Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Despite the ongoing development and momentum building with EJB3.0 and it’s radically simplified persistence approach (similar to Hibernate), the JDO spec is also still alive and kicking as another alternative.
Sun have an article on their site giving an overview and quick introduction to JDO along with code examples.
Luke is a development and debugging tool that helps you work with Lucene generated indexes. The tool gives you a GUI frontend to allow you to browse indexes generated by Lucene and run queries against the index.
The site has a Java Web Start enabled version that you can easily downloads and install automatically including all necessary jars.
Java.net have a good article on their site showing how to add spell checking to a search engine capability using Lucene.
This article starts with a quick overview on how to use Lucene to implement a search using Lucene and then expands this concept to show how to also add in a spell check feature (similar to Google).
Ok – so maybe I’m missing the point about Microsoft’s Cleartype technology, but I just spent a couple of hours today staring at my screen and wondering if I needed to get my eyes checked as everything looked fuzzy. Seems that the Cleartype font-smoothing had been enabled somehow, and instead of crisp text on my screen I had fuzzy/blury text. Doesn’t seem that great to me, although I think it’s more benefit on LCD screens, not CRT.