New jaev Release
Today I made a new release of the jaev Framework for "advanced" e-mail validation. After being in productive use for quite some month now it was about time to offer a bugfix release. Some issues with domains containing no MX but an A DNS record where resolved. E-mail belonging to this kind of domains will now be accepted. An issue with a file handle leak due to unclosed UDP connections during the DNS lookup was also fixed.
Due to the generosity of Google I got a nice Google wave test account. Now I am looking desperately to some spare time to evaluate the integration of jaev to the wave. One idea is to expand the validation to wave addresses via the wave protocol. Maybe an online validation as wave bot is another exciting idea.
jaev 1.0 released
After some weeks the third release candidate of the jaev was the final one yesterday.
The jaev framework is in productional use at least one installation and no major problems where filed so far. I'm keeping my fingers crossed 
I am working already on some new features:
- Caching negative responses of mail servers
When a mail server refuses communication due to suspected spam, the result will be cached to reduce network traffic. - Suggest e-mail addresses
When the validation fails suggest a list e-mail addresses. This algorithm may use the previous request and a default list of domains to compute some suggestions.
If you have any good ideas, file them on the issue tracking system or the google group.
Maybe I am applying for a google wave developer sandbox access to provide a google wave robot for online e-mail suggestion. Bah, that sounds like some work
Getting closer to 1.0
This afternoon I spend some time to take the jaev Framework closer to the 1.0 final release.
The name is jaev …
The name of who/what is jaev? The jaev framework is my first open source project! Jepp, I joined the community and giving something back after years of using the frameworks of other people.
What does jaev do? The name jaev is the abbreviation for java (advanced) email validation. So the framework does validate e-mails. Sounds quite boring, isn't it? Of course not!
Excited about Tapestry 5.1
One of the blogs I am reading on a regular basis is the Tapestry Central blog from Howard Lewis Ship the founder and lead developer of the Tapestry framework. It alreaded provided some really nice ideas and introduced me into some really interesting topics.
So this weekend I read the article about some new Features of the 5.1 Version of the Tapestry framework ...
Lazy weekend
This weekend was a lazy one. My girlfriend visited me, so I had not much time playing round with all of this software stuff. Another reason for my laziness was Guitar Hero 3 - Legends of Rock. I was first introduced to this game by a friend last saturday. Instead of playing cards we played a little guitar hero on Xbox 360. Next morning I decided to get my own copy of this came. Fortunately the game is available for Mac too so I hadn't not to by a Xbox 360 or PS3.
But I already spent a little time on playing around with Tapestry 5 on my little project. Quit a nice piece of software, but quite some hurdles to get into it. The trivial examples work quite well but I still have some troubles getting my ideas working. But I guess my years of experience are standing in my way now, because I am quite aware of what I am wanting to achieve ...
Maybe this week I have some time to investigate Tapestry 5 more in detail.