And finally, here is a new Eclipse/ Jetty plugin

No, I didn’t have time for this. But I just couldn’t help myself, really. I took another shot at an Eclipse/ Jetty plugin.

Out of annoyance with another Eclipse plugin (unrelated to Jetty, and I won’t mention which one), I realized how annoying it must have been for the users of JettyLauncher to not have had any updates the last, what, two years? The thing basically didn’t work for any recent JDK/ Jetty/ Eclipse version. Maintaining it just wasn’t a priority for me (it still isn’t, frankly), and I hoped one of the new guys of the project would pick it up and release something workable. That never happened, and I wasn’t happy with how the plugin was setup in the first place.

So… the feeling of guilt finally took over and I coded a new Eclipse plugin for running web applications with Jetty today. The difference with JettyLauncher is that this plugin is more limited – yes, I consider that to be a good thing, as it is simpler to maintain – and that it ships with Jetty (6.1.6 currently). You can find the project here. I’m back to writing Wicket In Action again now :-)

Pre Print “Programming in Scala” available

For all of you following Scala, the first real book is out now! I just bought/ downloaded it, and it looks good. You can get it on the Artima website. Where do I get some time to actually read it. :-)

If you have plans to dive into Scala and you are new to Functional Programming (like I am), I’d recommend you to also learn Haskell to get a good foundation. At least I found that when reading Programming In Haskell, some Scala constructs started to make more sense to me.