Re: [jug-discussion] Spam

2008-11-21 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
I didn't get it either, and I don't use Gmail or other filtering. Christopher, spam email headers are *always* forged, because spamming is illegal in many areas. If you have a public email that's posted on the web, your email address is probably being used for spam. I know mine is - about

Re: [jug-discussion] Web Oriented Architecture WOA

2006-09-14 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Hi Randy, There's a lot of confusion over terminology in this area. REST is a particular approach to working with distributed resources, and most of what's being done under the name of REST doesn't actually match the rules. What's really becoming popular is POX - Plain Old XML, exchanged

Re: [jug-discussion] Organization Hosting Solution

2006-01-31 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
G'day, mates. I'd definitely recommend Rimu. I've been with them for the last 2-3 years, after initially trying a couple of other Java hosting outfits. Rimu gives you a full virtual system, and you can install whatever packages you want on that system (as well as configure iptables, etc.,

Re: [jug-discussion] MSoft + Jboss?

2005-09-29 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
I agree that JBoss is evolving in some strange ways. Having taken over a large developer mindshare in the J2EE market I think they're trying to figure out where to go from here - J2EE looks to me to be on the downswing, with lighter weight technologies increasingly used as alternatives.

Re: [jug-discussion] IBM DeveloperWorks Headline Article on AOP Tools

2005-02-09 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Hey, I don't count? http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cwt02095/ Actually mine just went up today. It didn't get the lead position because somebody else is being featured, Nick. :-P Looks like there's going to be a lot of AOP on devWorks this year - the next three

Re: [jug-discussion] Next week's meeting

2004-09-08 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Warner Onstine wrote: On Sep 8, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Tim Colson wrote: So, for the meeting next week, Warner has asked me to present on Tapestry. Excellent! I was wondering if that was still on tap... I'll add your name to the website link so you can't back out. :-) Anybody up for doing a

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse question

2004-09-01 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are thinking of Simon -- he's the man that knows about writing Plugins and using SWT. Unfortunately he is off to New Zealand for a couple weeks, so it looks like you get to read that big PDF. Hi Vincent, Not sure if we've met or not - I'm up in Seattle, but

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse question

2004-09-01 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Dennis Sosnoski wrote: Hi Vincent, Not sure if we've met or not - I'm up in Seattle, but get down to Tucson periodically. I'll be there for this month's meeting for a short presentation on SWT. ... Shucks, caught by the reply-to. I meant to send direct to Vincent... Tim, for the plugin help

Re: [jug-discussion] UI stuff

2004-08-08 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
That's interesting to see, they're taking an approach similar to something I've been planning. People have been trying for several years now to come up with XML GUI designs for Java, along the lines of Mozilla's XUL. I think that kind of approach is overkill for Java, though, and that rather

Re: [jug-discussion] UI stuff

2004-08-08 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
this out? - Dennis Warner Onstine wrote: Umm, have you guys seen SwiXML? http://swixml.org/ -warner On Aug 8, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote: That's interesting to see, they're taking an approach similar to something I've been planning. People have been trying for several years now

Re: [jug-discussion] UI stuff

2004-08-07 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Tim Colson wrote: Similar topic -- I went through the demo for Intellij's GUI designer while waiting on jury duty this week. Currently it's geared toward simple forms (no menus) and unlike other GUI designers, the primary operating style is to NOT generate code. (They added the option to gen code,

Re: [jug-discussion] ColdFusion from JAXRPC

2004-05-03 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Duffy Gillman wrote: ... So far I've wished real hard, crossed my fingers and held my breath. Neither these nor scouring newsgroups and tutorial sites have yielded the tools nor tutorials I imagine. So I thought to put this to the group. Has anyone ventured to implement the same web service

Re: [jug-discussion] may preso good news/bad news

2004-05-03 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
While you're soliciting opinions, let me give the group some choices for what I should focus on: * Basic why and what of XML web services, historical background and intro to SOAP WSDL, Apache Axis * Web service details: rpc/enc vs. doc/lit, WS-I Basic Profile, howtos with

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Drew Davidson wrote: I just got this forwarded to me by Randy Kahle: http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44117rss=1 Interesting how Apache (via Gier Magnusson) is part of this JSR, as well as Richard Monson-Haefel (famous author and Java guru). When the idea of an OGNL JSR was brought up

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Warner Onstine wrote: And also with reference to what Dennis said about JDOM, whatever happened with that JSR? http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=102 It looks like it died, but I don't see any explanation. It refuses to die, but so far has successfully resisted completion. See

Re: [jug-discussion] anyone see this?

