I’ve summarized the EJB3.0 spec (JSR220) into a shorter condensed version, covering most of the major areas that are going to be changing. You can read the summary here.
Using Lucene on TheServerSide.com
TheServerSide.com have a good article explaining how they implemented Lucene for their search engine on their site, include code examples.
I’ve been meaning to look into using Lucene on my own site for some time now, so maybe I’ll have a good read through this article and get something going on my own site 🙂
Eclipse 3.1.0 M4 includes J2SE1.5 support
Eclipse 3.1.0 build M4 (released in December 2004) now contains full support for all J2SE 1.5 new language features. This is the first Eclipse build to include support for 1.5.
Further details in the 3.1 M4 release notes
Is Apple’s iMac Mini a good deal?
Apple released their new iMac Mini this week, which without keyboard, mouse and monitor is selling for $499 in its base config. For that you get:
- 1.25GHz G4 processor
- 256MB of RAM
- 40GB hard drive
- combo CD burner and DVD-ROM drive
- ATI Radeon 9200 graphics chip (32MB)
- FireWire port
- 2 USB
- Ethernet
- a modem
- digital and analog outputs for connecting a monitor
This seems like a good deal, and compared to other Macs, this probably is a good deal. However compared to a similarly featured PC, you could still probably get a PC for cheaper. But if you want an entry level Mac, then this is definitely the one to get. Plus compared to PCs, this is definitely pretty cool looking 🙂