Portlet Development Book and Web Site

Portalbook.com is the site of Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter, authors of the book Building Portals with the Java Portlet API. If you are interested in Portlet development, bookmark this site and buy the aPress book ! I did not have a chance to read the book yet, so feel free to give your feedback as comment.

Have we lost the Groove ?

Like lot of Java developers I was very excited about the announcement of the creation of the JSR-241... But where are we now ? The JSR mailing list ( http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.groovy.jsr ) is very quiet... No meeting, not a lot of question/response. And like Patrick M. I have friends that have asked to be part of the Expert Group and never had any response. I think that the Groovy Language is really a nice way of putting Java to the next level, easier to learn, to use and still powerful... I will not go in an enumeration of the benefits of Groovy here... but just asking what the Expert Group is doing ? What is the next step for the Groovy Language and the JCP ?

Oracle releases early version of JavaServer Faces Components

Oracle has been involved in the JavaServer Faces (JSR 127) since its creation, and released yesterday a set of components. The list of the available component is availabe here. The software is available for download on OTN.