Blogging Roller

Via Roumen, the JBoss Netbeans IDE is available with support for EJB3/JPA. The announcement is on the JBoss site, downloads are on the Netbeans site.

So now there are two easy ways to get started with EJB3/JPA and both are based on Netbeans: 1) JBoss Netbeans IDE and 2) Netbeans 5.5 plus the Enterprise Pack, which includes Glassfish/Sun Java App Server. Currently, both IDEs are based on Netbeans 5.5 beta 2 but don't let that scare you away.

I've been using Netbeans 5.5 beta 2 on my Solaris box for a week or so now and it's quite stable. On my Mac, not so much -- beta 2 worked fine until I installed the Enterprise Pack and then I started to get all sorts of slow downs and very strange repaint problems in the tree-view. I upgraded to a Q-Build (the 20060818 one) and now it's quite usable -- still a little sluggish but then again everything seems sluggish on my Powerbook these days.

Linda Skrocki: I had the pleasure of inviting Shel Israel, author of Naked Conversations, to join an internal Sun conversation with Sun folks who own or manage various Sun social sites/participation age content (employee blogs, alumni blogs, forums, podcasts, customer reviews, etc.). We were interested in gathering Shel's perspectives of how we're doing in this space. Following are a few quick notes I took about his observations

Shel had some good advice for us, but also told us that Sun is so far ahead of other companies in terms of business blogging that he looks to us for future direction. And by the way, my copy of Naked Conversations just arrived along with a stack of Ruby and AJAX books. I've got time to read again now. I'll start with Shel and Scoble.