The French government are already leading the way for Linux usage in government offices (the Gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture already are using Linux), but now the Parliament offices will now also replace Windows for Linux.
InfoQ interview with Gavin King re. Seam 1.1
InfoQ.com have a great interview with Gavin King on their site discussing the new features and changes in Seam 1.1.
Most interesting I think is the option to no longer be reliant on EJB3 Entity Beans as the backing beans for the JSF pages, but instead use plain POJOs – a feature that allows you to deploy a Seam based app without a dependency on an EE App Server. More details in this blog entry here.
Swing Extreme GUI Makeover – code and demo from JavaOne 2006
One of the most popular JavaOne sessions this year was the ‘Extreme GUI Makeover’ session, in which the guys from SwingLabs took a plain looking Swing app and then jazzed it up.
The source code, and an animated demo of the added features in the app are now available for download – see this article for more details
JBoss news roundup – JBoss 5 .0 beta 1
theserverside.com have a news roundup of a lot of product annoucements from JBoss. It seems JBoss have been rather quiet since their buyout by RedHat, and maybe this is why.
Beta1 of JBoss Application Server 5.0 is out now, and the final release with Java EE 5.0 certification is targeted for the first half of 2007. Features and improvements in 5.0 include:</p
- AJAX-RPC1.1 implementation. JBoss Web Services supports all J2EE compliant Web Service apis
- improved performance, scalability and reliability of JBoss AS Clustering support
- JBoss Messaging – JMS 1.1 implementation
- JBoss Seam 1.1
- JBoss EJB3.0
- Hibernate 3.2 – the industy’s first JPA compliant ORM solution