Stefan Arentz

Spring 2.5 has some great improvements that make configuration much simpler. One that I very much like is the auto detection of components in the classpath. The Spring 2.5 documentation on this subject is worth reading. It also gives a nice and simple example.
For the 2.0 branch of the Polar Rose Web Service Foundation I […]

I’ve created a 2.0 branch in the polarrose-wsf project where I want to try out some new ideas.
Some things on the list:

Merge the wsf and wsf-examples into one maven project as modules (already done)
Merge the projects on Google code
Add the wsf-client module to the project
Depend on Spring 2.5 for auto detection of action handlers. Just […]

Good news for people who have been waiting for Apple to release Java6. Landon Fuller has just released his Developer Preview Release 2 for Leopard and Tiger.
This is huge because it finally allows OS X users to get their hands on Java6 without having to run it under Windows or Linux in VMWare or […]

I just added basic support for multi-value parameters to the Polar Rose Web Service Foundation project. This was mostly done using some Java reflection and generics magic.
An example will explain it all. Here is a simple web service action implementation that takes a list of integers as a parameter.

public class AddNumbersAction implements […]

Today SIME07 starts, the Scandinavian Interactive Media Event. Polar Rose is nominated for Best Technical Innovation. This is pretty exciting for us because we’ve all put a lot of energy in our products and services for many months. We’ll see what happens at the SIME Awards gala dinner on Thursday.
We’re doing a event photo gallery […]

Being in the office (thanks Aldert/Milton) with nothing but a big screen and no crying cat climbing up my legs certainly helps
I just committed a bunch of good improvements to the WSF framework. I ‘generified’ some of the WSF classes and also introduced a WebServiceActionContext.
The WebServiceActionHandler now looks like this:

public interface WebServiceActionHandler<Account extends […]

Quick followup to my previous posting about the Web Services Foundation framework that I’ve been working on.
Things are in pretty good shape now. The code is pretty much functional enough for us to start implementing some of our planned public web services. More about that later.
I’ve created an extra project that contains some examples on […]

It’s been quiet here but that doesn’t mean I’ve been sitting still. I’ve been quite busy actually.
Currently I’m working on a simple framework that needs to become Polar Rose’s standard way to do (public) web services. It is modelled after Amazon’s Query-style web services that they use for things like SQS and EC2 where the […]

Rant.
What do Python, Perl and Ruby all have in common? They all utterly suck at multithreading.
None of these scripting languages can take advantage of modern operating systems and the threading support they have. This might not have been important when these scripting languages were invented many years ago when a 386 was state of the […]

At Polar Rose we’ve been using XML-RPC for our (internal) web services. Simply because it is such a simple protocol and fairly well supported in all (scripting) languages. I’ve really been avoiding the WS-* Deathstar for a while now but I finally bit the bullet and started using SOAP again.
Last night when I was flying […]