Blogging Roller Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-03-23T14:54:34+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/sun_web_developer_pack_r1 Sun Web Developer Pack R1 with RSS and Atom goodies Dave Johnson 2007-03-12T21:20:29+00:00 2007-03-13T16:14:04+00:00 The <a href="http://developers.sun.com/web/swdp/">Sun Web Developer Pack</a> (SWDP) finally <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/introducing_sun_web_developer_pack">uncloaked</a> today, so I can talk a little more openly about what I and my Java EE co-workers have been working on. You can get the full scoop at the SWDP site, but basically SWDP is a bundle of technologies to help developers build &quot;Web 2.0&quot; or next-generation web applications on the Java platform. Ajax, scripting languages, REST and of course RSS/Atom are all part of that. The RSS/Atom bits are ROME 0.9 (Beta), Blogapps 2.0 (Early Access) and a ROME-based Atom Server kit based on code from Roller.&nbsp; There are also example Atom server implementations in the REST API and Phobos components of the pack.<br> <p>I&#39;m pretty excited that we&#39;re putting some resources behind ROME and that both <a href="https://rome.dev.java.net/">ROME</a> and <a href="https://blogapps.dev.java.net/">Blogapps</a> are part of SWDP R1, but I&#39;m even more excited about the next release. In R2 we&#39;ll drop the Atom Server Kit and Blogapps BlogClient and we&#39;ll replace them with <a href="https://rome.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&amp;msgNo=2282">ROME Propono</a> a brand new Atom protocol client and server library that we&#39;re getting ready to contribute to the ROME project.</p>I haven&#39;t had a whole lot of time to experiment with the various components in the pack, but I have played with <a href="https://phobos.dev.java.net/">Phobos</a> and I think it&#39;s pretty compelling. Phobos is a &quot;lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment.&quot; It&#39;s not just for creating server-side JavaScript applications, but that&#39;s the angle the I find interesting. So many developers are creating JavaScript/Ajax applications these days that working in JavaScript on both client and server-sides makes sense -- especially when you can debug into JavaScript code in your IDE as you can with the Netbeans Phobos module. Also note that the <a href="https://ajax.dev.java.net/">jMaki</a> Ajax components work with JSP, PHP <i>and</i> Phobos -- jMaki and Phobos look like a winning combination.