Hibernate released 3.0 ‘stable’ yesterday (4/3/5), which will please those who were reluctant to adopt the ‘Release Candidate’ version released last month.
“Boxes running PHP when thrown out of an airplane land up to 7 times faster than running Weblogic”
Excellent. But wouldn’t the heaviest, most bloated land first? Ah, no gravity doesn’t work like that. Oh I see, PHP is better than gravity? Chuckle… 🙂
Better wash this down with a mouthful of Google Gulp…
Hibernate vs Ruby on Rails ActiveRecords
Rub on Rails has been getting a lot of attention recently, due to it’s claims for being a framework with which you can get results very quickly. However, how would the use of Ruby on Rails persistence mechanism, ActiveRecord, stand up against the features of Hibernate?
<a href="http://web1.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RailsHibernate"Patrick Peak has an article on TheServerSide comparing the two. Ruby on Rails plus Active Record looks very attractive for prototyping apps or building small, simple apps, but is it suitable for large enterprise applications? Probably not.
Eclipse extension points
So you have an idea for a new Eclipse plugin – how do you get started? This article on the OnJava.com site shows you the extension points for Eclipse and how to tie in your app to the Eclipse framework.