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20060126 Thursday January 26, 2006

Learn about WebWork 2.2 and Tapestry 4.0 via Podcasts podcastI've said in the past that Podcasts are boring. I still think this is true for the most part, but that's largely because most of them aren't appealing to me. However, this week I've found a couple of good ones. Tapestry 4.0 and WebWork 2.2 have recently been released, and now you can listen to interviews with both project's primary developers: Patrick Lightbody of WebWork and Howard Lewis Ship of Tapestry/Hivemind. The easiest way I've found to subscribe and listen to podcasts is to download iTunes. You also may want to checkout The Java Podcasters article on ONJava.com.

I hope to upgrade both Equinox and AppFuse to these releases in the near future, I just need to find the time. I also hope to change the default web framework in AppFuse to Struts Action 2 as part of AppFuse 2.0. This will allow us to ditch Struts and WebWork and only support 4 web frameworks (SA2, Spring MVC, Tapestry and JSF). Posted in Java at Jan 26 2006, 08:22:02 AM MST 4 Comments

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Thanks for the heads up on the podcasts Matt. I've found the best source is itconversations.com. Check out this one on open source by Paul Graham: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail657.html Oh, and ajaxian also has a couple of interviews with the primary developer of dojo (interviews 4 and 5): http://ajaxian.com/by/topic/podcast/ -Gene

Posted by Gene on January 26, 2006 at 12:11 PM MST #

Hi Matt, Have you considered on including Beehive in your framework? I didn't notice you bloged about it. What's your take on it, and also how do you compare it with springs flow project? Do you think using annotations to hook up the controllers/mapping/forms or using annotations to declare validation rules in your code might make integration in appfuse more difficult or easier as they are framework specific and might not work with things other than struts or webwork?

Posted by Srgjan Srepfler on January 26, 2006 at 05:36 PM MST #

Podcasts boring? Matt... you gotta check out the Ricky Gervais podcast! http://www.rickygervais.com/podcast.php. it will have you in stitches. OK, not at all technology related, but it is Friday ;)

Posted by Lee on January 27, 2006 at 04:15 AM MST #

Srgjan - I don't plan on integrating Beehive at this point, mainly because it's based on Java 5. In addition, it's based on Struts, which I hope to phase out in favor of Struts Action 2.0. Spring Web Flow offers some *very* cool features and is likely a better fit for AppFuse - especially since it supports multiple frameworks and has a larger user community.

Posted by Matt Raible on January 30, 2006 at 04:49 PM MST #

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