Tag: Java

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 most. The impression left from his comparison was that Struts and Spring MVC were the most mature. Spring MVC is even picking up on job offerings, but as he said that could be because Spring IoC triggers in his search.

We also had a look at AppFuse which I’ll have to look into. There’s a lot of magic going on there that I’m a bit sceptical about, but if it saves time it saves time. 😉

It was a good seminar and left me some pointers as to where to start off with Spring MVC. I got almost everything I expected out of the day. Matt is a smart guy, and a good speaker. He’s even a nice guy. 😉 We had some chats during lunch about the some of the challenges with opensource, different frameworks, his childhood and even some of his professional plans. I’ll leave it to him to announce them. 🙂

Go see him if you get the chance. As far as I know he’s at the Stavanger JUG on wednesday, and Oslo JUG on thursday.

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 another AJAX-approach.

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, it would be nice to be evil and sit there collecting royalties from all mapping going on in the world, but this is just too stupid. And even if you were the first one to come up with the idea of mapping, how can you claim ownership of such a general idea? I haven’t really read up on the issue of software patents, but if it’s going to amount to this in Europe too we should be scared.