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.
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.
Zen: Microsoft’s extensions to C#
These new language extensions building on top of C# are currently called ‘Zen’.