Dazed & Confused

Here is an advanced gui-plugin for Eclipse. You should really check this out if you are working with gui.
Cloud Garden – Jigloo GUI Builder (SWT and Swing) for Eclipse

Michael Glögl has written a great Hibernate tutorial covering mapping associations, bulding with Ant, Tomcat and WebWork.
Link to the article:Hibernate Tutorial – The Road to Hibernate

Here are some of my most frequently used links regarding FreeBSD. They will help you out with most of the basic questions (and some advanced too).
BSD News – A site providing news on the BSD projects.
bsdguides.org – Guides for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X
defcon1.org – Guides to FreeBSD

The article Stop the hype about webservices in Michael Nascimento Santos’s blog gives all of us a quick reminder about when to and when not to use Webservices.

This is a must read if you’re doing webapps in J2EE. Sure made me think through how classloading, introspection and ThreadLocals are used in our app.

.NET is catching up. It seems more and more frameworks are ported to .NET from Java. I discovered that XStream has a twin over at XStream.NET. Hibernate and Spring also has some evil twins.
Any frameworks ported from .NET to Java?

It’s quite amazin what Google manages to put into it’s search engine. Take a look at this cheat sheet to see what you can do with the correct keywords.

This article over at JavaWorld tries to explain just what SOA means. It’s still fuzzy.
What it all boils down to is that it’s a buzzword for integration, and that when you provide services you should provide a separate stable interface to represent them. It doesn’t really matter if that interface is WS, EJB [...]

Javaworld has an article where Nader Aeinehchi uses a combination of XStream, OpenEJB and JUnit to test EJBs with a low roundtrip time of 3sec. Anyone that has worked with projects that use EJBs know that this is a relatively short time.
One of the interesting concepts of the article was actually using XStream for specifying [...]

A friend of mine is writing his thesis on automated acceptance testing of applications. He’s making a plugin for Eclipse that will let you specify flows, actions, inputs and outputs. Sort of what you would do if you designed a web flow…
Today I stumbled upon this article by Dave Thomas. He writes about using table [...]