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Programming Links

• Community Design On The Apache Software Foundation
• How to install docbook
• Rails vs. Plone -- good starting point about Active Record and Data Mapper design patterns.
• Eclipse Web Data Access Developer - IBM claims you can make quick UIs to databases without coding. More interesting to me is that it can generate JSF and Apache Torque. I need to try this out.
• Eclipse 3.1 ANT Build File Import/Export. Oracle jDeveloper could generate ANT files from a project, and this is one feature I used to miss in Eclipse so far.
• Introduction to BPEL. By the way, last year, I saw a demo of Niyamas Elixa BPEL Engine and was extremely impressed. Very nice suite using standard J2EE technologies, with easy integration with other applications using web services (BPEL4WS) and a BPEL Workflow Designer that can rival Visio, implemented in cross-browser DHTML and Javascript -- it has to be seen to be believed. Unfortunately, they don’t have a screenshot on their site.