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Been watching presentations and demonstrations of Rails and Trails. Bookmarks online http://del.icio.us/cpjobling. Rails is a rapid web application development framework that makes developing CRUD interfaces a snap. It is based on the Active Record pattern, is written in Ruby and has a set of smart classes that automates initial view generation and the controller. By default, the model is essentially an active record. Trails is a Java framework inspired by Rails that leverages Hibernate, Tapestry and Spring to provide similar functionality....

I saw an article on this “coomunity bookmarking” site some time ago (in Thursday Guardian OnLine supplement I think) and signed up. Didn’t quite get it at the time, but today I read another Guardian OnLine article and I saw Jon Udell’s screencast. Now I think I start to understand. It’s a better way to do the kind of “link blogging” that I want to do when I haven’t got the time to write a more detailed entry....

< p>Other JavaPolis presentations that I need to check out are: J2ME Realtime Java AOP/AspectJ EJB 3.0 Hibernate JDO JavaServerFaces Spring Eclipse Struts Tapestry, and TestNG

Just watched Tim Boudreau’s JavaPolis presentation/demo of Netbeans 4.0. Looks good and worth a look over the weekend. I’m keen to try out the much discussed Eclipse project import feature and the mobile application developer tools which, if they work, will give me something more concrete to put into my final Software Applications lectures on “Embedded Systems”. < p>The last time I used Netbeans, I was put off by the fact that it came with it’s own copy of the JDK (which I already had) so it was a bit of a disk hog for no good reason; Mounting a CVS repository only worked if you had a CVS client installed and Ant was not as well integrated....

There’s a complaint in Britain that if you are waiting for a bus, you’ll be waiting for a long time, then two will come along at once! On Wednesday this week, I was burning the midnight oil trying to beg, borrow and steal some examples of realistic Groovlets (servlets in Grrovy) for my final lecture on Scripting Languages in which I wanted to cover web applications. Not one example in all the articles I read on the groovy home site could tell me how to actually get the parameters of a HTTP request as a map (I found out from the javax....