JSPWiki and Roller.
I'm wondering the same thing. If they were running in the same ServletContext, we might be able to make them do some interesting tricks.
Matt Croydon: How easy would it be to integrate something like JSPWiki with Roller? I really like the integration that Mr. Orchard has accomplished over at 0xDECAFBAD. I'm not personally a Roller user (tho I've played with it and love it), but given the JSP connection, I think it might not be too impossible.
Borland's de le Lama moves to Raleigh.
Borland is moving Java veteran <a href= "http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2003/01_27_03_borland_accelerates_acquisition.html"> Tony de le Lama to Raleigh, NC to head-up research and development for the Together products. According to <a href= "http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,848792,00.asp">eWeek, former Sun marketing exec George Paolini will be taking de la Lama's place at Borland HQ in Scotts Valley, CA.
Unemployment in the local Java community.
Stuart Halloway: At the last Triangle JUG meeting I was stunned by the level of unemployment in the local Java community. Here's something that may help. <a href= "http://www.techengage.com">TechEngage is a new non-profit organization dedicated to providing technical training for out of work IT folk.
Savarese on Java persistence.
In a recent <a href= "http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2003_02/magazine/features/dsavarese/default_pf.asp">JavaPro article Daniel Savarese helps you choose between serialization, JDBC, EJB, JDO, and JAXB for Java object persistence. He ignore the O/R frameworks, I suppose, because they are non-standard.