Tonight we are having our monthly Puget Sound IASA meeting on the topic of “Managing Investment Across the Project Life Cycle”. Here is the abstract for tonight‘s meeting: Scott Came, Monica Yap, and Tamara Sulaiman will be conducting a panel discussion about managing investment in projects from conception to delivery. Scott will discuss how enterprise [...]
Archives for October 2005
Maven Jini Plug-in Version 1.0 Released
The Maven Jini plug-in has been released. Installation instructions may be found at http://maven-jini-plugin.jini.org/. The 1.0 release allows a user to: Generate a Jini service project by running the “jini:genapp” goal Starting/Stopping of Jini starter kit services: Reggie, Mahalo, Phoenix, Fiddler, Norm, Mercury, Outrigger, Browser, and HTTP daemon Configurable RMI runtime using either JRMP, JERI, [...]
NFJS 2005 in Redmond
I spent the last weekend attending the best conference in the land, No Fluff Just Stuff. If you haven‘t been to this Friday-Sunday event, go to it when it‘s in your town. There are no vendors to derail you into web services or ESB. Just good ol‘ software development tools, howtos, and methodologies. Right from [...]
Nokia Communicator 9500 and J2ME
I am currently working on a project which allows me to get down and dirty with J2ME on multiple devices. My main focus has been on the Nokia Communicator 9500 which has a flip-up application screen and a full keyboard. I ran into a huge issue using the new JSR 75 – PIM and file [...]
The Context is What Matters
Lately, I have been in many discussions regarding best practices and patterns. The discussions started out with an attempt at defining “what is a ‘best practice‘?“. While speaking about the relevance of a “best practice”, I saw this blog entry from Ted Neward which asserted there is no such thing as a best practice. After [...]
Declarative Programming in Jini/JERI/RMI – (Annotations)
I am working on a personal project right now where I am developing Jini-aware services. Working with a “true” SOA is quite nice once you have the mindset. There are a few areas of Jini development which still cause me some grief though: Jini starter kit distribution- the lack of base service startup scripts for [...]
