline on Ant's FAQ have their drawbacks and I think that this is another example where convenience is a good source to waste them on the long haul. Programming schaefa 2005-11-09T10:55:17-08:00