Although this is simple to do in practice, Java.net have an article walking though how to get Hibernate to participant in CMTs.
Asteroid named after author Douglas Adams
Four years since he passed away in 2001, an asteroid has been named after Douglas Adams, the British author famous for his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of books (in 5 parts).
The asteroid is named ‘Douglasadmans’. In 2001 just days after his death, another asteroid was named ‘Athur Dent’ after the main human character in the Hitchhiker books.
SearchBlox 2.1 J2EE Search component released
SearchBlox is a search engine based on Lucene, which is deployed as a Web App onto an existing App Server. The web app can be installed out of the box, configured via a web front-end and then accessed through its own search page.
They have a free (limited 1000 search item) version available for download on their website www.searchblox.com
Developing a database driven webapp with Ruby on Rails
I’m always interested when someone claims to develop a working application with minimal amount of coding. This article on the O'Reilly OnLamp.com site shows how to build a webapp using Ruby with the Rails framework. When they say minimal lines of code they really mean it.
Take a look and see what you think. I haven’t used Ruby yet either, but this framework could be a good reason to start learning…
More info on Ruby here, and the home page for Ruby on Rails is here.