Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
I’ve put together a recommended book list for Java developers that covers some of the more useful books I’ve come across.
It includes both technical and non-technical books, books that I think are well worth reading for building skills and just for reference.
OnJava.com has an article sumarizing their most popular articles in 2004.
Not suprisingly, Hibernate and Eclipse were the most popular topics of the year (not suprising to me anyway as I’ve been actively using both for the past year both at work and at home).
This caught my eye as their performance stats compared to other traditional RDBMS are staggering.
Prevayler is an in-memory Object persistence mechanism as a direct replacement for a database. The in-memory representation of your objects is the database, so their is no need to query the objects to retrieve them. This also means you can navigate object graphs as you normally would, without using any complex query language.
So how does it keep data persistent? Apparently it serializes all your object out to disk periodically.
Incredibly simple, but I bet incredibly effective. If you don’t have a need for GB of relational data, the this seems like an ideal solution for small webapps etc.
JavaPolis conference slides are online on their wiki website.
Slides for some interesting sessions are on their site, including: