So you have an idea for a new Eclipse plugin – how do you get started? This article on the OnJava.com site shows you the extension points for Eclipse and how to tie in your app to the Eclipse framework.
Hibernate vs Ruby on Rails ActiveRecords
Rub on Rails has been getting a lot of attention recently, due to it’s claims for being a framework with which you can get results very quickly. However, how would the use of Ruby on Rails persistence mechanism, ActiveRecord, stand up against the features of Hibernate?
<a href="http://web1.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RailsHibernate"Patrick Peak has an article on TheServerSide comparing the two. Ruby on Rails plus Active Record looks very attractive for prototyping apps or building small, simple apps, but is it suitable for large enterprise applications? Probably not.
Spring 1.2 rc1 released
RC1 of Spring 1.2 has been released.
Main new features are support for Hibernate 3.0, and annotation support for JDK1.5 to mark entities as ‘transactional’ (this sounds very similar to one of JBoss AOP’s features)
Windows ‘Longhorn’ release – will it sell?
Longhorn is expected to be another leap forward in Windows technology, similar to the jump that Windows 95 was from Windows 3.1. The trouble is that many of the exciting new features to be included in Longhorn, for example WinFS (the next generation file storage system, possibly based ontop of a database engine), may not even see light of day in the first releases. New features have been gradually put on the backburner as the delivery schedule has been slipping, and what new features remain is anyone’s guess at this point.