Author: kevin

There is a SourceForge project called HibTags tha allows you to interact with Hibernate directly from your JSP pages.

Is this a good idea? Probably not, its use hardly follows any commonly accepted design guidelines for layering your architecture into separate layers each with its own concern (presentation, business, data access etc, at the very least).

This is probably in the same camp as the SQL JSTL tags, which are maybe useful for prototyping, but shouldn’t go far beyond that.

Sun have released an interesting concept on their website – a huge scrolling map of Java technology showing the core concepts and technologies: JVM, Core Language, Enterprise Technologies etc.

The whole map can be scrolled and zoomed. It has hotlinks to all the mentioned technologies. Trouble is its pretty latge, so when you zoom in you can only see a small part of it at a time. Interesting idea though…

IBM are planning on open sourcing their Java database, Cloudscape.

IBM acquired the Cloudscape product when they bought out Informix in 2001.

Eclipse have a ‘WebTools’ project underway on their site, to develop and add tools to support JSP, Struts, and other J2EE technology (EJBs, Web Services) within the Eclipse environment.

Depending on the quality and success of these plugins, I wonder if IBM’s Websphere Studio Application Developer (built on Eclipse and already offering these features) will take a hit when a similar toolset for Eclipse becomes available for free (of course you won’t get the integrated test Websphere server that you do with WSAD, which if you are targeting that platform is its major plus point)