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Monday Aug 26, 2002

Come to the dark side

In case Mike gets on me about using WebWork, I think I'm going to stick with Struts because of the resume enhancing potential, but I do have to say that WebWork makes a bit more sense to me than Struts. Niel via Rebelutionary via Russell

Personally, I think Niel should use Webwork in MiniBlog so that we can see how MVC is supposed to be done. If not, he should just come on over to the dark side and work on Roller ;-)

However, I do understand why a company might pick the more popular of what appear to be two equivalent technologies. The more popular technology will have more books on the shelf, more trained developers, more momentum, and more chance of long term improvement.
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The services layer

Bobby Woolf gave a fun and edutaining talk on services layer architecture at the Triangle JUG meeting tonight. The title was Patterns for Services Using EJB, but thankfully the talk did not really focus on EJB. Instead Bobby cracked a lot of jokes at Microsoft's expense, dropped Martin Fowler's name a few too many times, and talked about the history of and reasoning behind the layered architectures of the past and the relatively new services layer architectures of today.

Roller uses a service layer architecture, by the way. The Roller Business Tier interfaces (in org.roller.model) constitute the services layer.
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Sun-Dell merger?

Steve Anglin speculates about the possibility of a HP-BEA-Borland merger, a Sun-Dell union, and merger mania in the Java industry. [Steve Anglin's weblog]

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Greatest Java reference site

The site that accompanies The Java Developers Almanac is the greatest Java sample code site around. As such, it's probably the greatest reference site. I suggest buying the book. This looks like what the Java Cookbook should have been.[paradox1x]

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Private weblogs

Matt Raible describes how to create a private password-protected weblog in Roller [Raible Designs]

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Switzerland of dev tools

Borland intends to be a sort of Switzerland of development tools, supporting the two major programming models, the Java and Microsoft.Net development camps. [CNET] Does CNET mean to imply that Microsoft's $25 million investment was Nazi Gold? And just what is a "development camp" anyway?

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