Blogging Roller

RSS and Atom in Action is not an open source book, but I've released the example code as open source and I'm going to be managing the code as open source project. The project is called Blogapps, because that was the original name of the book, and it's hosted at Java.Net. Currently the project distributes two packages [Read More]

• Enterprise Java Beans 3.0 / JSR-220 passes!
  EJB 3.0 even passes muster with the bile blogger.
• Using EJB3/JPA with Spring
  "The Spring Framework has added support for JPA."
• Tips and blogs on Glassfish EJB3/JPA
  Including articles on the standalone Java Persistence bundle
• Cayenne Proposal EJB3/JPA
  "Cayenne is currently building a JPA-compatible persistence provider (JSR-220)."
• OpenJPA Proposal EJB3/JPA
  "Open JPA will be an ASL-licensed implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA)"
• Hibernate EJB3/JPA
  "implements the public draft of the EJB3 persistence specification"

Josh is on his way back from Startup Camp so he won't be able to make it, but I'll be there. You know the drill.

You can tell by the frequency of "will Sun open source Java?" stories and rumors flying about that JavaOne is right around the corner. My talk is exactly two weeks from now, so it's time to stop blogging and start practicing

David Berlind recently blogged about using JavaDB (aka Apache Derby) to provide the browser-based persistence needed for offline AJAX applications. The downside is that you need a JVM in the browser, but the upside is cross-browser portability. Oh, wait. Maybe the JVM requirement is an upside (for a second, I forgot I work for Sun).

Berlind didn't mention the mozStorage project, which is adding the open source SQLite database to Firefox. According to the mozStorage docs, you'll be able to issue SQL queries from JavaScript in the Firefox 3.0 timeframe. The downside is that it's Firefox only -- or may that's the upside.

We finally switched over to using the org.apache.roller package name in the Roller codebase. In related news: Apache license headers have been added to all source files and our release files have been cleansed of LGPL dependencies. Perhaps we'll graduate after all.

Over the weekend, I put my finishing touches on the (last) two new chapters for RSS and Atom in Action. Tomorrow they'll both be off to copy-editing, typesetting and then to the printers for publication in mid-June.

I really lucked out in the reviewer category. Thanks to Walter VonKoch of Microsoft's Windows RSS Platform team, who not only answered my questions but kindly offered to review the Windows RSS chapter. And thanks also to former co-workers Pat Chanezon and Alejandro Abdelnur, who reviewed the ROME chapter.

By the way Alejandro is back from Asia, blogging again and already coming up with cool new APIs for ROME. Checkout ROME.Mano, a pipeline framework for RSS and Atom feeds.

Looks like WolfBlogs is live and my alma mater N.C. State University is blogging with Roller. I don't know the specifics of the setup, but I believe they are running on a cluster of Solaris/SPARC servers and using a pretty standard Roller configuration (i.e. Tomcat and MySQL).