Yet another reason to avoid Apache.org

August 29, 2009

billburke flame bait, JAX-RS, opensource 4 Comments

I find  it strange how Apache.org allows for competing projects as they don’t really position themselves as a Sourceforge or Google Code.  I know I’m pretty stupid for creating buzz about a competitor, but IBM and HP have launched a new JAX-RS effort at Apache.org.  The thing is, the Apache CXF project already has a pretty good certified JAX-RS implementation.  If I were Sergey or Dan I’d be pretty pissed.  This just solidifies my opinion that Apache.org is a horrible place to host an open source project or to build start an open source business.

Not only do you have to worry about some Apache bureaucrat pulling rank on you or disallowing you to commit too much work to a project, you also have to worry about sharing your already diluted brand with a  competing project.  With a competing project the “Apache” in front of your project’s name ceases to add any value to the uniqueness of your project.

BTW, I don’t mean to pick on IBM and HP.  I’m just annoyed at Apache.org.  While it may be a great place for big vendors to collaborate at a neutral site, Apache.org is just a horrible place for the little people of the world.

I also shouldn’t pick on Apache.org so much.  They are a good organization with a good message and good ideals.  I just want to encourage future OSS developers to try and go at things on their own.  Learn to promote their project on their own without relying on the Apache brand.  Its better for them in the long run.

JAX-RS Javadoc support

July 9, 2009

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Stef Epardaud has put together a nice framework that can write Javadocs for you with a JAX-RS spin.  See his project for more details.

RESTEasy 1.0.2.GA Released

February 13, 2009

billburke JAX-RS, jboss, REST, RESTEasy, Webservices Leave a comment

More bugs found by our users. See our release notes on 1.0.2.GA for more details.

Next release will be 1.1-RC1 beginning of March which will introduce client and server side interceptors. Client side “Browser” caching. Server side cache support. GZIP encoding support

RESTEasy 1.0.1.GA released, Minor Bug Fixes

January 30, 2009

billburke JAX-RS, REST, RESTEasy, Webservices 2 Comments

Users found a few minor bugs with 1.0.GA.  See our release notes on 1.0.1.GA for more details.  Unless there is a critical bug reported, no releases until March.

Writing RESTFul Java Book

January 29, 2009

billburke JAX-RS, REST, RESTEasy, Webservices 16 Comments

I’ve contracted with O’Reilly to write a “RESTFul Java” book about REST, Java, and JAX-RS.  Should be out sometime this summer.

RESTEasy 1.0.0.GA Released!

January 20, 2009

billburke java, javaee, JAX-RS, REST, RESTEasy, Webservices 2 Comments

See more info on blogs.jboss.com.

RESTEasy 1.0-RC1 Released: Need help finalizing GA!

January 7, 2009

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RESTEasy 1.0-RC1 has just been released.  Please see our main project page and follow links to documentation and downloads.  Not much new functionality in this release.  After 77 days of waiting for Sun to allow us to download the JAX-RS TCK, I was able to pass all TCK tests after a fixing a few minor bugs.  1.0-RC1 reflects these changes.

Onward to 1.0 GA!

After a 2 week incubation of RC1, 1.0 GA will be released (sometime January 21st) and will be fully certified with Sun as a JAX-RS implementation.  I need your help finalizing the GA release! Specifically

  • I need existing RESTEasy users to upgrade and test their applications.
  • I need pointers on improving usability
  • Documentation improvements
  • Bugs reports and patches are always welcome too!

Since the window for the GA is only 2 weeks, there’s not a lot of features I can accomodate in the usability department, but I will try.

Mini-conference in Nice, France: RESTEasy/JAX-RS talk there

December 18, 2008

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Stéphane Epardaud, one of RESTEasy’s active users, is having a mini-conference/JUG in Nice, France on January 14th.  One of the talks is on RESTEasy and JAX-RS.  See his wiki for more details.

Wrong Documentation in RESTEasy beta-9. Redownload please.

December 3, 2008

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I accidentally bundled the old beta-7 documentation with the binary release of 1.0-beta-9.  Please re-download to get updated documentation.

Apologies!

RESTEasy Beta 9 Released

December 1, 2008

billburke java, JAX-RS, jboss, REST, Webservices 5 Comments

Follow documentation and download links from our main project page.  View our full release notes from JIRA.  Special thanks goes out to Solomon Duskis for helping me nail down the Spring integration and for implementing the Spring MVC bridge.  This is a pretty extensive release with a lot of new features:

  • Asynchronous HTTP (Comet) support via Tomcat 6, JBoss Web, or Servlet 3.0 (Jetty 7).  This is a tiny, but simple abstraction over these APIs
  • Expanded Multipart support.  You can now marshal collections(Maps and Lists) of objects to and from multipart/mixed and multipart/form-data.
  • Atom + JAXB support.  I wrote a few JAXB annotated classes to represent the Atom format.  You can embed JAXB classes within Atom content as well as marshall Atom to and from XML, JSON, and Fastinfoset.
  • Atom support via Apache Abdera
  • Arrays and Collections of JAXB objects marshalled automatically.
  • Enhanced Spring support.  We now support autoproxied beans as well as some nice Spring MVC support and the ability to output ModelAndView objects.  Thanks Solomon!!!

This will hopefully be the last beta.  I’ve been waiting patiently (since October 1st) for Red Hat and Sun to hammer out the licensing terms so I can download the JAX-RS TCK and get RESTEasy certified.  I should be getting it any day now and so the next release of RESTEasy will be RC1 and certified.  I’m not sure how long the TCK will take as I don’t have my hands on it yet, but I’m hoping around 6-8 weeks.  Shortly after RC1 will be 1.0.

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