Dazed & Confused

Note to self: check out this article and Selenium.

In this Java Q&A Vladimir Roubtsov explains how your java-code can read for instance a properties file from within its jar-archive

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Vladimir Roubtsov

Been trying to wrap my head around what’s the difference between JBI and SCA. I’ll have to read up on it, but the clearest article so far would be this one.

Yep. So it’s here. Geronimo 1.0 is released. The announcement also says that ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, WADI and XBean will from now on be Apache projects, starting in the incubator. It’ll be interesting to see how adoption goes.
Update: And it seems the press release came a bit too soon. It should be out soon though.

An intro to Spring mocking classes here.
Via java.no.

Seems Raible thougt The Spring Experience was a blast. I was just stuck in cold Norway.

Craig Walls has an article about using AspectJ integrated with Spring for injecting DAOs, thus letting the domain objects persist themselves. It would also be an elegant way to enable domain objects to do checks against the database that are not possible just through traversing the objectgraph.
An interesting idea, and I’ve been missing something like [...]

JavaWorld has a decent intro to Maven 2.0 here.