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.
“Boxes running PHP when thrown out of an airplane land up to 7 times faster than running Weblogic”
Excellent. But wouldn’t the heaviest, most bloated land first? Ah, no gravity doesn’t work like that. Oh I see, PHP is better than gravity? Chuckle… 🙂
Better wash this down with a mouthful of Google Gulp…
Killer Java Desktop App?
I didn’t know Limewire was still around (I had a look at it out of curiousity quite a while ago), but Hans Muller in his blog on the java.net site mentioned that this Java app is picking up a lot of momentum.
It’s currently up to 1.4 million downloads a month – thats a huge number for any app, but its a truely massive number for a Java application. Hans mentions that on download.com, it’s currently 3 times the downloads of WinZip, 10 times RealPlayer, and about 20 times Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Eclipse extension points
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.