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Dave Johnson on blogging, open source and Java

OpenJPA 1.0 released - August 30, 2007

Congratulations to the Apache OpenJPA team on making their first official release since graduation. I wish I'd paid closer attention to the OpenJPA mailing lists and tested the release candidates. Oh well. I'll download and test the final 1.0 release and maybe we can get it into Apache Roller 4.0 RC2.
http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/openjpa_1_0_released

re: Java needs an overhaul - August 28, 2007

Tim Bray: Java still remains by far the largest development ecosystem, and the selection and quality of libraries put pretty well any other language&8217;s to shame, and it&8217;s really fucking fast, and has superb tooling, and we know how to run it securely, and it&8217;s Open-Source. So, if you want to move the state of the art along, a smart idea would be to work with, not against, Java. Finally, something I can agree with on the topic.
http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/re_java_needs_an_overhaul

APP interop event today and congrats to Atomic Joe Gregorio - August 6, 2007

I wasn't paying attention and this one snuck-up on me. Today at noon Pacific Time there will be an online Atom Publishing Protocol interop event. The location is IRC on the Freenode network in the atom channel: irc:irc.freenode.netatom. I'm really glad I didn't miss this announcement because I spent much of the last two weekends updating the ROME Propono and Apache Roller 4.0 implementations to work with the final version of APP (draft 17). I've got both implementations online now and ready...
http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/app_interop_event_today

Finally... "go to file" in Netbeans - August 1, 2007

I've been waiting years for this one. As Roumen Strobl points out, the Netbeans 6.0 nightly builds finally include a "go to file" feature, much like CTRL-SHIFT-R in Eclipse (but in Netbeans 6.0 it's CTRL-SHIFT-O). I'm diggin' 6.0 and it's starting to look pretty stable in advance of beta1, which is coming out this month. Grab a nightly build and check it out. According to Tor on the Java Posse the nightly builds are likely to be more stable than the most recent M10 milestone release.
http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/finally_go_to_file_in