Welcome on board to Grégory Maes who joins our wicketStuff-Dojo developer team.
Gregory made a lot of patches and can now close a lot of bugs applying his own modification ( = a little less work for each of us ;) ).

Jbq, Titom and I are proud to announce the creation of a new WicketStuff Project: PickWick:

• Provides a set of basic pages to render the pictures, organized in folders (called sequences)
• Uses a nice URL displaying the folder name relative to the images directory
• Back-office application to edit the photo gallery
• Thumbnails and scaled images are generated on disk to avoid the complexity of caching systems
• ImageMagick support, for maximum efficiency and to reduce the memory footprint of the JVM
• Java2D support

PickWick has just been started, We will make more "buzz" when the future release will come out ;).

JxPath is a very usefull API to manipulate XML. But you can also use it to navigate an modify Java object : JXPathContext for java object

 public class Employee {
    public Address getHomeAddress(){
       ...
    }
 }
 public class Address {
    public String getStreetNumber(){
       ...
    }
 }
 
 Employee emp = new Employee();
 ...
 
 JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(emp);
 String sNumber = (String)context.getValue("homeAddress/streetNumber");

A very good way to make introspection...

Google Gears is an open source runtime to allow you to build Offline Web applications. Wow : now with Google Gears you can access to a client side DB, run asynchronous javascript, Store and serve application offline. To make Google Gears works, you need to download a plugin available for Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Google Offline yes! but what about Dojo Offline? The very good news is Dojo Fundation will work with Google on this Offline framework instead of fragmenting developments.

And when good concept come out, good tools appear very soon : SQLAdmin for Google Gears is a HMI to adaministrate the Google Gears DB, very usefull ;). try it !