Wiley Technology, the company behind excellent Java monitoring tools such as Wiley Introscope, has been bought out by Computer Associates for $375 million.
Apache Geronimo 1.0 is released
Apache Geronimo 1.0 has been released, with complete J2EE 1.4 certification.
Check out their site for downloads here: http://geronimo.apache.org
OnJava.com: Dependency Injection with EE 5.0
The article shows how resources which normally have to be ‘looked up’ by the developer writing extra lines of code, can be instead injected into the code using annotations and support from the container. App servers such as Oracle App Server 10g 10.1.3 and JBoss 4.0.1 currently support this functionality, but expect it to be supported in all app servers once we get to Java EE5.0 runnning on Java 5.0 within the next year or so.
WD Raptor 10,000 rpm IDE drive – with a transparent case?
The Western Digital Raptor IDE hard drives are probably the fastest IDE drives out there currently, with 10k rpm, 5ms seek speed, and Serial ATA 150 transfer.
Up until now they only shipped in 36GB and 74GB capacities, but WD now also have a 150GB drive… with a transparent window so you can see the platters spinning and the drive head moving. How cool is that. Presumably you’ll need a transparent PC case also, or at least a window…