Since going bankrupt in 1994, and being owned by two other companies in the meantime, Escom and Tuplip (European PC manufacturers), the Commodore name has been purchased again. This time the company’s name is to be used to brand a range of mobile games. Read more here.
What’s new in Java EE 5.0?
Want an overview of what’s coming up in Java EE 5.0? Sun have an article on their site which gives an introduction to the changes and new features in EE 5.0.
The main and most significant change is the introduction of the vastly ‘new and improved’ EJB 3.0 spec, which with it’s use of Java SE 5.0 annotations and the complete rewrite of how EJB Beans are implemented goes a long way to simplify EJB development.
Hibernate Seam – integration with JSF
The Hibernate team has been working on the integration of EJB3.0 support provided by Hibernate with JSF web framework integration, in a project called Hibernate Seam. Seam 1.0 beta 2 has now been released.
Google Desktop security risk
Google have admitted that there is a risk, similar to sending information by email, with their new Google Desktop 3. The problem lies with a new feasture ‘Search across Computers’ feature from the desktop app that transfers information from your PC back to Google servers in order to consolidate information and allow you to search for related information across more than one PC (presumably you would ibly enable this for searching across your own machines in your own enterprise).
Gartner have stated that “the mere transport (of data) outside the enterprise will represent an unacceptable security risk to many enterprises”.