In-house news

Not much blogging recently due to professional (day job and night job) and personal commitments. 

In Web Services News

Note that Axis2 Milestone 1 (M1) has been released at http://ws.apache.org/axis2. 

In Content Repository News

A JAAS implementation has been commited for Apache Jackrabbit, which should provide a flexible, abstracted security api for connecting to JSR-170 repositories.

MSE Scrapple has a discussion and pointers to a discussion on Topic Maps, which I find intriguing.  I plan on researching the topic more.

In-house News

Currently the majority of my time is being spent right now with implementing a reference implementation of uPortal at JHU, focusing on WSRP exposed JSR-168 portlets.  The JHU uPortal team has achieved modest but signifigant progress as we march towards a demo in the next couple of weeks (mid-March timeframe).  Portlets are being developed by different members of the team.  The Library is focusing on providing a Hermes public interface portlet. 

The night job is focusing on implementing a content repository API, upon which different widgets and applications can be built.