Struts 2.0 “Shale” is now a proposal. There are plans to include new features: IoC (Spring), authentication and authorization (here it’s my vote for Acegi Security System), and Java Server Faces JSF for presentation.
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Looking for the convenience of using Tomcat in a high volume, mission critical site I’ve found some references that may be useful to other people:
Clustering and Load Balancing in Tomcat 5. Part 1
Clustering and Load Balancing in Tomcat 5. Part 2
The book Professional Apache Tomcat 5 (Programmer to Programmer) seems interesting too, with chapters “Server Load Testing” and “Clustering”.
The only benchmark I’d found is Jakarta Tomcat Performance Benchmark at TSS but it’s from march 2003, very outdated. When trying to convince a boss to use Tomcat it’d be interesting real world success stories and benchmarks.
The french company Smile has a document about the CMS Open Source, a small comparison but a very interesting document. You can get it form their site but take into account that it’s wrotten in french.
I have released almost all the ONess modules, they are available for download. It’s also available the first 0.1 version of the order module.
From now the ONess project will be a core architecture integrating latest technologies (Spring, Hibernate, AspectJ, …) with useful tips for developers, and some sample real world apps (party management, inventory management, orders), unless more developers get involved. I’ll use it as test for new releases and technologies, I’m planning to take a look at Hibernate3 and add JSF as soon as posible.
Some time ago I found they way to show the latest weblog comments in roller. I found it a very cool feature for both writers, as jroller doesn’t email comments, and readers to check comments in all entries.
You can check the sources for the two files needed:
You can also add #showRecentCommentsListWidth(20 75) to show the titles of the recent comments
Thanks to Lance
After following some links my Java open source CMS list has grown:
Lenya seems a good option, maybe I’m too fan of Apache Foundation.
I’ll make a comparison between them, checking
It’ll be a good boost for the project chosen by my company because we develop CMS for major enterprises and government institutions.
Update: Added Magnolia
As many people lately I have started a new job. The enterprise is working hard with CMS systems as Vignette. I’m starting looking for open source alternatives, I’ve heard about exoPlatform, Jetspeed, LifeRay Portal and OpenCMS. A good resorce is OSCOM, although I don’t know why exoPlatform nor Jetspeed are not in the CMS Matrix, I think it’s because they are focused to developers, not end users. The matrix also lacks the language of the projects (PHP, Phyton, Java,…). I prefer Java solutions but maybe I’m biased.
Any comments are appreciated ;).
As I’m getting involved in the Maven2 core development, I’ll be writing down my experiencies, so they can be useful for other people.
Features of Maven2:
Resources of interest are:
To build it you need to run the bootstrapping process, typing java -jar mboot.jar in the maven-components dir, after creating a ~/.m2/override.xml file that must contain the following entries:
<local> <repository>/path/to/m2/repository</repository> (required) <online>true</online> (optional) </local>
Alternatively, you can specify -Dmaven.repo.local=/path/to/m2/repository. Maven2 will be installed in ~/m2.
After the five years course at the University of A Coru�a (Spain), I’ve just finished my end of course project, ONess, and got the Computer Engineer degree. I’m so happy 😀
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