Andrej Koelewijn

The serverside is reporting on a Forrester report: The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms Q1 2005. Basically Forrester is saying that both MS and Oracle offer the most complete solution with their application servers. Not many people seems to agree with this on the Serverside, most people think either Oracle or Microsoft payed for this report.

That may or may not be true, but fact is that Oracle is working hard on offering a good and complete application server. Some examples: BPEL support in the application server, and Oracle is already offering a developer preview of EJB 3.0. They’re also working pretty hard on their IDE: see for example the JSF support in JDeveloper.

Read the CNET article: Oracle warms to Eclipse with open-source project.

While i was searching for mobile weatherstations i found this site: Bwired.nl. Someone has put everything, i mean literally everything, about his house online: energy, water, gas, all incoming and outgoing phone calls, the status off every device in his house (Sunscreen, bathroom amplifier, lights, washdryer, etc), and ofcourse his weatherstation. Just wait untill he gets a virus…

O’reilly has started a repository for java components: O’reilly CodeZoo.

I never considered the possibility, but it’s so obvious: The Mozilla foundation is raising funds using Firefox’s integrated search. Helping your favorite browser has never been easier: just use the integrated search.

Some strange contradiction happened this week. Joshua Marinacci is asking in his blog why people aren’t shipping Swing applications. His post has generated a lot of reactions, and many people are saying that Swing isn’t fast enough, and that’s why they prefer SWT. Infoworld published an article comparing the four major Java IDE’s: Four Java IDEs duke it out. The article compares Borland JBuilder, IBM Rational Software Architect, Oracle JDeveloper, and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7. IBM Rational Software Architect is based on Eclipse, so it uses SWT. According to the article the IBM IDE is the slowest of the four, and Oracle Jdeveloper is the fastest. Oracle’s JDeveloper is based on Swing. So it seems like using SWT for performance isn’t really that important, performance probably has to do with a lot of other issues as well.