Microsoft preview Longhorn to the press

Microsoft have started to preview Longhorn, the next major Windows release, to members of the press.

No sight of the WinFS revamped file system, but some of the new features sound like they will improve usability, for example, the file finder, which helps you find the last file you edited, based on content keywords, author name etc.

Comparison are also being made against the next version of Mac OS X which is due to be released in 2 weeks time. Longhorn isn’t due to possibly next year.

Wicket – POJO web app development

In the current trend of reducing J2EE application development to the simplest possible form, Plain Ordinary Java Objects, POJOs, the Wicket project is aiming to allow Java developers to build web apps also using POJOs.

Wicket’s feature list is pretty impressive. The approach to development is that the HTML pages are just that, plain HTML, and the Java supporting the pages are POJOs.

From looking throght the examples though, there is still some package and super class hierarchy dependencies on the Wicket framework, so I wouldn’t say that the Java code is pure POJOs, but it does look a lot cleaner than Struts.