Dazed & Confused

Java.net has an article on Tomcat and LDAP setup here. Nice and simple setup that’ll work in many situations, but I sometimes find that you need more than simply roles.

So in the series about Geronimo design from Developer Works part two can be found here.

I’ll certainly be basing my next site layout on this CSS framework. I’m still learning CSS, and a source like this could help me get to the next level.
Via Matt Raible

It’s been a while since he posted this, but Mike Spille is taking a stroll on The Dark Side, he’s doing an app in .NET! He has good reasons for doing this: doing a realtime Java app is one thing, but this app he is making also needs some low level monitoring and [...]

Matt Raible is doing his first training tour overseas in Norway this week. Beeing the author of Spring Live the topic was of course Spring Framework, but also some of the “competition” (at least to the MVC part) like WebWork, JSF and Tapesty. All of them have problems, but he seemed to like Tapestry the [...]

Busy days. Check out Threadless for cool t-shirts. They’ve got a pretty nice system for selecting good designs, and their service is excellent. Two t-shirts were in my mail within two weeks, and the price was just below the limit for getting extra toll in Norway. In my hand for the grand total of 261,- [...]

Another addition to the new AJAX-hype is the AjaxTags, a struts tag-lib.
Looks pretty nice, but i don’t know if this is the smoothest way to do it. Perphaps a simple javascript in the jsp is just as easy, an extra taglib, recompiling struts.jar and another xml-config-file is not so tempting. Read this article for [...]

Franz Bouma discovered that Microsoft has patented ORMapping . I gave up trying to read all the patent mumbo jumbo, but it sure looks like a patent on OR-Mapping. I’m a bit confused actually to wether it’s just an application, or wether it has been approved.
But anyway, is there no decency? I mean, sure, [...]

Designing a product like Geronimo is a hughe undertaking. IBM Developerworks has an article about the design and inner workings of Geronimo. Interesting read.
Via java.no.

IBM is embracing blogging. Some info and their blogging guidelines is here. It’s quite major when a large company like IBM encourages blogging. I think many companies would not do this because they fear what their employees would publish. Through this IBM shows a great deal of trust in their employees, as well as embracing [...]