2004-02-27 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
We've had some discussion of this up here on the Seattle JUG, too. Sounds good to me - Sun would still own the Java trademark, but the Linux distros would be able to include it and developers would be able to experiment with language changes and such (as long as they didn't call their tweaked

Re: [jug-discussion] Prevayler

2004-02-20 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
You might want to look into my JiBX (http://www.jibx.org) project for the XML part, too. JiBX is a higher-level solution than Betwixt and Digester, which I think you'd find easier to set up while also delivering better performance. It's not as automatic as the bean serialization in JDK 1.4,

Re: [jug-discussion] code coverage

2004-02-11 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Sounds like a great meeting - wish I could have been down for last night. On the topic of bytecode manipulation, did anyone discuss Javassist? It's got great hooks for aspect-oriented use, including the ability to easily apply systematic transformations to all uses of a method or field. The

Re: [jug-discussion] code coverage

2004-02-11 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
I've now got a second article on devWorks about using Javassist at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-dyn0203.html (the first one on Javassist was from last fall, and just covered the basics; the third one, covering the systematic transform hooks, should be out in a couple of

Re: [jug-discussion] code coverage

2004-02-11 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
I've also implemented wrappers that hide the BCEL dualities, for instance, along with equivalents to some of the other things on your list. Isn't the fact that it's necessary for users to write their own wrapper APIs a sign that the underlying API is badly designed? I think it is. My biggest

Re: [jug-discussion] For those who haven't seen this yet - Apacheannounces J2EE stack

2003-08-14 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
J2EE stack by using the Elba code. ... - Dennis Dennis Sosnoski wrote: Warner Onstine wrote: From what I've read on the incubator site he is the basic breakdown of what they are doing: 1) They will have a snapshot of the Jboss code which will be a full J2EE stack This doesn't appear

Re: [jug-discussion] For those who haven't seen this yet - Apacheannounces J2EE stack

2003-08-14 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Warner Onstine wrote: From what I've read on the incubator site he is the basic breakdown of what they are doing: 1) They will have a snapshot of the Jboss code which will be a full J2EE stack This doesn't appear to match the FAQ statements: *Q: Will it involve JBoss code.* A: No. This is a

[jug-discussion] JiBX Data Binding framework Beta 2

2003-07-31 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Just to follow up on my talk back in April, I finally posted the long-delayed Beta 2 release for my JiBX XML data binding framework, with many added features: http://www.jibx.org I'll try to get an updated version of my presentation on JiBX and JAXB out on my web site within the next week or

Re: [jug-discussion] April 8 Meeting Announcement

2003-04-02 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
/index.html on the XML zone, and Securing Linux for Java services http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-secjav.html on the Linux zone. - Dennis Simon Ritchie wrote: The next meeting on April 8, will feature two interesting speakers: Dennis Sosnoski and Rob Gingell. The meeting

[jug-discussion] Big savings through open source Java

2003-01-20 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
There's a very nice article on ZDNet discussing how FCCI Insurance Group made the move from Windows/IIS/Delphi to Linux/JBoss/Eclipse: http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2908812,00.html If your group is having a tough time convincing management to let you go with open

Re: [jug-discussion] JDK 1.4 and XML?

2003-01-15 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Tim Colson wrote: From a cursory look, would I be correct saying JAXB appears suited to Java Object mapping to/from generic XML, whereas java.beans.XMLEncode/Decode appear suited to Java Object Serialization to/from Java Specific XML? If that's not correct, could you please give the high-level

Re: [jug-discussion] FYI: dom4j

2002-12-11 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Hey Tom, since you linked to my articles I may as well toss in my $.02. I've tried a number of different projects using any one or more of these three APIs. I'd put the tradeoffs this way: * DOM - the big advantages are cross-language interface (if you use other languages beside Java)