RE XDoclet is a miserable failure!- September 22, 2003 XDoclet has been biled for a second time :-) Hani complains about the codebase and the way the teams handles bugs and admits new committers. I can't defend our procedure. I should admit it that we've made a lot of mistakes indeed. But what I want to write about is things that I've learned from coding and managing a popular project like XDoclet, so that you and I don't make the mistakes in new projects. I divide the problems into two groups: codebase problems, and management...http://www.jroller.com/ara_e/entry/re_xdoclet_is_a_miserable BackupRestore tofrom XML using Hibernate- September 15, 2003 You know sometimes coding something can feel even better than sex :-) That was my feeling when I coded the backuprestore feature for our current app, with Hibernate. So we wanted to backup all the database data as xml and later restore it when something goes wrong. The application also has automatic periodic backup. I tested different solutions. I first tried to create a hack around DBUnit and use its importexport as xml feature to read and write database content. DBUnit does most of the...http://www.jroller.com/ara_e/entry/backup_restore_to_from_xml |