Earlier this week the Ribbit Development Team released an update the the Java SDK. The release notes are posted below, and if you are interested in learning more about the Java SDK, you can find articles, tutorials, sample code and more information online in the developer center.
Submitted by gmarcionetti on Wed, 2010-05-12 17:44
We've recently added a new set of objects to our statically-typed-language SDKs (.Net, Silverlight and Java). These objects are a set of typed collections, aimed at making your client code easier to write and clearer to understand.
Previously, if you were using the getUsers() method, your code would have looked something like this:
In .NET:
RibbitCollectionResponse users = new RibbitUser().getUsers();
UserResource user = (UserResource)users.Results[0];
When you Start an App in the Ribbit Developer Center, Ribbit gives you two options for creating and deploying applications. Soon, with the addition of the account management portal, you’ll have three options from which to choose:
I recently attended TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas. All in all, it was a great event—I had the chance to attend many of the keynotes and sessions and interact with developers.
For those of you who are not familiar with this event, a little background: The symposium is run by TechTarget, which hosts TheServerSide website. The site caters to the enterprise Java community and focuses on server-side Java implementations.
Throughout the symposium, a number of themes emerged indicating the direction the enterprise Java community seems to be headed:
When you 