April 27th, 2008

LGPL, dynamic linking and Java

Just came across this one:

It has always been the FSF’s position that dynamically linking applications to libraries creates a single work derived from both the library code and the application code. The GPL requires that all derivative works be licensed under the GPL, an effect which can be described as “hereditary.” So, if [...]

April 27th, 2008

MyGWT ist no more…

Maybe some of you already visited the project homepage of MyGWT in the last days. Yes, MyGWT is gone. The project got finally “moved” to the extjs project, something that was announced long ago.

I was surprised to see GXT getting GPLed. Or better, dual licensed. There is the open source license (GPL), and [...]

March 31st, 2008

Session: The future of Java EE

I am very happy to moderate a q&a session with Rod Johnson at the upcoming Jax conference. Our q&a comes right after his keynote:

The Future of Enterprise Java – Q&A with Rod Johnson In this Q&A Session you can ask Rod Johnson himself about the future of Enterprise Java. Rod is one of [...]

March 14th, 2008

Androidology

I searched a little for Android blogs, articles, videos and I found this nice trilogy from Mike. If you are interesting in learning more than just buzzwords arround Android have a look at theese:

Part 1 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike gives an overview [...]

March 7th, 2008

Partytime in Stuttgart, the Spring release Party

On the 3rd March (monday this week) the JUGS organized the so called Spring Release Party. As a matter of fact, there was nothing actually released (ok, Sprin 2.5.2 came out the day before, but who wants to make a party on a minor release…), but there was still much to show and much [...]