Archive for March 2008

TSSJS / Day JCR Cup 2008

March 30, 2008 6:37 PM

TSSJS I returned from TSSJS this weekend, and it was quite an experience. In addition to speaking, I also attended some great sessions. I was particularly impressed with John Davies presentation ‘Extreme Transaction Processing’. Not only did I enjoy his session, but it rekindled my interest in GigaSpaces. I also enjoyed David Nuescheler’s presentation ‘Kickstarting JCR’. I have been working with Day Communique for a few years now (and as an extension CRX), but I always felt that a simpler approach was missing. Well, this new CRX/Sling application might be exactly what I was looking for. While some clients may require a full featured web content management system, I believe that not all will. Some may suffice with a rather lightweight application.

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posted by Shane Johnson

Social Networking Mashups

March 23, 2008 4:24 AM

I posted my first blog post on November 10th, 2006. The title of the blog post was Web 2.0 and it was a result of me attending the Portals & Collaboration conference in Boston, MA. It is interesting to go back and read this post. I gave a summary of what I learned to be Web 2.0 along with some thoughts on how Web 2.0 might help enterprises and traditional web applications. Well, here we are...silo social networking sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, etc are not enough anymore. I am not saying that MySpace and Facebook are going anywhere as there is definitely a place for them. However, I see users wanting more from the applications they use often.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

Day Communique - ClassLoaders, ClassCastExceptions, & Properties Files

March 7, 2008 8:05 PM

Intro A little while back we encountered two distinct issues that just so happened to be symptoms of the same problem. One was that we were getting ClassCastExceptions when trying to cast beans pulled from the session in JSP scriptlets. The other was that our properties files were not being found. It turns out that there is actually a quick fix for this problem. So, we’ll look at the symptoms, define the problem, and provide the solution.

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posted by Shane Johnson