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AJAX your beans

DWR (Direct Web Remoting) is a library that lets you do AJAX style calls to your beans wrapped on the server side by a Servlet. It seems like it dynamically creates javascript functions corresponding to you bean methods. Neat. I’ll have to take a closer look at it later. Of course you’re still stuck with handling much of the browser compatibility issues when modifying your DOM with new data, but it does have some utils that should make it easier.

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Eclipse ORM plugin

It seems Oracle has announced that it will help develop an EJB3 compliant ORM mapping tool for Eclipse. We’re using their TopLink mapping workbench today, and having a similar tool inside Eclipse would be a great asset to us. It really makes mapping easy, and could save lots of time. I’ll be looking forward to this.

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Spring IDE updated

Matt Raible has some details about the Spring IDE plugin for Eclipse beeing updated and moved to a new site. Check out the link here.