Archive for July, 2006

from UML to DDL

July 28, 2006

Traditionally when I am designing a project I will usually start with developing a relational data model. If I’m using Hibernate, I will proceed to generate or write my Hibernate mapping files (.hbm) and from there I can generate the plain Java objects (POJO’s). I decided to try the approach the other way around. Using [...]

rethinking my IDE choices

July 26, 2006

I’m sort of between projects and it is giving me some time to evaluate my options for IDE choices.
I just worked with Maven briefly on a project and want to continue using it to manage the environment on my future projects. I’m finding though that the tools aren’t necessarily keeping up. I’ve been using MyEclipse [...]

JavaOne Day 3

July 17, 2006

JavaOne is certainly over by now but I was recently reading through some notes I took during day 3 and thought I would write something.
I’ve completed a few sites that utilize Hibernate and Spring together for the purpose od databse access. For me it has been a mechanism that works well. If I were required [...]

more Mac thoughts

July 14, 2006

I recently picked up on Cedric’s discussion regarding switching from Windows to the Mac. As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs the main factor for me has been that the Mac OS offers vastly superior features for accessibility compared to Windows. This is still working well for me.
I also seem to have gotten over figuring out [...]