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How to make money from open source / open source revenue models 0

Open source

19 Jul, 2008

How to make money from open source / open source revenue models

A friend asked me the other day: “I heard you work for an open source company, must be frustrating not making money from your code… how can you make money if you give away your code and IP?”

Well, I have been asked this question many times, and it is time I put my answer in writing:
You do not make money out of open source. You can, however, use open source to create profitable revenue channels and sell other products and services that are related to open source.
There are at least three revenue models based on open source leveraging:

Tip: how to write an XML document with JSP for AJAX applications 2

AJAX / Java / Tips

18 Jul, 2008

Tip: how to write an XML document with JSP for AJAX applications

AJAX applications usually connect to a server side application and request data in the form of XML. When the server side is written in JSP (Java Server Pages), for example a spring-framework web application with JSP views, writing the XML response is sometimes problematic.

The problem:

When using JSP to format the data in to XML and send it to the AJAX application, the XML is not recognized as XML (empty DOM object) and the AJAX application does not function properly.

Removing the Ant Configuration Selection in eclipse 10

Java / Tips

18 Jul, 2008

Removing the Ant Configuration Selection in eclipse

When I updated to eclipse 3.2 I found a new irritating feature:

The problem:
The first time when selecting the Run As-> Ant build… on any of the ant tasks (targets) you have in your build.xml file, you get a window called “modify attributes and launch.”

After that any time you try to run an ant task (with or without the build…) you get an annoying “Ant Configuration Selection” window that makes the ant running process a click longer.

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