Dazed & Confused

The ServerSide has a comparison of Hibernate and Rails.
As the author wrote Rails has some interesting aspects, and they are both good for different kinds of systems. It looked really slick and easy to get a simple Rails system up and running, but I got the sense that it was extremely database oriented. It seems [...]

Eclipse 3.0.2 is out, get it here.

Todd Huss describes a nice util for showing test coverage inside Eclipse here. Looks excellent.

This page showcases ordered lists that are draggable through JavaScript. It looks really smooth, and I love these kind of tricks. I just try to avoid doing them when creating a solution myself. I don’t like the maintenance/browser nightmare JavaScript can be.

Keith Donald has a post about the sustainability of Spring here. As well as posting a slide on a success story in a commercial banking firm, he mentions that they are going to post public success stories in the near future. It will be interesting reading. He also includes an post from Juergen Holler about [...]

Dion Almaer is having some problems with WebServices interop here. When everyone jumps the SOA bandwagon this might become a everyday problem. Can’t wait.

Indicthreads has an article about why they are not using a Java based CMS, but one made in PHP here.
I also chose a PHP based (WordPress) system for this blog, and have been looking into EZPublish lately. It’s really feature rich, and with it’s flexible object definitions through the web it seems usable for most [...]

IBM has released a program for visualizing Wiki interactions over time. It can be downloaded here. It has plugins for MoinMoin and MediaWiki.

The ServerSide has a thread on wether scripting languages are threatening Java here. I read through some of the early comments and there are a few points that stand out in favour of Java:

Strong typing (matter of taste really)
The innovations that is occuring through the community (AOP, IOC etc)
Frameworks and standards (Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JDO, [...]

Allen Holub follows up on his “Why Getters and Setters are Evil” with an article on how to avoid them using J2SE 5 annotations here. Even if you disagree to his statement it is a good basic introduction to annotations.