Dazed & Confused

Note to self. Don’t trust long running Java apps when it comes to changing DNS.

Java.net has an article on using Hibernate within container managed transactions here.

This would be cool to have in our current project. We’re pretty much swamped in XML config files. Setting up stuff like this right at the source level would be good. I’ll have to wait for our production environment get upgraded to 1.5 in like two years.

Eclipse is one of the best designed Java applications I can think of. I havn’t really inspected the architecture, but from a users point of view it is excellent to be able to download plugins adds so much functionality and sometimes almost transforms it into a complete new application. Managebility has an article with some [...]

With some catches. The free plan only lets you donwload 100MB each month. Check out streamload here.

A short article with some details of Hibernate Schema Management can be found here. We used this in a previous project of mine, but had some problems with the update task. I think it was a problem with Hibernate and PostgreSQL.

ONJava has an article on integrating MacroMedia Flex and J2EE here.

MicroSoft has gracefully decided to compare the J2EE/Struts and ASP.NET in a completely objective manner. (Yeah right) Read it here. I havn’t read it all (got tired of the marketing), but they do an ok comparison. It’s just that they get all hung up in what Struts delivers and tries very [...]

That’s cool, I went to JavaBiN today (JUG Norway) and listened to Kristoffer Dyrkorn (BEKK Consulting) talk about Lucene and a project they implemented using it. A good talk with the basics and challenges for creating a good search. It basically comes down to knowing your data, target users and tweaking the results.
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Been having some trouble with my server lately. Seems it didn’t like to be put inside a small closet with zero air circulation. Note to self: think things through a little bit next time you move your hardware.
Couple of links from the downtime:
How to write JavaDoc here.
Survival guide to i18n here.