Archive for February, 2006

More Rio news…

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

The Rio blog has recently published two more articles about Rio. The first one is about debugging a Rio application from IntelliJ IDEA, while the second one explain the Spaces substrate.
Meanwhile I have set up Continuum to run on the Rio projects. You can see it on a temporary website at http://www.kalixia.biz:18080/continuum/.

Contribution day to opensource projects

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Today I spent a part of the day packaging some code for donation.
As a follow-up of my recents post on a JiBX plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, I have refactored a bit my code and added it to JiBX‘ CVS repository. Feel free to improve/criticize it.
Next, I’m a new committer on Rio. I do plan to […]

Oracle and Sleepycat

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

I do have mixed feelings about the recent acquisition of Sleepycat by Oracle.
Even though Mike Olson explains the reasons behind this acquisition, I’m a bit disappointed regarding the future of the product. When choosing Sleepycat’s products, we’re not only choosing good solutions, we’re also choosing a great team working hard on improvements of their products.
I’m […]

Architecture of my new project

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Click on the image in order to see it in full-size (much more readable)
I do plan to use innovative technologies in order to provide the same kind of experience Jini developers experience to end-users of the store.
What it means is that the content of the store will react to the Jini topology.
For example should a […]

Who said Jini is dead?

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Obviously, opensourcing Jini under a ASLv2 license definitely was something people were interested in…
Many opensource projects are beginning to integrate with Jini technologies, such as Mule (a really powerful ESB) providing a JavaSpace connector, and a new project called Equinox working on a close integration between Jini, Rio and the Spring Framework.

IntelliJ IDEA plugin for JiBX - version 1.1.2

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

This release is a minor one made in order to use JiBX 1.0.1 (instead of 1.0-rc1). You can find it on the official plugins repository or from the IDE.