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Thursday May 01, 2003

WROX sale is complete.

Wiley has purchased 35 or so of the WROX titles and APress has purchased the rest. So there is still some small hope that Apress will help Professional JSP 2.0 to see the light of day (so don't post those chapters just yet Matt ;-).

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The virtue (and vanity) of an open source stack.

Roller sits on a big fat stack of software including Struts, Velocity, Hibernate (or Castor), Servlet Container, Database, and etc. When we encounter a problem, it is often deep down in the stack. Since the stack is open source, we can get the code, fix the bug, and even ship the patched jar, if we so desire. This is what Lance just did. He found that Roller had problems on HSQL-DB due to Castor's limited support of the SQL LIMIT keyword, he fixed it, and submitted a patch to the Castor folks. Now, as the guardian of the Roller Hibernate implementation, I guess I need to do the same thing for Hibernate.

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Mike is stirring up the Struts fans again.

But are they going to notice that tiny glimmer in their rear-view mirror? Mike describes the Webwork-2 feature set.

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Tags: Java

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