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November 25, 2002
jBOSS and xdoclet
While I was reacquainting myself with some tools for my class, I ran across a good tool called xdoclet. My class uses jBOSS as their application server and since I don't get to play with these things as part of my job anymore, every year, I have to get up to speed on the latest release and what new features it has. jBOSS changes a lot in a year, to the point where almost nothing I knew last year is applicable anymore. While I was searching for a good primer, I ran across this document on the jBOSS site and some associated examples. The examples are based on a template (which is quite helpful) for bean development that uses xdoclet. xdoclet, with some help in comments, creates all the associated bean files (remote interface, home interface, deployment descriptor, etc.) from the primary bean source. Its configurable to support BEA Weblogic, IBM WebSphere, and others in addition to jBOSS, so its really quite helpful.
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Another Candidate for the Indexing Bake-Off
One of the realities of life for a CIO is you talk to lots of vendors. Often I show up at a meeting that someone decided I "just had to be at" with very little idea of why I'm there. I know, you're saying "take charge of your schedule" and believe me I try, but sometimes politics is a driver you can't ignore. The largest crop of vendors I'm seeing lately is the type that comes in and says "we were sitting around one day and suddenly we thought 'Wow! We have the answer to Homeland Security'." Today I had such a meeting with a company called Whamtech. All in all, a pretty interesting technology. I think they'd make an excellent candidate for the indexing bake-off I proposed.
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SmartUTAH's Tech Expo in Box Elder County
I'll be speaking at the SmartUTAH Tech Expo in Box Elder County on December 5th. SmartUTAH is a local non-profit foundation aimed at increasing the penetration of technology to the rural areas of the State. I've spoken for them in Sanpete and Uintah counties as well. My topic will be "New eGovernment Services for Utah." Microsoft has been an important sponsor of these events and a good corporate citizen in this regard. They usually send someone to talk about Microsoft's new directions and I have found them to be pretty interesting. Got one of my early previews of .NET at the Sanpete county event.