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August 23rd, 2005:

WebWork 2.2: JSR168 (Portlet) Support!

Aug 23rd, 2005
by plightbo.
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Today I integrated WWPortlet with WebWork 2.2 Alpha (latest CVS) and something amazing happened: everything just worked and, for the first time ever, I saw WebWork working perfectly in a portlet environment.

A huge thanks goes out to Henry Hu who not only created the initial WWPorlet project, but also provided me easy-to-follow instructions for integrating the whole thing with CVS head (he even fixed a few WebWork bugs). This is a truly great example of open source in action!

At this point, I’ve asked Henry to think about joining the WebWork team and owning the portlet support. If this happens, WWPortlet would likely be deprecated and rolled directly in to WebWork.

On a related note, we’re down to only 6 open issues for WebWork 2.2. These are exciting times, and every day we’re seeing WebWork evolve from just a “web application framework” to a full-fledged “web development environment”. Get ready — the beta is due this weekend!

Google Desktop 2… sucks.

Aug 23rd, 2005
by plightbo.
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I know, Google can do no wrong. But apparently it is also possible that they can suck too. Google Desktop version 2 (beta) has underwhelmed me. Here’s why:

  • Gmail indexing is still going. 48 hours later. Ouch. Why not just integrated with gmail’s search and be done with it?
  • All the panels (Weather, stocks, Web clips, News, etc) don’t integrate with my personalized home page.
  • Outlook integration is still borked: when emails are moved, the index isn’t aware of the change, and so opening an email that has been moved (archived) results in a sucky “email cannot be found” message.

Still, it isn’t horrible, since I can disable the panels I don’t like and add in new ones. But it isn’t the most consumer friendly tool just yet. Too bad.