I did some work to Mavenize Moblogger this evening. The biggest plus thus far? The Moblogger.zip file when from 1.9 MB to 45 KB - that rocks!! I got jar and site:generate working just fine, but there's no unit tests, so probably a fair amount of work needs to be done there. Regardless, I'll try to check it in tonight so others can start pitching in. The hardest part? Learning to type maven instead of ant.
Update: Deploying the moblogger site was a piece of cake (maven site:deploy). Thanks to the Flock developers for providing a nice template for Mavenizing an app.
From The ServerSide.com, I became aware of the Open XUL Alliance.
The Open XUL Alliance site went live today.
The goal is to promote all things XUL (XML UI Language) and also to provide free test suites to help ensure
interoperability between different XUL motors/browsers/runtimes and free, open-source show-case examples (aka blue prints) to demo the power of XML for creating UIs.
For now the Open XUL Alliance Site sports:
* XUL News Wire - Breaking News About XUL; also known as the xul-announce Mailing List
* The Richmond Post - Chronicle of the XUL Revolution; XUL News Weblog
* xul-talk Mailing List - Beyond Mozilla; Talk about XUL issues touching more than one XUL motor/browser/runtime
* XUL Lecture Series - Rich Clients, Rich Browser, Rich Portals and much more
* XUL Link-opida - Articles, FAQs, Cheat Sheets and much more
Use the XUL, XForms and SVG trio to build rich clients for web services today.
Visit the Open XUL Alliance
The latest issue of Java Developers Journal has an excellent article on developing with JavaServer Faces. I read it on the plane last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I like it so much, that if I had my laptop with me, I probably wouldn't tried porting one of my sample apps to use JSF.
However, the magazine I had did not have any code samples in it - even though it referred to Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. So naturally, I was excited to see the online version and the downloadable source code. I might be a little ignorant (being from Montana and all ;-), but this download does nothing for me. It's a 3K zip file with one file in it - that has no extension. If I view it with Notepad, I get some text, but lots of garbage too. This would be a much better article if it included a simple WAR file. An example app that cannot be downloaded and run (or built and then run) is worth nothing to me.
