Archive for October, 2006

The JasperReports book lives!

Thanks to all those who replied.  The survey convinced the publisher that there was indeed sufficient interest, so we’ll keep plugging away on the book.  We’re having to do a little restructuring due to some logistic issues on the back end, but we hope to have the book finished by December, to print by January, [...]

gosling no longer needs 1.6

In one of the most heart wrenching svn commits I’ve ever made, I removed the 1.6 dependency from gosling. As I outline here, most of this started out as an excuse to play with 1.6. But that dependency, will limit gosling’s adoption for the next few years so I decided to [...]

Gosling

If you haven’t yet heard of gosling, here’s the scoop: gosling is a pure Java build system based on Apache’s Ant. Instead of writing your build script in XML, you write it in pure Java. gosling will compile your Gosling.java file on the fly and then execute it. Since it’s based [...]