I’ve been too far out of the loop lately with recent technologies. However, I’ve been rapidly making up for lost time now that I have some solid reading time on the commuter rail. TechCrunch is a great site for keeping up with all sorts of new applications coming out, but this page just lists Ajax applications. I just looked at the Kiko calendar app and it’s pretty slick for a beta product.
That, some updates to the AppFuse project and a newly discovered Trails project left me with quite a bit to read through and digest. I’ve spent quite a bit of time reviewing the JBoss demo apps as well, as they are all built on java 1.5 and use EJB3. Unfortunately, my current project is still java 1.4 and very old (over 4 years now), so I usually delve into the demo apps to get a grip on them. I’m quite envious of the simplifications to J2EE webapps and the new features like Annotations and Generics. The simplified for loop is also quite nice. It’s good to see the language gurus weeding out the syntactic obstacles in these updates.
