Today we got a presentation by an IBM guy on the Rational Tool Suite. The presentation wasn't too bad.
One interesting point was that he was using JBoss as AppServer. I would have expected that they have to use Websphere. So much about "Eat your own dog food".

I am now (for nearly two weeks) invloved with Xdoclet as commiter. Xdoclet is a code generator, where you add tags in javadoc format to your source (@foo.bar). Xdoclet then generates Java files and deployment descriptors. Currently I am wading through JIRA, their trouble ticket tool. It's quite some work. But fortunately, you see a result.
I am also currently writing an article for iX magazine about Xdoclet. I submitted it to the editor two days ago in the afternoon, saying that it is not clear when there will be a next release. In the evening, there was a mail on the developers malingl list saying "hey, do we want to release this weekend?" :-)

Gavin King (the hibernate guy) is writing about SFSB. While not everything he wrote is correct (according to the comments, which I did not verify), his last sentence Lesson: beware J2EE folklore! is completely true.
I often hear "CMP is useless". When you ask people why, they tell you some myths or results from a foaf or things they experienced years ago, which is not true on a modern CMP 2.x server like JBoss.

We have been at our local OBI store on Saturday. Over the loudspeaker, the lady was announcing "And now, just in time for eastern: out four million megapixel camera is on stock again". She was repeating this every then minutes.

Wow, they are having such a product at a consumer store, while you can't even buy that in high-end shops. :-)
Experience from the past (marketing guy is pretending that a megapixel screen can display 16 million colors simultaneously) showed that it doesn't make sense to tell the lady that four terra pixel cameras are still a bit in the future.

Remakably: Six barriers to open source adoption in the enterprise.

In Bruce Landon's Weblog for Students
he is writing: Jython really needs is more recognition from Sun and IBM .
I am not sure on this. To me it seems that at least IBM has a tendency to use things in a way that if you started with it once, you can't really move to another tool. Best example is WSAS 5 with WSAD. Support for DB/2 is far superior to support for other databases.

Now back to Jython: what could more recognition from one of those companies mean? Will there be a WSAD4Jython that gives comfortable editing et. al., while no plugin for Eclipse is supported?

I have been at CeBit, worlds largest IT exhibition.
Amongst others, I met Marc Fleury and Sacha Labourey from JBoss again. JBoss really seems to start now - also in Europe. The two guys had one meeting with the press after the other.
As in all the years, the parts at Heise publishers was great. This year it wasn't at their booth, but in EMC near central station.
I met quite some people therer, but didn't really see much new things. I think meeting old friends again there is the real purpose of all the fair business.

Today I stumbled over the this articles about Continous Integration.
I agree with it. The most interesting part is about being able to do a daily build and the pros and cons of it.
I often hear the same ("No, I don't run the testsuite between edits, this takes me 10 minutes each").

Then it says:

We are pretty aggressive about what we mean by a successful build.

* All the latest sources are checked out of the configuration management system
* Every file is compiled from scratch
* The resulting object files (Java classes in our case) are linked and deployed for execution (put into jars).
* The system is started and suite of tests (in our case, around 150 test classes) is run against the system.
* If all of these steps execute without error or human intervention and every test passes, then we have a successful build

I am not sure, if this is enough when done on a central test machine or if even developer has to run through this before even being allowed to check changes in.

Oh well ..

It looks like social networking sites are the new in things on the net. Lately I got invitations to Orkut and OpenBC. While browsing at Orkut, i found lots of people that are not only attached to one networking site, but to many of them.

I think that those networks can be very additive - especially when they allow to rank others and to be ranked, when they show how popular one is etc.

I really wonder when those communities start their business plans. OpenBC as an example first offeres their commerical premium services. When after a month you are accustomed to all the features, the account falls back to the normal version and you have to pay to get the level of service that you know.

And by the way: the grandmom of those sites, Sixdegrees is currently down for relaunch.

Die iX-Konferenz: J2EE, .Net, Web Services - Hype und Realität ist gelaufen und war sehr interessant. Die Vorträg waren (fast) durchgehend von guter Qualität.

Habe viele Kontakte knüpfen können.

Der Hardchor vom Abendprogramm war echt ein Brüller. Muss man sich für ähnliche Veranstaltungen merken.

Die Print Media Academy ist ein architektonisch sehr interessantes Gebäude und war ein sehr schöner Veranstaltungsort.

Gestern war nicht unbedingt Öffi-Tag. Erst kam die U14 zu spät, dann die S-Bahn weil sich jemand bei Feuersee vor die Bahn geworfen hat.
Der Flieger auf dem Rückweg war auch so ein Seelenverkäufer; eine Fokker50.

Der erste Tag ist rum. Eigentlich hat sich in den letzten vier Wochen nichts geändert.

Ein Kollege ist letzte Woche mit Verdacht auf Herzinfarkt ins Krankenhaus gekommen. :-(

Erster Arbeitstag nach dem Urlaub. Musste erstmal ein Plätzchen finden.

Die letzten vier Wochen sind wie im Flug vergangen. Endlich wieder etwas Zeit für JBoss gehabt und auch am Xdoclet Artikel geschrieben.