Sometimes you take things for granted, they are what I would call “technical truisms”. Some examples? Well, you are most probably intuitively expecting that the various Web Services stacks out there will interoperate, that the next.gen CPU to be released will be faster than the previous generation and that using a Mac will make you look way cooler than if you had to carry a disgracious 5kg laptop.
In the same vein, you would probably expect JSF to smoothly integrate with “the” other obvious Java front-end specification, Portlets, right? Well, slow down cow-boy, we actually had to wait for a dedicated spec to solve that limitation (!). That’s what I learned recently while chatting with Thomas Heute (JBoss Portal product lead) about Seam’s level of integration with JBoss Portal.
That “freedom spec” is called “ Portlet Bridge Specification for JavaServer Faces ” (Early Draft Review 3) and has been i...
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Flight of the ConchordsFrom: sacha.labourey.com
Post Date: 2007-11-27 12:48:16
Not sure if you know the band “Flight of the Concords”, they are very good and very funny.
You can find many of their filmed performances on Google Video, here is a good one:
But do you remember what you said to me?
Not word for word actually, Jenny, but I remember there were some verbs…
And if you are a true romantic, this one is for you:
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more Who is (really) driving Eclipse?From: sacha.labourey.com
Post Date: 2007-11-16 05:58:29
There’s recently been a lot of interesting news about Eclipse.
First of all, the Eclipse Foundation has been elected on the SE Executive Committee of the Java Community Process (JCP) . A few years back, nobody would have guessed such a thing could happen (not simply that of being elected - but that they would actually run for the election in the first place). It is going to be interesting to see what role the Eclipse Foundation intends to play on the JCP-EC given th...
more RHEL just tripled the size of its ISV ecosystem!From: sacha.labourey.com
Post Date: 2007-11-14 02:19:36
Red Hat (RHT) made several important announcements this week: the launch of its “Linux Automation” strategy [ 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ] and [ 4 ]. While the related media coverage was pretty good, most articles perceived it much as a tactical announcement, while it was in fact a very strategic one. Let me show you why.
Genesis
But first of all, some history… Picture a planet where “Linux” would be a mere kernel and Linux users would pretty much run their own...
more Q&A on RHT signing the Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA)From: sacha.labourey.com
Post Date: 2007-11-09 01:00:13
We announced this week that we had signed the Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA) as well as the Java SE TCK agreement. Looking at the numerous articles that popped-up left and right, very few remained strictly focus on what this announcement is really about: making sure we have a strong, high-performance, certified FOSS JVM available in Fedora and RHEL. And the OpenJDK project is the best and fastest way to get there, end of story.
If you are interested to know more details about t...
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