Haven’t blogged for sometime. Been busy wrestling with jBPM at work. I’ve realised how important an active (and nice) community is for any open-source project’s success or failure; well written code libraries isn’t enough. Documentation is also really important. I’ve also started learning how to use Google’s GWT and the learning curve has really been much faster than compared to jBPM. While the difference in the complexity and the use of the two libraries might be significant enough to make any comparision unfair, I do feel that GWT’s learning curve was much kinder to me because of the documentation and the community that is engaging each other in the forum. Having said that, it isn’t that jBPM has been impossible to learn, just that I’m reminded of what Nathan (one of the panelists for Nexus) shared about the success of open source and creating the necessary culture and structure for collaboration and contribution.
I also learnt about Comet through one of the posts in the forum for GWT. Apparently, it was already news at eTech 2006. Comet is life after Ajax and is knowledge that should be added to the arsenal of any web developer.
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