Blogging Roller

I attended this J2EE shootout. I was the person that asked the question about JDO. [...] I also spoke to some of the other speakers. In general, the people were not knowledgeable at all about JDO, they did not have a JDO solution to offer, so they dodged the question. I also got the impression that these EJB vendors simply viewed JDO is minor competition. The fact that JDO can be used with their existing products seemed surprising to some of them. [JDO expert Dave Jordan, from a JDO Central thread].

It has been one year since Mark Pilgrim took a stand for his right to write online and lost his job for doing so.

"The IDE from BEA is very difficult. It isn't the traditional IDE that most Java developers are used to working in, with an editor, compiler, debugger-type of tool," Murphy said. WebLogic Workshop is oriented toward Visual Basic programmers, while TogetherSoft offers a traditional J2EE development, he said. [ InfoWorld, BEA, TogetherSoft partner...]

Wait a minute here, the IDE from BEA is both "very difficult" and "oriented toward Visual Basic programmers?" That sounds like a bit of a problem, doesn't it? I'm sure adding some UML tools is the key to dumbing it down to VB level... not! I do hope TogetherSoft can straighten those BEA guys out.

Turns out, there is a Perforce plugin for Eclipse! It is called P4Eclipse. I just installed it and it looks awesome, even though it is only a v0.0.8 release.