Niko & Java

Thanks to Stephan I got fascinated about Common Controls. A Very nice and clear JSP tag library (integrated with Struts) to ease developing web applications with tables, trees, tabs and menus.

Something I was missing from IDEA, the auto-generation of hashcode and equals methods for new POJOs is also available in eclipse, of course.

Link: Commonclipse eclipse Plug-in - Commonclipse eclipse plug-in

XML.com article about Kowari, which is an Java open-sourced triplestore optimized for RDF storage

Link: XML.com: A First Look at the Kowari Triplestore

Compass is a powerful, transactional, high performance object/search engine mapping (OSEM) and persistence framework for Java. A promising project at sourceforge making use of Lucene.

Update: The project moved it’s homepage now over to www.compassframework.org.

Interesting article at TheServerSide about the spring web flow module, which will be part of the next major release (1.3) of the spring framework. Modelling the process flow in an UML state diagram allows easily to derive an XML definition for states and transition as input for the web flow engine.

Weblog by Mike Thomas called “somewhat daily mutterings” a professional software developer from Denver.

Link: samoht.com weblog : /

Java framework that manages skins for web applications by processing snippets of HTML with Velocity. A struts plug-in is also available.

Link: Xkins framework

Another article showing very concentrated an AJAX scenario at javarss.com (via www.theserverside.com)

Link: AJAX in Action

Interesting to see an entry about exact the problem I was looking at: comparing the performance of the three main-players of open-source connections pools: c3p0, commons dbcp and proxool .

Link: Furious Purpose

Nice articles from the Book “Hibernate: A J2EE Developer’s Guide” about using different connection pool products and caching strategies.

Link: Improving Hibernate’s Performance

Drools is an augmented implementation of Forgy’s Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language. Adapting Rete to an object-oriented interface allows for more natural expression of business rules with regards to business objects.

Looks very promising for next logical abstraction for struts.

Link: Spring WebFlow Sneak Preview: Reuse and Framework Abstraction