Blackboard now in Beta!

Blackboard is now Beta! New version of Blackboard (beta-0.20) is now available for download. This version comes with programmatic workspace configuration support, Json workspace serialization, and automatic jar file loading for standalone operation.

Next up for Blackboard, automatic Json based workspace persistence. Rumor has it we are working on a new persistence layer built specially to support the Blackboard's persistence needs. Stay tuned!

Svn Services

Lucid has released Svn Services, an open source project that provides restful Web Services using SVNKit and Hannibal.

You can use Svn Services to manage your Subversion repositories via web services. Using Svn services you can create or remove new Subversion repositories. You can manage your Subversion repository users as well. Svn Services is deployable as a war file in Tomcat.

You can download the alpha war file here.

Hannibal is Simple Too

So we were just reading an interesting post over at The Disco Blog regarding the simplicity of creating web services using Grails. Grails is a very popular framework for creating web applications. After reading that article we were convinced that creating a web service using Grails was indeed simple; of course we wondered how Hannibal stacked up to that ...

So we decided to implement that "runners and races" example in Hannibal. Please visit the wiki for a treatment!