Karthik Gurumurthy speaks on ‘Wicket, Tapestry and JSF side by side’ at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2007 held in Oct 2007 in Pune, India. Component based framework build pages from reusable components, the way you build a windows GUI application. The emergence of Microsoft’s ASP.NET and Sun’s JSF is probably testimonial to the fact that Component based Web development is the future.

Open Source software has had a major role to play in the growth of Java. Apache and in particular the Jakarta project has been the birth place of several top Java components like Struts, Ant and Tomcat. In this interview, we speak to Henri Yandell, the current chair of the Jakarta project.

Henri speaks about open source software and its contribution to Java. He also shares his thoughts on why one should contribute to open source and his views on open sourcing Java itself. He also tells us about projects he thinks have a lot to offer to Java developers and which projects hold promise for the future.