Free software

TheOpenCD. (AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, MoinMoin, PDFCreator, 7-zip, Notepad2, etc.)

Logging to syslog

Enable network messages:
* add "-r" option to /etc/sysconfig/syslog (Fedora Core 4)
* add the "local6" feature to /etc/syslog.conf

local6.*   /var/log/local6.log

* restart syslog (/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart)

Check if syslog is listening:

root@yozi:/etc/rc.d/init.d> netstat -l
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State
udp        0      0 *:syslog                    *:*

Rotate the new log:
* add /var/log/local6.log to /etc/logrotate.d/syslog (Fedora Core 4)
* logrotate is started by anacron (/etc/cron.daily/logrotate)

Code generation

* JAG
* OpenXava and discussion at theserverside

Content Management

• IBM web content management
  
  • CMSwire article (Aug. 2004)
    
  • DeveloperWorks article (Jul 2004)
  • DB2 Content Management.
  • IBM Workplace Web Content Management.
    
• JSR 170:
  • Introduction (developerworks, Aug. 2005).
  • Apache JackRabbit (full JSR170 implementation, 1.0 in April, 2006).
  • JLibrary: Rich GUI (based on JSR170 engine : JackRabbit, see discussion at theserverside)
    
  • Alfresco: JSR170 repository
    
  • Magnolia (sourceforge, webapp, w/versioning, w/o workflow, jspx-based templating w/special taglib, community edition is free, enterprise edition is licensed per processor per year).
    
  
  

SOA

Recent articles:

• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/content/ESBParadigm/article.html - The role of ESB, strategy and methodology, vendors and tools, including open source.
  

My current focus is SOA lifecycle.

• analysis and design
• development
• operation
• lifecycle support

Sources of information:

• Thomas Erl’s "Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design"
• IBM's "Service-Oriented Architecture Compass", SOAD ("Elements of Service-Oriented Analysis and Design") and SOMA ("Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture: How to Identify, Specify and Realize Services")
• W3C Web Services Architecture.
  

BEA Resurces

• BEA AquaLogic User Interaction

Software Development Resources

• EJB3 Persistence Jumpstart
• A Collection of JVM Options
• What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source
• The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security