Archive for October, 2003

Master-King

# 2003-10-20 17:55:11 -0400 | General | 1 Comment

I’ve been having a lot of success with Hibernate lately. Which is not to say I don’t mind writing SQL, but I do mind managing parent/child links in databases. But persistence still totally sucks. The only reason I’m trying to shoe-horn all my objects into a RDBMS is so I can report on the data. I remember reading this [...]

Exploring the syntax in the JDK1.5 early access compiler

# 2003-10-07 16:31:14 -0400 | Java | 4 Comments

This is attempt to document the syntax available in the current JDK1.5 early access compiler (2_2-ea). The exact syntax is interesting to certain groups of people (IDE writers, Java language tool producers, emacs/jedit-mode authors, etc.). Having access to the syntax is useful so these groups can start implementing Java language tools before the JDK 1.5 betas start arriving.