Friday, March 19, 2010

Pentaho CDA - Community Data Access

have a look at Pentaho CDA an idea from Pedro Alves. The project is available here on Google code. He gave announcement about this two months ago in his blog and  it seems interesting.

Have a nice week end
Rinaldo

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Secure MySQL Database Design

Currently I am working on a project that used MySql. The database needs to be secured by searching the net I found this article written by Kristy Westphal dating from 2003 but still current.


Rinaldo

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

jAPS 2.0 version 2.0.10 Released

jAPS 2.0 version 2.0.10 has been released on Sourceforge, where are available the following packages:
  • jAPS2.0-2.0.10-src
  • jAPS2-0-2.0.10-PortalExample-Project
  • jAPS2-0-2.0.10-PortalExample-Standalone
  • jAPS Official Plugin: as usual, all those plugins that were modified to work with the new release of jAPS are released as well; the remaning are intended to be fully compatible
Among the important innovations of jAPS 2.0.10 version there is the new "entity interface" which allows the configuration of the entity types, the CMS content types and the modification of the entity attributes.
jAPS version 2.0.10 also includes:
  • MySQL scripts
  • Search by page code in Page Management
  • Update of moo-jAPS library
  • Two new fields in CMS contents: the version and the username
  • Translation of Javadoc notes in the source code
  • Update of contents preview
  • Links to a page with the current stable version number in the back office
More informations are available in the ChangeLog file.
Links
(via jAPSPortal.org)

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Apache Pivot

The Apache Pivot platform for building rich Internet applications (RIA) in Java has become a top-level project.