Hopefully Tagyu service will be back up someday. I guess people will just be using Yahoo! Term Extraction.

Tagyu Widget has been downloaded 773 times since 16 Jun 2006, and Tagyu4J has been available since 31 Dec 2005.

Update: it is now available for download at Yahoo! Widget Gallery.

I gave Yahoo! Widget a try by creating Tagyu Widget.

Suggested category and tags for yahoo.com .

Yahoo! Widget is simple and straightforward to use, and I think the most important bit is that it’s _fun_ to use! (can’t say the same thing about Swing). Anyone with knowledge of HTML/XML and Javascript should be able to start creating widgets right away.

• The use of Maven2. Spent some time on figuring out the equivalent of Maven1 goals in Maven2, e.g. distribution plugin in Maven1 is now assembly plugin in Maven2.
• Project sites (BlogMap4J, Tagyu4J) are now generated by Maven. It reminds me of the old days of using Forrest 0.6 back in 2004.
• Lots of code refactoring, lots of ‘Why did I do it that way?’ moments.
• More unit tests with the aim of high test coverage and low code complexity. The effort of adding unit tests leads to code refactoring, should’ve done it much earlier.

My plan is to Maven2ised the rest of my projects (Wish and the Blojsom plugins). With the recent effort on Blojsom 3 where David changed (for the better) the names of classes, methods, etc, my Blojsom plugins should now support Blojsom 2 and Blojsom 3 compatible builds. I’m thinking to use sub modules in each plugin project by pulling the plugin logic to a *-core module, which will be the dependency of *-blojsom3 and *-blojsom2 modules within the same pom.

My overall thoughts on using Maven as a build tool: I don’t see any reason of using plain Ant anymore while most of the things needed are readily available in Maven. At times you might need to do something very fancy where you need to create an Ant script or write your own Maven plugin.

I’ve heard the argument against using Maven because Maven is seen as another learning curve for the developers. My response to it is that I believe Maven is something worth learning and getting used to, really, it will simplify your life and it will help your projects (and fellow developers) in the long run.

Moreover, Maven is more than a build tool.

Some notable changes: there’s a new interface to get related tags, suggested tags response now provides category/classification, and the response on both interfaces returns more tag information (name, relation, url).

I initially misunderstood its authentication mechanism by assuming that it prompts authentication challenges. It turned out that Tagyu checks the authentication header on every request. Wikipedia has the details of HTTP Basic Authentication Scheme.