Blogging Roller

Are there really going to be any smack-downs? I'm betting it's gonna be pretty mild. I'll blog the comments that provoke the smack-down bell. Webwork - Jason Carerra

• "We're not desgined by a committee"
• "You have to join the JCP and press the spec meat"
• "You have to have a tool to deal with the 18 JSF configuration files"
• "JSF, which hasn't been out for a year, is telling us about maintainability?"
• "Yeah, use the JSF extensibility to create a spyware component"
• "(Geary's mailbox is so full because) people are confused by MyFaces"

Struts Shale - David Geary

• "JSF is a lot better Struts and a better Webwork"
• "Struts is old school, get over it" (he asked for the bell, but didn't get it)

Wicket - Martin Dashorst

• "No framework makes it as easy to create components as Wicket"
• "With Wicket you only need to know the extends keyword"

Tapestry - Howard Lewis-Ship

• "It's not Struts++"

JSF - Ed Burns

• (too nice to provoke the bell even once)
• "You don't care about maintainability, use Struts" (shoulda gotten the bell, but didn't)

Audience

• To David Geary: "Why did you steal Springs web flow?"

OK, I missed a couple, but you get the idea. Those guys were waaaay too nice.

• Sun Ultra 3 laptop
  Cool, but where's the AMD lappy?
• JavaOne photos
  Lots of good photos on Flickr
• PhippsCasting
  Simon Phipps on the open sourcing of the Java EE 5 reference implementation
• Danese on Java license proliferation
  Danese: "Yes, that's right. They've taken the SCSL apart into 3 licenses!!!"
• Ed Burns on day 2
  Covers the web framework (Faces, Wicket, Struts, AJAX, etc.) related sessions on day 2
• iTunes Podcatcher
  iTunes is now a full-fledged podcatcher

I finally found the bandwidth (and the time) to upload the Roller 1.2 release. The full Roller 1.2 announcement is on the Roller project blog.