I did a quick pass to Common Java Cookbook to update some of the version numbers. Current release version is now 0.12, and you can expect a 0.13 release on Monday that is going to remove most of the references to “Jakarta”. This book uses the following versions of components: Component Version Notes Commons Beanutils […]
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Release 0.10 – the book’s example project is now published as a ZIP file. There are some missing resource files that I will try to address in the next few releases, but all of the Java Source code that accompanies the book is now available as a Maven 2 project. (For more information about Maven […]
Dain is very much focused on "sexy" a static XML compiler with the name SXC. I'm sitting around a table of programmers asking each other things like, "tell me about sexy". http://sxc.codehaus.org SXC looks pretty interesting.
Same thing as this last post, but a different JAR. I was encountering the endless Tomcat restart due to jgroups-2.2.8.jar – remove the dependency, everything works perfectly. I love (hate) Eclipse.
Today, I recorded my first podcast, you can see the result over on the Sonatype blog. In the first minute, I sound like Wharf from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and during the book update I just sound like a jerk. I’ll be regularly making an ass of myself for “Sonatype Week in Review” over […]
I had to create a simple little Flex countdown timer, so I stumbled upon thie post from Flex Examples. I took that source and expanded it a bit to create a configurable CountdownTimer component. Now, I’m sure there’s an even easier way to do this, but this seems to do the job for me. Here’s […]
I’ve been having really good luck with the Israfil Maven Flex 2 Plugin. Thanks to the template that Jacob von Eyben cooked up.