Craig McClanahan has started a blog... and his second post -after a quick introduction- is about the 'hot' subject of the usage of Struts or JSF.

Quote:

For new development, here's the best strategy for determining what to do:

• Evaluate the two technologies individually, to see if they satisfy your requirements.
• If one or the other technology is sufficient, go ahead and use it (it's easier to learn and use one technology rather than two where possible); keeping in mind, however, the caveats about Struts HTML tags mentioned above.
• If your requirements include unique features supported only by Struts (such as Tiles or client side validation support), feel free to use the two frameworks together.

Sun has sent a letter to the Java Community to start a single POJO persistence model, this will be done under the EJB 3.0 specification (JSR-220).

You can see comments from the community on TheServerSide Web site.

Oracle and Fujistu just announced new SpecJ2002 results, establishing a new record of 5,991.73 TOPS@MultipleNode (total operations per second) with a price-performance of 654.20 Euros/TOPS@MultipleNode. This was realized using Oracle Application Server 10g running on Fujitsu servers.

The results are available on the Spec Web site, the Press Release here.

The Middleware company has created an initiative to test the different Object-Relational mapping tools, this test is named Torpedo. You can find the announcement of this O-R benchmark initiative on TSS Web site.

Oracle Toplink just posted news results that you can read and comment here.

Portalbook.com is the site of Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter, authors of the book Building Portals with the Java Portlet API.

If you are interested in Portlet development, bookmark this site and buy the aPress book !

I did not have a chance to read the book yet, so feel free to give your feedback as comment.

Like lot of Java developers I was very excited about the announcement of the creation of the JSR-241... But where are we now ?

The JSR mailing list (http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.groovy.jsr ) is very quiet... No meeting, not a lot of question/response. And like Patrick M. I have friends that have asked to be part of the Expert Group and never had any response.

I think that the Groovy Language is really a nice way of putting Java to the next level, easier to learn, to use and still powerful... I will not go in an enumeration of the benefits of Groovy here... but just asking what the Expert Group is doing ? What is the next step for the Groovy Language and the JCP ?

Oracle has been involved in the JavaServer Faces (JSR 127) since its creation, and released yesterday a set of components. The list of the available component is available here.

The software is available for download on OTN.

Lot of us want to create portlets (or publish content) based on weather information. The best solution that I found is the Weather Channel XML.

And I was really impressed by xaopWeather (PHP based)! Let me know if you find an equivalent but Java based !

Gerard Davidson has created a java.net project to integrate AOP Framework to JDeveloper 10g, starting with an extension for AspectJ!

Struts 1.2.1 Beta is now available for download.

Duncan Mills published on OTN an article that explains how-to use Struts 1.2.1 with Oracle JDeveloper 10g.