I recently had the painful experience of swapping motherboards in an XP machine. Read my notes on what it took to get XP running again (compared to the 3 minutes it took to boot Linux).
IIS installations still declining
IIS reached it’s maximum number of website installations at around 35% of total websites in 2002, but has been declining ever since.
Apache HTTPD on the otherhand has a continuously increasing number of servers, currently around 75% of all installed servers, at approx 43 million.
Wicket – POJO web app development
In the current trend of reducing J2EE application development to the simplest possible form, Plain Ordinary Java Objects, POJOs, the Wicket project is aiming to allow Java developers to build web apps also using POJOs.
Wicket’s feature list is pretty impressive. The approach to development is that the HTML pages are just that, plain HTML, and the Java supporting the pages are POJOs.
From looking throght the examples though, there is still some package and super class hierarchy dependencies on the Wicket framework, so I wouldn’t say that the Java code is pure POJOs, but it does look a lot cleaner than Struts.
Hibernate 3.0 ‘stable’ released
Hibernate released 3.0 ‘stable’ yesterday (4/3/5), which will please those who were reluctant to adopt the ‘Release Candidate’ version released last month.