maven whoas February 6, 2008
Posted by Aris in tools.add a comment
I’ve lost my warm and fuzzy for Maven. To rephrase, I’ve lost confidence in Maven. Not the architecture, the repository and project layouts are sound. I’m done with pom.xml.
If this sounds emotional, it’s because Maven is scaring me and causing me to make irrational decisions. I’m afraid to build even though I know my dependencies are already loaded.
I’m evaluating buildr now. We’ll see if I can find the warm and fuzzy.
No help for JSP February 2, 2008
Posted by Aris in state of JSP.add a comment
I’ve been wondering why there’s not a popular java library for outputting text into an HTML page. Other language have methods/functions/procedures to escape html tags or sanitize tags found in strings. But Not Java. It’s another case of the small stuff that makes life easier being ignored.
JSP Afterburner will provide the common helpers. It’s one of the accomplishments to qualify as a version 1 product. Along with escapers and sanitizers, tag builders will be needed. But not the fancy stuff found in other java web frameworks where form parameters are tracked. Just sweet simple text construction utilities.
