Saturday, May 31, 2008

About licensing issues related to GWT Libraries

A couple of weeks ago, I've been looking for GWT Libraries in order to develop GWT Applications quickly. I found some GWT Libraries such as GWT Ext, GWT incubator, and Ext GWT (Also knowing as GXT). With respect to GWT Ext, this library has a lot of widgets that we need to develop the Application. However, people have written on several posts that it's inefficient due to third party Java Script library it uses.

About GXT, I though I couldn't use this library because it has dual licensing. I had to write an e-mail to GXT Team in order to know if I could use GXT with System that has GPLv2 License. Fortunately, the answer was the following.

Juan,

If you add "or any later version" to the GPL v2, you will remove any technical issue you might have. We don't have an issue with GPLv2. We don't see a conflict.

The Ext Team

I'm really happy with this answer because currently, GXT is one of the best library that I found.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Problems installing PL/Java on Mac OS 10.4.11

A couple of days ago, I tried to install PL/Java with PostgreSQL on my new Laptop. I have to tell you it has been challenging since PL/Java packages have been compiled for Windows and Linux distributions. I downloaded all available packages and none of them worked on my Mac. Several errors were launched, one of them was that pljava library couldn't be loaded because the first eight bytes are unknown. Finally, I downloaded the Source Code and I decided to compile. I put all the compiled files on their proper paths and then PL/Java could be installed on the database schema.

Launching Macbook Pro

A couple of weeks ago, I got a new Macbook Pro Laptop. I wanted to share this notice with you because I'm very glad with my new attainment. For me, the features of this Laptop are unbelievable. It has 4 Gb of RAM, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed, 15.4-inch (diagonal) antiglare widescreen TFT LED backlit display with support for millions of colors; optional glossy widescreen display and 160 Gb of HD. I think it's one of the best laptop that you can find in the market.