Workflow in Portal using Java CAPS

Here is a good technical article on how to incorporate workflow in Portal using Java CAPS
http://developers.sun.com/portalserver/reference/techart/workflow.pdf

Salesforce.com has Single SignOn issues

On receiving a promotional email from developer @ salesforce.com, I decided to check them out. I had an user id, but had forgotten my password. Thereafter started my ordeal, they have diverse sites like wiki.salesforce.com, na5.salesforce.com, login.salesforce.com and many more...

Nothing wrong in having micro sites, in-fact it allows load balancing; But whats missing is single signon & co-ordination between the sites. Also wiki site login did not have forgot password link.

Its password retrieval process is also cumbersome. Amazon and Google have got it right and they Salesforce should learn from them.

Also I noticed a few JSP files, thus I presume they are using JavaEE infrastructure, so the question is why they haven't gone in for SSO?

The Salesforce concept is excellent and forward looking and gives Amazon and Google a good run for their money, but they need to catchup on OpenId and SSO. Maybe, they should look at Liberty Alliance for leapfrogging by using federated identity management.

Ruby On rails makes fun of Java @ You Tube

Here is a Hilarius You Tube post making fun of Java, its a RubyOnRails commercial. In fact, Java runs RubyOnRails, here is the netbeans tutorial. Enjoy !!!

Java faster than C @ You Tube

Just posted my first You Tube video on making Java faster than C. Here is the paper
and the open source project. Special

Thanks goes out to Nagendra (Nage), Satya (Satyajit), Ranjan and Vikas.

Java Gotchas (FindBug)

Just saw a cool Google tech Talk video at YouTube. Here is their web site for open source project.
You must check this out!

Eclipse or Netbeans

My two favorite IDE (Integrated Development Environment) are Eclipse and Netbeans.
The beauty of Eclipse is that it can be downloaded, unzipped and its ready to go! Also its CVS and SVN features are excellent. However, off-late, I have been using Netbeans more often. And after the 6.0 released netbeans has totally taken me off the Eclipse.

I have been thinking why Eclipse has fallen behind Netbeans? In my personal opinion, its because of the differences in backers' commitment.

Netbeans is backed, sponsored and supported by Sun, while IBM has been backing Eclipse.

Sun is committed to Netebeans while IBM is involved in Eclipse. (You may have heard the "English Breakfast" joke umpteen times that, in an egg-and-beacon breakfast the hen is involved while the pig is totally committed).

Sun is consolidating all its IDE into Netbeans and is also providing commercial support. Also ALL of Sun software IP (Intellectual Property) is mandated to be open sourced by its CEO. This includes its chip design Ultrasprac, which is its bread earner. This what I call commitment.

While IBM is involved in open source, I am yet to see it fully committed. In fact, after receiving nagging mail to stop using the software I downloaded, I have stopped using Aphaworks. In-spite of the fact that it has wonderful works, I refrain from using them. Having said that, I do appreciate IBM having donated Cloudscape database to Apache. I look forward to the day when IBM totally commits itself to open source.

Finally, netbeans is integrated in true sense of the word, while Eclipse is fragmented. I have a feeling that somehow Eclipse got left behind; as (I may be wrong) IBM has committed itself to Visual Age. Also the Visual Age page does not mentions Eclipse!

Thus I would rather stick with netbeans rather than being going with Eclipse.

HK2 (Hundred Kilobyte) Kernel How it Bootstaps

Glassfish V3 is based on HK2 (Hundred Kilobyte) Kernel, here is how it bootstraps.
http://www.ashishbanerjee.com/hk2