Dazed & Confused

Search large amounts of open source sourcecode here. Seems to have code from many known opensource projects.
Via java.no.

Been looking into some opensource CMSes lately, and it’s just a jungle with too many implementations. Logemann has a good writeup on some of them here. He also points to cmsmatrix for comparing features.
I’m playing around with Drupal right now, and it looks ok. I’m a bit confused by the structure of the admin system, [...]

It’s just a first taste. I know it’s a Trojan and a bit harder to propagate than viruses, but it’s bound to happen. Maybe the mobile companies will have a better trackrecord then MicroSoft, lets pray, but it will be virtually impossible to avoid. A good Symbian virus will be able to cause a great [...]

How is it possible to mangle your site with adverts like JDJ?! It’s just incredible. I hate those pages. I bet it has the worst usability ever. An I rarely find any quality stuff there either. I can’t see how they will survive in the long run.

Seems like the previous list i posted of JVM options is gone. This one is fresh and better structured.

I’m a hughe fan of Apache and their products. Their track reckord of releasing high quality products under a licence that businesses can live with is just excellent. This article talks about how the release of Geronimo will be an important contribution to the J2EE app server space. At the end the author also voices [...]

Interview with TopLink personell here. If you don’t know TopLink it’s an Object/Relational mapping along the lines of Hibernate. We are using it on a daily basis now, and I’m quite impressed by how advanced it is. We are daily discovering new techniques and solving new persistence challenges.

Johannes Brodwall writes about waste as defined by Mary Poppendieck here.
I’ve always been a sceptic of the definition of modules that is delivered internally in an organisation. As Johannes wrote it requires significant coordination and overhead. But I have also seen this thought beeing applied to projects where one person is responsible for each [...]

Library of opensource J2ME products here. I’ve been missing something like this for a while. Anyone got any other resources?

Oracle has launched a new series of articles called Mastering J2EE Application Development. Ted Neward is the first out in the series wich will consist of 12 articles. Should be a good read.