Dazed & Confused

Wow, it seems the Aspect people are really making an effort to put differences aside and make all pull in the same direction. Dion has some details on future plans here.

As always Rands puts thoughts into good words and writes about the Free Electron. A friend of mine has potential to be this one, just without the negative side effects.

Wow, I had actually forgotten these existed. JSP Tag Files. Rediscovered them after reading comments on Michaels entry about Spring vs. Struts.

Brian Repko has some interesting and relevant concerns about DependencyInjection in EJB here.
Also read the resulting disucssion on TSS here.

In Eclipse, pressing ctrl-shift-l (l as in lima) will show you available shortcut keybindings in the current context. Sweet. Found through this post over at Cedric Otakus blog.
Update: Doesn’t really seem to work does it? I’m suspecting Cedric has emacs bindings on. Check out http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/Keyboard_shortcuts_(3.0).pdf for a reference sheet of the [...]

Sun has an in-depth article about validation for JavaBeans properties here. It discusses some possibilities I actually didn’t know was possible, before it moves on to describing a solution using annotations.

With all the noise that’s been lately about Firefox beeing in problems because of lack of further development, it’s no sursprise that Ben Goodger answers. I guess we’ll just have to trust him. It would be quite unbelievable if the first real rival to Internet Explorer in years were to disappear after having [...]

Seems like the Apache foundation has been busy promoting projects to top level members. MyFaces, Xerces was just promoted and Lucene a bit back.

Introduction here.

Richard Grimes writes a farewell column in DDJ where he talks about the .NET platform here.
I don’t have much insight into the .NET platform, so it’s a pretty good read. Besides the weaknesses of the platform, the really interesting thing should be that MicroSoft might not believe in it themselfe. Maybe it takes time, but [...]