When JBoss Developer Studio was released, Darryl Taft, who writes an application development blog for eWeek.com, wondered, “Red Hat claims first place in the Eclipse open-source IDE stakes and I want to know why that makes a difference.” In the article, Darryl raises some difficult to understand points, such as equating the GPL to a lock-in license while misunderstanding the licensing of the plugins open sourced by Red Hat.
In trying to understand Darryl’s logic, I have read and re-read his short article. It leaves me with the question, does Darryl understand what open source is compared to closed source/proprietary software?
Bob McWhirter posts that the JBoss World hackathon is in the planning stages. Put up your ideas now. Don’t forget to get your conference pass before the event.
The title of this post is from a comment by Michael Tiemann, referring to Fedora (best of now) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (best for seven years.) It is also symbolic of a useful set of relationships that has grown up around Fedora and Red Hat.
What does Fedora have to do with the enterprise? Isn’t that Red Hat’s game?
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The call for papers for the Red Hat Summit has gone out. Submissions are due Friday 8 February, and you’ll hear back if you are selected by Friday 29 February.
This year I’ve really got my mind set that the Red Hat Summit is going to feature more developer-oriented content. And if this draws more of you to attend because it is developer-oriented content, that’s our sweet spot taking root. JBoss World? Full of developers. Last year’s Red Hat Summit? Developer-lead talks were a big hit for attendance.
What developer-oriented do you want to see at the Summit? FIll out a comment with your ideas.
Almost as if in response to criticism that JBoss Developer Studio doesn’t matter, JBoss CTO and iconoclast Sacha Labourey spoke to JBoss.org to answer, Why JBoss Developer Studio, and why you should care.
While you can freely get all of these open Source plugins, what we have also done is released all of them in an easy-to-consume package that we sell as part of a subscription for $99. For that price, you not only get access to JBDS, but you also get access to our Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Essentially, for that price, you get everything you need to develop enterprise-grade applications, from the OS to a full EE-certified Application Server and complete tooling suite - we do not provide a laptop though
(Post updated with correct URL to the eWeek article.)
JBoss developer Adam Warski writes about Instant Facelets: changes in .xhtml and no redeploying:
If you are developing anything with Facelets/Seam/… frameworks, you probably know the pain of having to redeploy after each .xhtml file change to see the changes, even if they are only cosmetic. I wrote about possible solutions for that problem earlier, but they didn’t quite work for facelets (more specifically, templates didn’t get refreshed and any included pages).
Of course, the best solution is to try JBoss Tools and Red Hat Developer Studio. However if you want to use IDEA, or some other IDE (vi?
), try the following.
Read the full post here.
