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Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development


Struts Action 2.0.0

If I had known Struts 2.0.0 was complete, I might have done something different last weekend. Instead, I spent too much "free time" learning JSF. It was fun of course. I enjoy learning new technologies and so I might have to repeat the excercise with Struts 2.0.

Roller's web UI is based on Struts 1.2, so you'd think Struts 2 would be the obvious upgrade path. But Struts 2.0 is really not an upgrade of Struts 1, its a whole new thing. In case you don't know, the Struts team took an entire different, and some say much better, framework called Webwork and rebranded it as Struts 2. So you can't really migrate a Struts 1 app to Struts 2; instead you're basically porting your app to an entirely different framework -- potentially a giant amount of work. We need to think carefully about what to do with the Roller UI.
Tags: Java

Apple repair turn-around time

The Apple support guy told me that mail-in repairs typically have a five to seven day turnaround time, but increased "back-to-school" load could mean ten days. I'm not sure if that's good or bad compared to other companies, but it's a long time to go without the trusty laptop, that's for sure. In case you're googling around for info on Apple repair turn-around time, as I was last week, here's my experience. [Read More]
Tags: mac

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