SpringSource, the company behind Spring, has acquired G2One Inc., the company behind the popular Groovy and Grails technologies. With the acquisition of G2One, SpringSource will now offer global enterprise support offerings for developers and IT operations that utilize Groovy and Grails applications.

Apache Wicket is a Component based Java web application framework that takes simplicity, separation of concerns and ease of development to a whole new level. Component based frameworks build pages from reusable components, the way you build a windows GUI application. Wicket strives for a clean separation of role of a HTML Page designer and a Java Developer by supporting plain vanilla HTML templates that can be mocked up, previewed, and later revised using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools.

In this excerpt from the book Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications author Alexander Kolesnikov looks at building advanced components. Tapestry is an Apache open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. The book is a step-by-step guide to Java Web development with the developer-friendly Apache Tapestry framework.

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.

In this interview, Andrey Grebnev tells us why he thinks AJAX is more hype than substance. He talks about the Java technologies that he is excited about and also gives us an overview of the IT scene in Russia.
We all read reports saying that Russia is changing rapidly and that it will be an IT force to reckon with in the near future. However when it comes to ground realities in Russia and the kind of software development and Java work happening in the country, most of us know very little.
We speak to Andrey about IT in Russia, how offshoring works in the country as well as his exploits in the Java world. Andrey also gives us an overview of the opensource AtLeap CMS and tells us when to go for a PHP CMS and when will a Java CMS be a better pick.

Python study meeting named ” Python Workshop 01 ” will be held in Tokyo on 7th of June 2005.