Category: Kev’s Blog

Slashdot have a good review on the excellent book, Hibernate in Action, written by Gavin King and Christian Bauer.

The review is similar to my own impressions – the book is an excellent read and is well thought out, covering background information and useful examples that make the bok easy to read and follow.

This is probably the best technical book I’ve read (ie meaning actually read from cover to cover, rather than just used as reference material) for a long time. All too often technical books are a regurgitation of the API, or are just too dull to be actually ready as a book.

This book is definitely a recommended purchase for anyone already working with or considering working with Hibernate.

JBoss have released a preview release of the new EJB3.0 spec running on JBoss4.0.

Further info on their site.

Despite no major releases of Internet Explorer since 2001, Microsoft is still working on improvments to IE to be integrated with the next major release of Windows, codenamed Lognhorn.

Microsoft already anounced a couple of years ago that they will not be releasing future releases of IE as a standalone product, so the new features will only be available to those who upgrade to Longhorn.

Already there is a growing trend to switch to alternative erb browsers, namely Mozilla’s Firefox, and Safari on the Mac, which have more upto date support for current web standards such as CSS, an area in which IE is beginning to lag behind.

J2SE 5.0 (Tiger) was officially launched last week, with a ceromony held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.