I’ve frequently browsed Erik Thauvin’s Linkblog since he does an excellent job of trawling the net and picking out the most interesting and relevant Java and technology news items (and I’ve even had a couple of my own posts linked there). Sad to say that Erik has decided to end the blog… that’s a big loss for the community to lose such a good news resource…
Making changes to /etc/profile
If you make changes to /etc/profile and want them to take effect immediately without rebooting, run the script using . ./profile (assuming the file has execute flag set, if not chmod +x profile to set it).
Interview with Rod Johnson on TheServerSide – Spring 2.1, Spring Web Flow and Spring Batch
TheServerSide.com have a video interview with Rod Johnson on their site – in the interview they discuss Spring 2.1, Spring Web Flow and Spring Batch.
JBoss App Server 4.2 released – includes key Java EE 5 features
JBoss AS 4.2 was released on May 11 this month and includes many key features from Java EE 5, such as EJB3.0, JSP 2.1 and Servlet 2.5.
JBoss AS 5.0 will be the complete EE 5 implementation, but 4.2 has been made available to get these features out now, rather than waiting for 5.0 to be completed.