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The Pluto (JSR168 RI) Website
has been updated. If you have any comments on what we can do better, either let me know,
enter them Bugzilla or send them to the mailing lists.

In particular if you notice any mistakes or things that could be more clear on the
Using the Pluto Portal page please let
me know. I'm quite keen for the Pluto documentation to more closely follow the “Ant” model of Apache documentation
(ie: lots of correct and understandable documentation) than the “Maven” model.

I am wondering if there are any updates on the progress of the JSR proposed in
this
message? Small quote:

The Search Specification will be an API for composing and federating search queries to a
set of search providers, and aggregating returned results. The main
goal is to support search as a way of integrating enterprise
systems. Examples of use cases include a Java web application or
portal that offers combined Web, enterprise, and site search, or a front-end
Java customer support application that offers search of a variety of
back-end enterprise applications, as a way of locating all available
information on a particular customer.

I often come up with “really good ideas” for programming projects (many may not actually be good ideas, but
who's counting..). Since I don't have time to do these projects, perhaps someone else will. Let me know if you finish any of
them….

Aggregator using the Rich Client Platform & Classifier4J

JMX console for Eclipse

Proper java launching exe's, which examine the hardware they run on and pass appropriate arguments to the VM. There
would be separate launchers for different configs, eg “javaserver.exe”, “javaclient.exe” etc.

A better build tool (and/or decent docs for Maven)

A taglib based Portal for Apache Pluto

An application infrastructure thing that downloads Jars from the Maven repositry as they are required (aside – that
repositry really should be mirrored)

Sync4J – a java library that will sync two directories by using various methods including email.
(yes, I know about RSync in Java, but the email thing is important to me).

A Velocity based XDoclet replacement that actually works. It should include
a translation tool to translate xdt XDoclet files into Velocity templates.

An XDoclet template for JSR168 Portlets

A web application framework that merges the web request<->response model and
messaging (possibly JMS): A request is sent down a message bus, and services
on the bus can subscribe to particular request types (think specific URLs).
The services modify the application data model, and when all services have
processed the request a response in generated, which is sent back up the bus
for processing by presentation services.

Dashboard in Java

A project like MS Application Blocks, but for J2EE (and don't suggest the
“Core J2EE Patterns” book. That book is good, but the code isn't alway
exactly right).

Something which exposes JMX attributes as Windows Performance Monitors
(think JDK 1.5 VM as well as app server monitoring).

AustDevBlogs.com.au: An Australian developer blogs aggregator.

A Java Servlet Filter version DOSEvasion

I'll update this post with more projects as I remember them.

I appear to be running a deficit in the attention budget division, as the
lack of updates here shows.

I've been busy at work finishing off a portlet based product (running on
Pluto), which has gone pretty well. Sometime I'll get the long blog post I
have about developing portlets out of my head and into pixels..

In somewhat related news, I am now a committer on Apache Pluto,
which is nice. I'll be
updating the documentation with some patches I've done as soon as I get it all set up.

I also have done some work on a simplified vector space search algorithm
for Classifier4J, although nothing
I can commit yet. It is looking pretty promising, though – it is very fast,
but useful for a different class of problems to the Bayesian classifier in
Classifier4J.

I'm also writing a list of project I'd start if I had time. The fact that
I haven't even had time to post the list yet
kind of indicates the likelihood of me getting anywhere on them, but maybe
someone else will find one interesting and write it for me.