According to the milestone plan for the Eclipse Web Tools Project, they are scheduled to release the first stable build of the project today. Many people have waited for this project to come out, as it will add a very needed feature to Eclipse, namely the creation of web projects (JSPs, J2EE, etc.)

I have been toying around with the latest Release Candidates, and one of the things that stand out for me is that although they support a whole variety of J2EE runtime application servers like JBoss, Websphere, JOnAS, Weblogic and even Geronimo, they seemed to have forgotten to add support for Sun ONE Application Server.

Was this omission on purpose? No one will know, but conspiracy theories abound on the subject.

It will also be interesting to see how companies like Genuitec, the makers of MyEclipse IDE (an IDE based on Eclipse with add-on plugins and features for J2EE development) will respond to the market. The only reason (in my opinion) that they exist was because eclipse didn't had an integrated set of plugins for web development, which will no longer be the case. Somehow they'll have to evolve if they want to remain in business.

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Posted by Guillermo Castro on July 29, 2005 4:16:04 PM CDT #

When I was looking at alternative frameworks for a project I have in my head, I looked at the obvious ones: Struts and JSF. I decided on JSF because as it comes from Sun, it is more likely that it will become the standard in the near future. However, I knew about the Spring Framework and I must confess that I thought "oh, another web framework..." and only gave it a customary glance.

But in the last week I've been reading the book Spring in Action, and I have to admit, the whole concept of dependency injection is pretty cool. And I've realized that Spring's web support is only a tiny bit of what the Framework offers. I like the integration with ORM tools like Hibernate, or the fact that you have several distribution options for Spring, etc.

Hopefully I'll use it more during the couple of weeks.

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Posted by Guillermo Castro on July 29, 2005 8:44:28 AM CDT #

Well, after a couple of weeks of practically posting nothing, and still with the upload process from my old blog in standby, I decided that it was enough, so I moved my blog from my own hosting into eApps. It is a great hosting service that gives you your own private server (Using Virtual Private Servers). It is a great service and it's only $20/month.

And the other reason I took so long to make this move is that I also moved jobs, and getting started on the new job proved to be quite entertaining :)

So, hopefully I'll come back to my regular posting now, and the archives should be back online someday.

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Posted by Guillermo Castro on July 28, 2005 3:57:32 PM CDT #