Spring 1.1.1 has been released and I have already upload it to the ibiblio repository so it’s now available for Maven users. You can check the announcement, the changelog or download it.

Craig McClanahan, the original creator of the Struts Framework and the co-specification lead for JavaServer Faces 1.0 (JSF) has wrotten a very interesting entry in his weblog about Struts and JSF integration, with some comments about Spring and JSF.

Definitively JSF is on the top of my list of TODO tasks.

Here you can find an interesting report about business and open source.
Leading Edge Forum Report 2004, Open Source: Open for Business

This is the map of contries I’ve been to:

You can also create your personalized map of europe

I was taking a look to the JUG section of java.sun.com and went to the search form . I just clicked the Search button without entering form data and voil�! I got an exception, not only telling the system was not througly tested but also that the underlying database is Oracle (see the “ORA” code)
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00936: missing expression

This made me recall a conference about search engines where I was told that the most searched word was… the empty string! So don’t underestimate user dumbness 😉

There are some mirrors of the main maven repository at ibiblio that you can use for faster
downloads:
http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/maven/
http://ftp.up.ac.za/pub/linux/maven/
http://download.au.kde.org/pub/maven/
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/
http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/
http://smokeping.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/
http://horde.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/
http://curl.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/
http://python.planetmirror.com/pub/maven/

Just change your maven.repo.remote property to any of these.