About three years ago, I signed up to download a demo of some product from a company called Pramati. I believe the product was Pramati Studio, but it doesn’t matter, as the product wasn’t for me at the time. Just today, I get an email with a subject line of: Welcome to the “Marketing” mailing [...]

I love this blog post. Richard is right, very few people actually do understand what a true JavaBean actually is and/or does. Kudo’s to Richard for reiterating a great spec that most people seem to have forgotten. But what also boggles my mind is how many people are simply unaware of the JavaBean helper classes [...]

It seemed that this acquisition came out of the blue, but I for one am very happy about it. Folks at my former employer are also quite happy about this news. Considering that they have a contract with both RedHat and JBoss, this should make life a little easier. I shudder to think about what [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted last, but I finally managed to find some time to finish up part 2 of my JBoss AOP vs. AspectJ series. This installment looks at the differences between the two frameworks from a code perspective. It’s a bit of a long read, but hopfully some may find it [...]

This article is certainly making the the rounds this weekend,but I found Barry Feigenbaum’s article “SWT, Swing or AWT: Which is right for you?” to be a surprisingly unbiased feature comparison between AWT, Swing, and SWT. It doesn’t change my positions on SWT, but a good read none the less.

After some hemming and hawing, I finally decided to release the Handy Aspect Library. This initial release is based on AspectJ 5 (not JBoss AOP) and contains the JavaBean Aspect and the new SyncModel Aspect. The JavaBean aspect is relatively mature, but the SyncModel Aspect could probably use some more testing, which is the [...]

Can some of Swing threading with rules be managed by an aspect? Maybe, maybe not. I set out a few weeks ago to try and see if I could make long, or GUI freezing, tasks execute off of the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) and when complete, return the results to the EDT. This page describes [...]

Recently, I started pondering the thought of getting one of those fancy new MacBooks to replace my aging, 800Mhz TiBook. Since Eclipse has been my IDE of choice, I had to wonder; what is the state of SWT for Mac OS X on Intel? Luckily, support is planned for Intel Mac in version 3.2, [...]

If you’ve ever spent anytime using Hibernate, you can most likely appreciate the time the folks on that project have spent putting their documentation together. In my opinion, the Hibernate folks have created one of the most complete sets of documentation for an open source project I have come across to date. In some cases, [...]

Just the other day, I had to deploy some AspectJ code to an app server. I was prepared to go through the usual hoops to get the aspects to deploy properly. Like AspectWerkz and JBoss AOP, you would normally have to put the runtime libraries in the system class path, set some kind of property [...]