Webbit + SiteMesh = …. well, Webbit and SiteMesh
SiteMesh is now available for Webbit Server:
Tutorial here: https://github.com/joewalnes/webbit-sitemesh
Joe Walnes
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Introducing Smoothie Charts
There’s tons of great JavaScript charting libraries out there. Too many to choose from. I’ve just made it worse by adding yet another to the mix.
Before I go on, I want to balance karma a little – if you’re looking for a JavaScript charting library, just use Flot. I don’t know anything about your requirements, but I like my chances – everyone loves Flot (including me). It’s small, simple, great looking and flexible.
So why another library? Well, I had a very specific problem… I want to show real time streaming data pushed over a WebSocket. Although many of the charting libraries allow you to dynamically update data, none have really been optimized for a constant stream of data. I tried many (seriously, at least 40 libraries) and the constant updates just looked too jerky.
So Smoothie Charts was born. It’s not big, and it’s not clever. And it only works on Chrome and Safari. And it doesn’t support legends. Or pie-charts. In fact, it’s inferior in virtually every way to a library like Flot. But, it’s very good at displaying streaming data.
I use it for building web dashboards monitoring active system load (that look something like this).
Use it, hack on it, and contribute back.
SiteMesh 2.4 released
After a long wait, SiteMesh 2.4 has just been released.
This mostly consists of minor bug fixes and improvements.
QDox is back – 1.6 released
QDox history
QDox is a fast JavaDoc/Java parser built in 2002. It was originally intended as a stop gap until Java supported annotations by allowing tools to easily get access to JavaDoc attributes. Essentially it provided nothing more than a stripped down version of the JavaDoc Doclet tool, with performance suitable for using in continual build cycles (what would take JavaDoc over ten minutes to process would typically take QDox less than ten seconds). It served its purpose well.
The death of QDox
Then came along Java 5 and I stopped actively working on QDox. The first reason was that with the new annotations support, QDox wasn’t necessary. The other reason was that it would take a lot of effort to update the parser to support Java 5 syntax (not just for annotations, but generics, enums, etc).
And so QDox went quiet. The dev team lost interest and the releases stopped.
QDox is reborn
It turned out, I was wrong. Even with Java supporting annotations, QDox in a Java 5 world has some benefits:
- Some Java 5 projects still want to use JavaDoc attributes (as well as annotations). Maybe for legacy reasons.
- QDox acts on source code, rather than byte code. This can be useful in chicken and egg situations where you need to generate source from existing source, but you can’t compile until you’ve generated the code.
- QDox exposes information that isn’t exposed by reflection, such as names of parameters or JavaDoc comments, which are useful for building tools to help visualize code.
So, by popular demand, I’m resurrecting the project. Yay.
1.6 released
This new release is a stop-gap release. Highlights include:
- Switched to Apache 2.0 license.
- Parser can now deal with Java 5 source code (annotations, generics, enums, var args, etc).
- Numerous bugfixes.
This should be enough for existing projects to carry on using it with Java 5 code.
The next release will focus on making Java 5 specific features available in the API. Stay tuned.
XStream 1.1.2 released. Java 5 Enums, JavaBeans, field aliasing, StAX, and more…
New features:
- Java 5 Enum support.
- JavaBeanConverter for serialization using getters and setters.
- Aliasing of fields.
- StAX integration, with namespaces.
- Improved support on JDK 1.3 and IBM JDK.
Changelog:
http://xstream.codehaus.org/changes.html
Full download:
http://dist.codehaus.org/xstream/distributions/xstream-1.1.2.zip
Jar only:
http://dist.codehaus.org/xstream/jars/xstream-1.1.2.jar
XStream 1.1.1 released
I’m pleased to announce the release of XStream 1.1.1 – the powerful, yet easy to use Java to XML serialization library.
Some of the improvements in this release:
- Converters can be registered with a priority, allowing more generic filters to handle classes that don’t have more specific converters.
- Converters can now access underlying HierarchicalStreamReader/Writer implementations to make implementation specific calls.
- Improved support for classes using ObjectInputFields and ObjectInputValidation to follow the serialization specification.
- Default ClassLoader may be changed using XStream.setClassLoader().
- Loads of bugfixes and performance enhancements.
Full change log: http://xstream.codehaus.org/changes.html
Download: http://xstream.codehaus.org/download.html
XStream 1.1 released
I’m pleased to announce the release of XStream 1.1.
New features include:
- Improved support for serializing objects following the Java Serialization Specification:
- Calls custom serialization methods, readObject(), writeObject(), readResolve() and writeReplace() in class, if defined.
- Supports ObjectInputStream.getFields() and ObjectOutputStream.putFields() in custom serialization.
- Provides implementations of ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream, allowing drop in replacements for standard serialization,
including support for streams of objects. [More…] - Reads and writes directly to most XML Java APIs: DOM, DOM4J, JDOM, XOM, Electric XML, StAX, Trax (write only), SAX (write only).
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View the complete change log and
download.
SiteMesh 2.2 Released
I’ve just released SiteMesh 2.2 This release fixes a number of minor bugs. No code changes are required if migrating from 2.1.
The following improvements have been made:
* The <excludes> tag in decorators.xml now takes into account ServletPath, PathInfo and QueryString.
* Overhaul of the main Servlet Filter to remove unnecessary complexity and more gracefully handle situations where the order of calls on the ServletResponse, PrintWriter and ServletOutputStream occur in an awkward order.
Links:
* Sitemesh
* Release notes and changes
* Download
Stay tuned for news on the cool new features coming up SiteMesh 3!…
XStream 1.0.2 released
Changes:
* Many more converters for common Java types.
* Fields of type byte[] are now encoded using Base64.
* Improved support for using XStream in environments where classes are hot-redeployed.
* More…
Download: Full distribution or Jar only
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