Blog hosting moved from 2003 Blogger to newer Google Blogger interface

The upgrade to the newer Google Blog software had a bump or two - it is running now however some features of the new Blogger.com GUI were not functioning quite as expected - the older blogger.com interface is still in use for Admin.

FYI: A couple blog postings deleted based on content

I have deleted a couple postings - they referenced KCJava subl-links that are no longer available.  In some cases the domain either did not exist had expired and purchased to host questionable content most definitely not associated with Java and/or Technology.

Maven 1.0 released

Maven 1.0 final was released this morning. I figure this is good news if for no other reason than all of the features that have been promised for after 1.0 will now be worked on. :-)

July presentation: The Spring framework

This month's presentation will be on Spring, a J2EE application framework that provides, among other things, configuration support through inversion of control (IoC) or dependency injection. There are a lot of different facets to Spring that I've never used, so the focus will be on Spring's support for Hibernate.

On Exceptions...

Tonight's meeting is an open discussion on exceptions. Fred Bloom is facilitating, but I couldn't resist putting some links out on the web.

• Java theory and practice: The exceptions debate


• Runtime Exceptions--The Controversy


• Does Java need Checked Exceptions?


• Exception Handling in Web Applications


• The origin of checked exceptions

aXe - advanced XML editor

A couple of months ago, I demonstrated using jEdit as an XML editor. I also asked if anyone knew of an XQuery syntax highlighting mode for jEdit. At long last, some enterprising students at the University of Antwerp have delivered on the syntax highlighting plus a whole lot more. Currently in an alpha release, aXe - advanced XML editor provides XQuery support for jEdit. Good documentation on their site.

Quick and Easy Object Persistence

pBeans + GroovyBeans

So, here's a basic object persistence example in 20 lines of Groovy:

    import net.sourceforge.pbeans.data.*

    import net.sourceforge.pbeans.*



    dataSource = new GenericDataSource()

    dataSource.setDriverClassName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")

    dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test?user=test&password=test")



    store = new Store(dataSource)



    class User implements Persistent {

        Integer id

        String name

        Integer age

        String hometown

    }



    joe = new User(name:"Joe User", age:43, hometown:"Bay Minette, AL")

    store.insert(joe)

    newjoe = store.selectSingle(User.class, "name", "Joe User")

    assert newjoe.hometown == "Bay Minette, AL"

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Looking back at the May presentation

I added a page to the wiki for this week's presentation on web services.

David, I left a placeholder at the top for you to detail your experiences.

Come to think of it, that goes for the rest of you, too. :-)

New features on blogger

See the list. I am using this as a test post to see if comments are enabled.