Here is a good open source data-binding framework. It’s called Castor JDO. It’s similar to hibernate but easier to use. We might want to consider it because it might make our lives so much easier.
I found something very interesting about the plug-in architecture of Eclipse. Here is the link:
Notes on the Eclipse Plug-in Architecture.
And here is the plugin API of Eclipse:
Eclipse Plug-in API
Another cool plug-in framework, it’s called Java Plug-in Framework:
http://jpf.sourceforge.net/about.html
So is that even possible?
Well, actually yes. With Mainsoft’s tool you can actually develope, and remotly debug ASP.NET code using Visual Studio .NET to run on a linux machine. The way it works is, it actually converts the .NET code into Java code.
This pictures from their site illustrates it even better. The cool this is […]
I went to the library today (Grande Bibliotheque: best thing since sliced bread) and saw this book “Rapid Application Development with Mozilla” by Nigel Mcfarlane. Although nothing we do will be “rapid”, taking a look at this book may provide some ideas on integrating the Open Source foundations we are looking into. This would be […]
I think this site might be very helpful when choosing what DBMS we ought to use.
Granted we will probably go for a free DBMS, but it doesn’t hurt to see what we are missing by doing so. We have learned many theoretical things in DB classes that we never got to actually put to practice […]