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Tapestry 5 Preview: POJOs and Annotations over XML
Apache Tapestry has released a preview of Tapestry 5, a complete re-write that adopts Java annotations over XML, POJO component classes over base class inheritance, and promises significant performance improvements.
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Seam 1.1.5: Now tested on all major appservers
Red Hat has released Seam framework 1.1.5. Seam ties together other JEE frameworks such as EJB3, JSF, jBPM, JBoss Rules (Drools), and iText. This release includes security framework enhancements and increased support for applications servers such as Websphere among its features.
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InfoQ Book: Getting Started With Grails
In this latest InfoQ book, Jason Rudolph introduces Grails, an open-source, web-app development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Over the course of this book, the reader will explore Grails and experience it by building a Grails app.
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Article: Spring 2.0: What's New and Why it Matters
Spring co-founder Rod Johnson provides the definitive article on the motivations behind and uses of the new features in Spring 2.0. This first article covers the Spring core container, XML configuration extensions, AOP enhancements and Java 5-specific features.
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A Discussion On Grails in the Enterprise
Groovy/Grails has continued to gain momentum in recent months. Grails co-founder Steven Devijver recently took a look at the Java web framework space and the case for Grails in the Enterprise.
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ONJava reviews Wicket
ONJava has a review of Wicket. He concludes that Wicket is a good contender if you're looking for a component-oriented web application framework.
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Tibco Announces Sponsorship of DWR
TIBCO Software, Inc. which open sourced their General Interface Ajax Toolkit last year, has announced that they will be sponsoring Joe Walker's development of the popular DWR Java library for writing Ajax applications.
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GWT Roundup - Johnson Discusses Open Sourcing, Blum Reveals Details of Java Compilation
InfoQ recently caught up with GWT's Bruce Johnson to discuss the full open sourcing of the product. In other GWT news Artima's Frank Sommers interviewed Google Engineer Scott Blum this week on GWT's compilation of Java code to Javascript.
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Reasons to choose Wicket over JSF and Spring MVC
A recent post to the Wicket mailing list details some reasons to choose Wicket over Spring MVC or JSF. Wicket is a component based web application framework.
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InfoQ Article: An Introduction to JBoss Seam 1.1
JBoss Seam is a new full-stack web application framework that unifies and integrates Ajax, JSF, EJB2, Portlets, and BPM. Seam 1.1 released last week, and InfoQ has published an introduction to Seam, explaining what Seam can do with a HelloWorld example.
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Spring: unifying themes and complete tour
At The Spring Experience this past weekend, Adrian Colyer keynoted an overview of the unifying themes of Spring and what all the capabilities of the Spring portfolio are. Rod Johnson also weighed in on a debate countering that there is no "not invented here" syndrome at Spring by explaining that Spring only goes as deep as it needs to considering what's already available.
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Google GWT Toolkit and Development Process Become Fully Open Source
Today Google fully open sourced their GWT toolkit under the Apache 2.0 license. The development process of the toolkit going forward will also be open including development discussions, code reviews, future milestones, and the entire codebase.
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Presentation: Zero Calories J2EE Case study
A lightweight approach with a rich domain model used directly in web-tier can increase both quality and speed of development. This case study, recorded at Javapolis 2005, looks at a Tapestry+Spring+Hibernate project by Nordija, how it was architected, how testability was introduced, and the level of simplicity achieved using the lightweight approach.
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Rod Johnson: 2006 the year Spring became Ubiquitous
Rod Johnson kicked off the opening keynote of The Spring Experience conference declaring that 2006 was year Spring became ubiquitous. Rod cited a number of notable large scale Spring deployments, and also reviewed the events that drove Spring adoption in 2006.
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InfoQ Article: Migrating Struts Apps to Struts 2 - Part III
In this third and final part of the Struts 2 migration series, Struts committer Ian Roughely completes the migration of a Struts app to Struts 2, by migrating the user interface - jsps & tags. This series teaches Struts 2 architecture & the differences in request processing as well as how to configure a Struts2 app and combine actions and JSP's.