Richard Monson-Haefel is one of the members of the EJB3.0 JSR220 working group and is currently requesting feedback for sugestions and feedback to be considered for the EJB3.0 spec.
Sun’s letter to Eclipse
On the eve of Eclipse becoming it’s own legal entity and IBM becoming less involved with the development of the tool platform, Sun published a letter to Eclipse on their website offering help and guidance.
The letter reads like a plea to become involved (now that IBM will not be so dominant within the group), but I guess Sun are genuinely concerned that the Eclipse group could splinter the Java platform, escpecially with concepts such as the SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) – a replacement for Swing and AWT components that is deliberately platform dependent (for performance and platform UI reasons) – something that Sun is also deliberately trying to avoid (to keep true the ‘write once run anywhere’ philosophy).
Gavin King (Hibernate) – Good article on locking strategies
Gavin King, the main architect behind Hibernate, has an interesting article on persistence layer locking strategies in the Hibernate Blog.
In particular he comments on how technologies such as CMP are often implemented by the container vendor with their own middle-tier database locking, ignoring the more mature locking solutions implemented in the database itself.
JSR201 New Language features – public review
There is a public preview of JSR201 on the JCP website.
This JSR covers new features that are to be included in the J2SE 1.5 (Tiger) release coming later this year, including Autoboxing, Enumerations, and improved ‘for’ loops.