All about technology
Johannes Brodwall has a good article over at java.net on implementing lazy loading. Of course most ORM tools implement this already, and you would probably use them instead. But the article gives good background for the mechanisms present in current ORM solutions. And as Johannes points out; sometimes you might just have to implement some stuff yourself because the tools just doesn’t cut it.
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ThoughtWorks has released Buildix which is a Linux compilation including the essentials as SubVersion, Apache, Trac. I’m gearing up for a separate build server these days, and it takes too much time to configure. I’ll might have a look at Buildix sooner or later. The only thing I’d probably exchange here would be CruiseControl with Continuum, but I havn’t really testet that yet either, so I’m not really sure if it’s that much better.