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We have been a heavy investor, user and proponent of the open standard OSGi and modularisation in general. The disruptive transition in the Enterprise Java world from the old, monolithic thinking to the new way of thinking modular is not a smooth one though, and takes time. Last week I visited OSGi Devcon in London, so this is a good opportunity to talk about the state of OSGi, and where the Java Enterprise industry is moving.

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One of the WCB guidelines tells you to use the proper coding conventions and prescribes the use of CheckStyle with a GX-specific configuration file. One of the things this configuration file makes you do is prefix all member fields with the "my" keyword. When you do this in Eclipse and then use the "Generate Getters and Setters" tool, you'll get methods like getMyAdvice() if you're not careful.

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For keeping code maintainable, it is wise to make a clear division between different tasks in a project. The GX WebManager architecture allows such separations to be made in a very clear way: using separate WCBs. However, in practice it might sometimes be difficult to decide in what way to split up functionality and how to keep the code connected. In this post I describe one way of keeping the code connected: the EventManagerService.

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We all build WCBs, but do we build them right?

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Some tips & tricks for the updated inline mode in GX WebManager 990

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on Wednesday I visited the NAF Insight WEB 2.0 conference in Nieuwegein (The Netherlands) and also gave a short presentation about the technology in the WEB 2.0 era.

Where would the web be without links? Where would WCB programmers be without wm:link? What do we really know about wm:link? Read on and find out.

The new patch release 9.8.2 is available! #GX #WebManager

For years, GX has focused on delivering Web Content Management solutions, especially for large, high-traffic customer facing websites. This year, GX has started to emphasize the product roadmap and our marketing positioning more towards one of our strategic themes Traffic and Conversion. Let me provide some background on why we do this, and what this means for our product portfolio.

The new patch release 9.8.1 is available! #GX #WebManager

5 Spring pitfalls - The answers part 3

5 Spring pitfalls - The answers part 2

In the early days of WebManager 9, I did a content migration by reading data from a set of XML files and storing them in WebManager. That was a hell of a job! The last couple of weeks I’ve been doing about the same thing, but this time it was much easier. Why? We now have the Connector API and the Content API!

one of the many improvements, changes and bugfixes you may find in the GX WebManager 9.8.0 changelog but one I'd like the highlight a little. As of 9.8.0 deployment on SUN JDK 1.6.0 is now fully supported!

Looking for a new forum or community? GX WebManager has a brand new forum!

At J-Spring 2009 I gave a talk about distributed OSGi, which is part the early draft specification for OSGi R4.2. Here are the slides!

Managing online conversations requires a solid understanding of your website visitors. GX Profiler offers you advanced profiling capabillities and integration with all kinds of systems (like CRM or ERP) or even to connect to the outside world (like social networks) through the open API.

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