Rumor has it that JBoss 4.0 will be officiall released today… see article on TheServerSide.
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 release exceeds 1million downloads in first 5 days
Version 1.0 of Mozilla’s latest lightweight streamlined browser, Firefox, was recently released and downloads exceeded 1 million in the first 5 days.
This is the latest statistic showing an increase in web surfer migration away from the current Microsoft Internet Explorer dominated playing field.
Some websites are reporting a significant drop in usage of IE, from 84% to 75%, while Firefox is rapidly increasing.
Elevator speech: What is AOP?
Bob Lee, co-author if Bitter EJB, has a quick concise summary of AOP in his blog on Java.net.
Interesting OnJava.com article on side-effects of using static initializers
O’Reilly’s OnJava.com have a great article on their site discussing the side effects of using static initializers in your Classes, and describes how accessing static members if different ways may effect when the static initializers are executed.
I’ve run into a couple of these before, particularly the fact that initializers for static members are executed in the order they appear in the code – this is something you should be aware of if there are dependencies between the static variables and or their initializers.