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Dave Johnson on social software, open source and Java

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Friday Jun 21, 2002

Redhat does J2EE

Red Hat CMS [Content Management System] is delivered with the source code and is J2EE compliant, allowing easy extensibility and customization of the implementation by Red Hat, or by the organization's own developers.
Excellent! I'll add that to my list of open source Java CMS sofware. The license sure looks like open source. Via BeBlogging via Rebelutionary via rc3.org

Leo Michael Johnson


Baby Leo
I'm very happy to announce the birth of Leo Michael Johnson - our third son. Leo was born at 1:45pm on Friday June 21, 2002, weighed 9 pounds 11 ounces, and measured 22 inches long.

Leo will join the Roller project as the VP of Human Resources and has already started a major new personnel initiative. He wants to push back project schedules across the board so that all Roller team members can enjoy more family time. He has my full support!

Open source Java e-biz

Mike's post about open source Java workflow engines highlights a trend I've noticed recently. You've heard a lot about open source Java software at the tools level - class libraries, appservers, IDEs, code generators, and build tools. But recently, open source Java has been moving up the chain - towards the business application area. You won't find a complete and ready for deployment open source Java e-biz solution yet, but you will find some key components.  Here are some of the pieces:

Business Processflow/Workflow
OSWorkflow
Powerfolder
Open Business Engine
OFBiz Workflow Engine

e-Business software suite
Open For Business Project
Content Management Systems
RedHat CMS (added June 21)
Cofax
Slide

Portal servers, search engines
Jetspeed
Lucine