Sunday, September 6, 2009

Finally some java

After being trapped in a vicious circle of microsoft projects the last year, there is finally an upcoming java project at work. As the lone java/web experienced developer I'll be putting in 50% on the project as a tech support, kinda.

What we're going to do is a portal based on sitevision. Having fresh bad experience from EPiServer i fear the magic Strings tying together interface entered data in some spooky database with our java modules. We'll see what it might give in a couple of weeks.

My first and most obvious task is to build google maps module for the site. This is of course done using a portlet. Having never used portlets before I have some learning to do, starting in a few weeks. I couldn't help myself however... To try out to see how nice such things can done, without outputting html in the portlet code, I plugged the latest struts onto it. And, out of the box, struts with the excellent convention plugin just works.

I've put the code up on github. It's not working ultra smooth, but might give some inspiration, I'll be happy to merge in any improvements.

No comments:

Post a Comment