Dazed & Confused

This seems to be an affordable hosting solution for J2EE with good options. Found it in this discussion.

Fowler pitches in on the SOA term here.

A good spellchecker here.
Via Ajaxian

A short tutorial on how to do message driven POJOs with Spring and ActiveMQ here. It should be a good alternative to all the MDB setup which has been bugging us for a while.

This page explains how to do a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 5.3 to 5.4 using freebsd-update.
Looks easy and i will give it a try..

I don’t usually do much JavaScript in my applications, but might do some simple AJAX stuff in the future. I wasn’t really aware that JavaScript did leak much, but next time around I’ll have to use this util.

So Geronimo passed the TCK tests a couple of days ago. Excellent work. IBM DeveloperWorks has a resource page for Geronimo here, as well as resources for other Apache projects.