I’ve been reading the documentation for Ofbiz, an "open source enterprise automation software project". Basically the project provides almost everything you need to create an ERP, a CRM or whatever Enterprise application you want. One of the most interesting concepts they implement is the Entity Engine. In a nutshell, the engine allows you to deal […]
A couple of months ago I presented a Podcast related to Java, Javacast. Well, for reasons that are still unknown to me, javacast went ‘out of the air’. But they are back! Sort of… They have created a new endeavour, JavaPosse, which so far has had some interesting podcasts. Hopefully this time they’ll stay ‘on […]
After playing with Ubuntu for a while, I decided it was time to test another Linux distribution. This time, I went with OpenSuSE 10.0. As always, installation wasn’t a problem. In less than 25 minutes I had my system up and running. I liked the fact that opensuse, after installing, takes you directly to the […]
This Saturday, we had the opportunity to organize a Java User Group meeting, and have as special guest none other than Mr. James Gosling. Here’s the picture to prove it: We discussed several topics about Java. James Gosling talked to us about the new tools in Netbeans 5 for RAD GUI development, how he sees […]
Just as I was researching on a Continuous Integration tool for our next project at work, I learn from a co-worker that the Apache Maven Project has released final version 1.0 of its CI tool, Continuum. I downloaded and installed the application, and it looks really nice. Previous to this tool, I was considering using […]
I am very excited. This weekend Mr. James Gosling will come to Monterrey to act as a one of the guest speakers for a national youth science event. The good thing about it is that thanks to my lovely wife, who’s part of the team doing the organization of the event, I was able to […]
I’m using Ajaxtags to implement an ajax-enabled form with dynamic dropdown fields. In order to access my DAO object (which is a Spring managed bean) to get the dropdown options, I had to have access to the Application context from a regular Servlet. The solution is very simple, but since I had some troubles finding […]
I’ve been using Gentoo on my laptop for a while, and while I find the features of Gentoo to be very powerful (compile from source to target your specific machine, central source repository, repository synchronization, etc), the fact that updating any major application takes a couple of days has really hit me. I’ve been looking […]
While reading the morning news, I found an entry on JavaLobby talking about a new Open Source Collaboration system written in Java. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a Java-based, AJAX-enabled web application that can do email, contacts, calendar, etc. I used the demo and I’m very impressed. I see that they have borrowed many concepts […]
Finally, after using 4.0M2 for a while, I am upgrading to the GA (General Availability) version of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench. Among the new features that comes with this release, I’m most interested in their UML Perspective, their JSF support and the new Visual Web Designer. You can check all the new features here. For only […]
