Carbonado

Amazon persistence opensource carbonado.sf.net

Started migrating molitor.org, overcr.org, and the tuxbot.com sites. Slow progress but at least the new host is a much better box with better bandwidth.

Struts 2 History

Don Brown recently typed up a blog entry summarizing the trials, failures, and eventual outcome of trying to merge the leading open source Java web development frameworks. Sadly corporate brand ownership had a significant impact and probably has lead to the frameworks being more fractured than they need to be. The eventual outcome however (Struts 2) has the backing of Google, BEA, IBM and Apache. Interface 21 (of Spring and SpringMVC fame) while leaving the merger table is still supporting Struts 2.

Project Clarity ultimately failed but all parties continue to support one another and have united on several JSR's that might have a much larger impact to Java development as a whole. I dont think we'll see any revolutions on the Java web development front, but the evolution continues.

JSR-299 Web Beans
JSR-295 Bean Binding
JSR-303 Bean Validation

OreillyNet: Struts 2 History