Apache Geronimo 1.0 has been released, with complete J2EE 1.4 certification.
Check out their site for downloads here: http://geronimo.apache.org
OnJava.com: Dependency Injection with EE 5.0
The article shows how resources which normally have to be ‘looked up’ by the developer writing extra lines of code, can be instead injected into the code using annotations and support from the container. App servers such as Oracle App Server 10g 10.1.3 and JBoss 4.0.1 currently support this functionality, but expect it to be supported in all app servers once we get to Java EE5.0 runnning on Java 5.0 within the next year or so.
WD Raptor 10,000 rpm IDE drive – with a transparent case?
The Western Digital Raptor IDE hard drives are probably the fastest IDE drives out there currently, with 10k rpm, 5ms seek speed, and Serial ATA 150 transfer.
Up until now they only shipped in 36GB and 74GB capacities, but WD now also have a 150GB drive… with a transparent window so you can see the platters spinning and the drive head moving. How cool is that. Presumably you’ll need a transparent PC case also, or at least a window…
CES 2006: Gates demos Vista
Bill Gates showed off some of Vista’s new features yesterday during his opening keynote at CES 2006. Some of the features he demo’d did not sound that earth shattering, and in particular new features like the Sidebar sound suspiciously like Google Desktop.
Other interesting announcements:
- Gates also mentioned a partnership with DirecTV to allow subscribers to download content to Windows PCs, XBox 360 and other Windows media devices in the ‘Plays for Sure’ range of products.
- The Treo 700w was announced, running Windows Mobile operating system, instead of Palm OS (which Treo’s have been using up until now – consumers can now either choose Windows Mobile, or the Palm flavour)