October 23, 2002
WDSc's Visual Editor

Comparing WebSphere Studio Application Developer with VisualAge for Java -- Part 3: Using the New Visual Editor

VaJ is dead, long live Eclipse!

I'll get to play with WDSc soon, but I'll probably keep vanilla Eclipse around too - WDSc is based on Eclipse 1, so the Java Editor isn't going to be as good as the one in Eclipse 2. Also, many plug-ins target Eclipse 2.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 01:52 PM
aqTree2

aqTree2: explorer-style trees from unordered lists

What a cool little widget!

JavaScrip, yes, but everything still works with JavaScript off, so that's OK. Honest.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 01:41 PM
Java Persistence Frameworks

Java Persistence Frameworks, again

Sheesh, this all looks complicated!

I'm looking for a persistance framework for a project if my own in the near future. David's post just makes me realize how little I know....

At work, we are using raw JDBC. I've been an RDBMS man for over a decade now, so JDBC 'fits my brain'. But it's time to learn to do persistance the OO way, if only so that I can make informed decisions. But which framework to choose?

Posted by Simon Brunning at 01:39 PM