Dazed & Confused

Yep. It’s here. Don’t really remember what’s new either, just got to have it. Get it here.

As I mentioned yesterday Struts and WebWork is merging. Dion Almaer also has a post about what’s happening in the java space. Especially Clarity looks interesting.

Struts and WebWork has decided to join forces. Read about it here. Excellent, this will create a very strong contender in the Java webframework space.

As a reminder of what I wrote about caching in Hibernate, Matt Raible has been banging his head against the wall with cache issues. Understand your cache.

Caching is an essential component in any ORM solution. Without it it is impossible to obtain a decent performance, and without a proper understanding of the mechanisms at work you will get bad performance.
Some products like TopLink will behave extremely weird with improper usage of the cache, and leave you crying. Do [...]

Tomcat 4 and Tomcat 5 handles character encoding of the document body and the URI in diferent ways. One of the main differences is that in TC5 HTTPServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding(…), by default, only applies to the body and not the URI. In other words, use POST instead of GET if you want .setCharacterEncoding(…) to apply to [...]

IBM DeveloperWorks has a good article with common SOA antipatterns here. I’m no big fan of SOA, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a use. It’s just that the hype has to pass and everyone has to realize it’s not something you have to use everywhere. How long did it take with EJBs? [...]

There’s a good in-depth article on Spring transaction handling here.

I’ve been using awstats for a while and I was satsisfied with it. One of the biggest problems is really that it shows all traffic. I’m not really interested in seeing all the traffic generated by all the bots. Enter Google Analytics. It takes some time to get data in there I guess, but I [...]

Sweet. Here’s an article on how to use Linux to resize existing partitions.