A better alternative to Corba and SOAP- February 29, 2004 Michi Henning, Corba Guru and co-author of the best Corba book ever,made some advertising in the comments area of my blog ;) Michi has been working for OOC, who IMHO did some of the best Corba implementations ever. He now seems to work for a new company called ZeroC, which develops a new alternative to object middleware such as CORBA. ICE and the related projects look very promising. The license is GPL if you don't pay. Im actually downloading the Java implementation and the...http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/a_better_alternative_to_soap Re: Where did CORBA go- February 17, 2004 Mark Watson asks us where did Corba go IMHO the question should be: When will 90 percent of Corba's functionality be available on top of SOAP ; There are signs, that some people finally got that sending human readable messages is often not such a huge advantage that performance should be ignored.http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/re_where_did_corba_go Junit: designed to be painful- February 11, 2004 Cedric blogs about his pain when using Junit : I am beginning to think we are once more stuck with a de facto standard that is utterly broken. Actually his problem is that Junit instantiated TestCase as many times as it contains test methods. The reason is really to make sure that test methods are independent from each other. There's really no other way to ensure that the tests can be run independently from each other. The setup and teardown methods are there, because they are...http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/junit_designed_to_be_painful Switched from Firebird to Firefox- February 9, 2004 I just switched from Firebird to Firefox. Firefox really rocks ! ;)http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/switched_from_firebird_to_firefox Could NIO speed up Tomcat- February 5, 2004 The answer seems to be yes ! See this developerworks article for how a NIO Java Web Server could be implemented. The performance figures on this page are impressive. The NIO server seems to beat Tomcat by as much as a factor of 4. Source code is available !http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/could_nio_speed_up_tomcat More about JetBrains PIM application- February 4, 2004 JetBrains the inventors of the great IntelliJ Java IDE are working an PIM application called OmniaMea More information can be found on Dmitry Jemerov's bloghttp://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/more_about_jetbrains_pim_application Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project finally taking off- February 3, 2004 The Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project seems to finally take off. They just sent a document to the newsgroup (sorry registration needed) about which things IBM would like to contribute. The feature list is amazing and includes a TCPIP monitoring server,a Web browser plug-in, a SQL statement editor, graphical WSDL and XSD editors and a JSPHTML editor.http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/eclipse_web_tools_platform_project |