Month: February 2007
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OpenID comes to town!
Seems the ball has really started rolling on this one. According to O’Reilly (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/aol_supports_op.html) AOL has started supporting OpenID for AIM users. It’s only a matter of time before Google’s on this one. I had a look at the OpenID specs to get a decent understanding of exactly what the protocol was about. There is […]
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Know your toolset
Out of sheer curiosity I checked out the RadRace results for 2006 from Javapolis (is there a running theme here?) to see what toolkits the guys who seriously churn stuff out quickly are using. The toolsets were as diverse as anything you’re likely to see, some proprietary, some big-vendor, some open-source. What I thought was […]
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One step closer to fewer passwords
Microsoft today threw their weight behind OpenID (http://openid.net/) a distributed framework that helps users to identify themselves on the net in a uniform way. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6339813.stm The importance of this cannot be understated. The idea of a single sign-on to the net is The Way Forward. The problem with attempts in the past lay with the […]
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Coincidence?
Jason Sankey just posted a list of OSGi tutorials: http://www.alittlemadness.com/?p=80 You have to love RSS…
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OSGi vs. JSR-277
I checked out the OSGi presentation from the Parleys site http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/PARLEYS/Spring+OSGi. Wow. I haven’t really spent any time thinking about this stuff in the past, but it seems that yet again the JSR process is trying to formalize something that doesn’t need it. OSGi seems to be a much lighter, more powerful model whereby you […]
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An end to classloader nightmares
I have been going through some of the presentations from the Javapolis 2006 conference, and I stumbled upon a talk by Stanley Ho from Sun Microsystems about JSR-277 Java Modules – http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/PARLEYS/JSR-277+Java+Module+System. The spec finally provides Java programmers the ability to programmatically enforce version dependencies within their code. No more classpath hell!! Woohoo! Once you […]