Dazed & Confused

Martin Fowler writes about a form of conference called Open Space here. Interesting stuff, would be nice to try.

The question of wether you should put domain logic in the database or in Java popped up today. So I figured I should find out why I want to keep it in Java, besides my gut feeling.
A couple of articles on the subject:

Domain Logic and SQL
Implementing Referential Integrity and Shared Business Logic

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Johannes Brodwall has a nice step by step post here about how to do tests of your DAO layer running Hibernate and HSQLdb in memory.

Matt blogged about Struts Ti. He heard about it at OSCON and it’s a step in the direction of avoiding configuration madness and other weakness’ Struts has been known to have. From the initial plan it seems to aim at geting closer to Rails in ease of use. It looks like a promising start, just [...]

Slides from OSCON available ‘ere. Some good examples and descriptions of the APIs.

Excellent presentation from Rod Johnson here. He talks about persistence in Java and his experiences. As always there’s good points, and I must admit I felt like some of the points on “how to fail with ORM” did apply to me. But hey, I’m still learning.