Open Source at Work
September 28th, 2002 by HenMy colleagues have been having a good month for open source stuff.
Jim Birchfield has been working on plugins for Maven and Intellij’s IDEA. All very cool. He’s been slamming away at getting XDoclet working inside Maven, and he has an SQLViewer plugin for IDEA which is taking off a lot.
Eric Alexander has been playing with various Jakarta components in his spare time. He’s got some interesting ideas on glueing various components together and has an AntTask for scp-ing which we’ve been using at work.
The rest of the department is being hit with the move from Ant to Maven, which can be quite a chunk of magic the first few times. Our internal Maven repository is starting to work properly and we’re completing our move from Tapestry to Struts. All with the usual tight deadlines that we all face etc. It’s nice to have interesting things going on.

September 29th, 2002 at 7:26 am
hi,
you mentioned migrating from Tapestry to Struts… what was the reason for that? i’m about to use tapestry in a project, so i’m interested to know your opinion..
thx,
viktor
October 3rd, 2002 at 9:20 am
Yes, Jim was working on that JMX console last I heard of him … I hate to lose one of the fold.