Rumor has it that the new Macs based on Intel chips will be shipping next year on June 6, according to this article on The Register.
This is later than the previously expected early 2006 that was previously hinted at by Jobs.
Example app walkthrough using Java Persistence API in Java EE 5
If you are looking for a quick start to using the Java Persistence API in Java EE 5, Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo has a short article that walks you through developing a simple Entity Bean using the annoutations to specify the ORM mappings.
Eclipse WebTools Project (WTP) 1.0RC1 available for download
The Eclipse developers have been busy working on a set of all-singing, all-dancing plugins to help developers use Eclipse to develop J2EE applications, called the Web Tools Project.
The WTP has three subprojects:
- Web Standard Tools (WST): a collection of common plugins to aid development, including XML, XHTML editors and validators.
- Java Standard Tools (JST): plugins to support development and deployment of J2EE applications to J2EE 1.4 servers.
- JavaServerFaces (JSF): editors and support for developing JSF web frontends. Will not initially be available, until the 1.5 release.
The 1.0RC1 version was just recently released for download.
This is great news, but there have been similar plugins out there for a long time now (Lomboz, MyEclipse), that already offer all these features, so it seems the WTP project may have been too late. Also, Java EE 5 is around the corner, and where is the EE 5 support? (at least in early adopter form anyway?)
Spring Experience 2005 conference next week
Next week (Dec 7 – 10) is the Spring Experience 2005 conference being held in Florida.
The main developers of Spring will be presenting, including Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller.
Some of the topics being covered include: Spring Basics, Testing with Spring, Spring ORM, Advanced IoC.
This should be a great conference to get immersed in this framework which is starting to pick up critical mass and a lot of users.