A Small Place for Distributed Stuff…

I forgot to speak on this blog about the book review I wrote on the excellent XQuery book.
It is available online on Javalobby website at http://www.javalobby.org/articles/xquery/.

I have updated the JiBX plugin.
This new version introduces:

navigation between the XML binding file and the corresponding Java code (at least on a class and field level),
errors annotations (for example if your binding if broken and mapping to a missing Java field),
refactoring (your binding will automatically be updated when you rename your Java field).

As this […]

I’ve updated the JiBX plugin late yesterday.
This new version should work for version 5, 6 and 7 (EAP).
The biggest improvement is error reporting. Now you have direct access to the right place in your binding file where the error occurred.

The plugin has been updated to JiBX version 1.1.
Make sure your project also uses JiBX 1.1 though.

Google Summer of Code 2006 is starting and various mentoring organizations have already proposed many projects. As I have been keeping an eye on XWiki, especially its recent move towards a LGP license, I read the project ideas that Ludovic wrote. And guess what? There is a project idea that I’m really in need of: […]

Here is an unusual post for this weblog. Regular readers of this weblog may know that I am working on an innovative solution for e-commerce. As I need to work this out properly, I would like to gather a list of (ideally) 10 small companies that are in need of creating an online store (I’m […]

Yesterday at the OSSGTP meeting, we had a great presentation from Henry about the semantic web. Among the critics of the attendants were the usual expectations regarding real-world usage of RDF. So here is a cap of what I am already aware of…
First of all, let’s start with Firefox: writing plugins require you to write […]

As I need to know the state of CVS/Subversion versions of various opensource projects I do use/plan to use, I have added Tapestry and Restlet to my Continuum server.
You can see the results at the usual place: http://www.kalixia.biz:18080/continuum/

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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.

I am thinking about writing a Berkeley DB XML [en] plugin for IntelliJ IDEA [en].
What I think would be useful would be:

a way to read the documents from the database (I’m thinking of a tree with a node per document),
a possible integration with the XPath plugin?
a XQuery plugin: simple support for execution of XQuery request at first, […]

I have updated the JiBX [en] plugin for IntelliJ IDEA [en]. This new version fixes a critical bug make the compiler abort if there was no binding selected in the current project.
The error reporting in the compilation console is also much more better, as you can see:
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I’m going to fill out the contributing license agreement [en] so […]

Berkeley DB XML [en] (the best OpenSource native XML database) has a new reference [en], and not a small one as you can see on the press release [en].
Having AutoDesk as a new reference definitely ease the process of convincing the pointy hairy boss that this product is a really good one and that you do NOT always […]

Amazon announced yesterday a beta version of Alexa Web Search Platform [en]. This service allows you to use the indexes of Alexa’s database in order to do whatever you can think of.
Being fond of RDF, I am wondering if it would be feasible to extract RDF data from it in order to create the biggest RDF […]

For those who do not know JiBX, this is a really powerful XML < -> Java mapping tool. IMO the best one.
Anyway, as I do plan to use it intensively on my future project (I’ll talk more about it later on…), I decided to write a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
Its usage is rather simple: when […]