opencomponentry

I’ve noticed a distinct lack of opinion coming from (what I personally view to be) some of our more prominent java developers in the industry on the closures debate.
By this I mean Gavin / Rod / Howard and Cedric.
I know there may be many valid reasons to not give opinions – such as not traditionally [...]

A new version of Tapestry has been released for general consumption. It is highly reccomended that anyone using the 4.1.x series of Tapestry try out the upgrade as it contains many bug fixes and minor improvements that you’ll likely benefit from. (more found in the release notes)
Download it here.
Tacos Updates
Although I’ve been very [...]

My new friend Kirill has reminded me of another constant source of vomiting when he made some observations about my anti-Swing web development rant.
Specifically he mentions CSS as being somehow better at laying out html than umm…html?
A possible analogy for the web development would be doing everything in pure HTML (and its deficiencies with [...]

The MysteryCoder has written up a little article discussing one often missed feature in Rails – Tapestry style components.
In it he discusses some of the features he misses in WebObjects/Tapestry style components such as re-usable view logic, component composition and binding parameters.
I know another rails developer (who I’ll leave anonymous to save him from [...]

Not knowing where else to announce it I thought I should mention that version 2.7.2 of OGNL was quietly released yesterday and is now available via ibiblio. Special thanks to Toby Tmjee for his recent contributions and help on the project.
The number of issues being reported related to expression compilation seems to have gone [...]

There, I said it. I don’t know about you, but every time I read another article where someone touts their java web framework for its likeness to programming in Swing I want to vomit all over my monitor – and then the person doing the touting.
Swing? …Really?
Before I make all [...]