Mike’s Blog

In the last 3 weeks I’ve been developing a web services application with Windows SharePoint Services. The Services interface was called via SPAPI (SharePoint API) and the SOAP response messages parsed over JavaScript. In my previous projects so far I always tried to avoid or at least minimize JavaScript codes in my projects. I have never been a fan of client scripting and I think I will never be one (AJAX Frameworks such as GWT or JavaFX are not included here, of course). But for this case, I need a powerful JS-Debugger and I didnt know any, and I started googling it. The result was disappointing, I couldn’t find even a halfway suitable one, not even Firebug.
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I got an error message when running JSF 1.1 with JBoss 4.0.5. I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking “why the hell this guy is using such an old App Server”. Most of my clients are big corporates and most of big corporates are using only test-proven solutions and frameworks. So one of my clients decided to use JDK 1.4 for a new project. I’m using JBoss 4.0.5 because it’s the last stable version which compiled and runs under JDK 1.4, based on the matrix. Here is the error:
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In my last entry I complained about RedHat/JBoss Developer Studio IDE for not being free anymore. It was free in the beta, but in the final release it costs about 99 US$/year. And that made me thinking, what actually other IDEs cost. In a parallel project by a pharma group, I am using IBM Rational Software Architect as the main development environment. It’s nice actually, in many aspects better than RedHat/JBoss IDE, so I could already guess that IBM Rational is more expensive than JBoss, but I don’t think the price is hell out of JBoss’ league. Just see this screenshot from IBM’s website:

Got what I mean? It’s 7.048 Euro, about 10.308 US$. That means for a license of IBM Rational Software Architect, you could buy 100 years license for JBoss/RedHat Dev. Studio!

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RedHat finally released RedHat Developer Studio IDE and rename it to JBoss Developer Studio 1.0. I’ve been using the beta version since September 2007, and it has been working well for me. Built-in Struts and Seam integration, pre-configured JBoss, Eclipse WTP based, everything has just been working well. Most of the bugs I got (PermGen memory, JSP’s Validation) were Eclipse’s (or Tomcat’s) bugs, not the IDE’s. Actually I’ve been pretty happy with it. But as they reached the final version and threw the beta status away, it isn’t free anymore. It costs, like usual for RedHat, $99 for one-year subscription. I know $99/anno doesn’t mean the world and my company will pay without asking but seriously I kept thinking of MyEclipse plug-in or just the original Eclipse WTP.

At last! Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? - The best Indonesian Movie so far (except maybe Denias - Senandung di Atas Awan ) is now present with English subtitles. Feel free to enjoy it!

-Update- Because of corrupted files, I’m gonna add all the links for other parts here. Please follow the link below to watch the other parts.

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