As enterprise programmers, we don't "program" quite so much any more. What we do is write systems, fairly small units that leverage libraries to do stuff.

I'm a bit miffed. I apologize. Really. I want a new aggregator, I'm really a bit busy to write one, and I keep thinking that somewhere we (as a community) could write something that ended up not being a ton of crap.

Would you be willing to test out instantiation of a namespace in JNDI on Glassfish startup? I can't figure out for the life of me why I can't get JMS resources to survive a restart.

Tim Bray posted "Two Approaches to Journalism" in which he said, among other things:TheServerSide.com ran a story whose title was a lie, without talking to me or anyone, presumably looking for flameage, and they got some.Well, Tim, in all honesty, I

Setting up Jackrabbit's shared deployment model in Glassfish is trivial. Here's how I did it, and good on the Jackrabbit people for actually making it easy to log in.

I have yet to see where the EJB3 references tell me how to properly *look up* EJB3 session beans from a nonmanaged class.

I've been playing with Glassfish for a while now, for a number of reasons, but one of them is that I wanted to start evaluating Glassfish itself, which forms the basis for Sun's AppServer 9.

I have a project where I need to do something constantly, roughly every minute. There are a lot of ways for me to do this with external libraries, but I want the EJB3 spec to enable me to initialize timers without involving application code.

I've been playing with the Netbeans 5.5 preview; here are more little, uh, things I've noticed about it so far.

Firefox is simply not working well enough, consistently enough, for me to stay with it. I can't stand IE, so Opera wins... as long as it works better than Firefox.

Bruce Tate said it took him four months to design a data model. That doesn't make sense - while I don't know what his data model looks like, I just modeled a complete structure for myself in about an hour, including the time it took to learn EJB3.

Sys-Con is telling people through its newsletter that Oracle might be considering buying JBoss. I think that's irresponsible, in a lot of ways - the article is written as if it *might* be true, but it simply isn't true. Period.

Whew! The not-being-home part of my longest vacation ever (except my honeymoon) is over, and lots has happened. Hospital visits, falls, caves, Java in Action, and... no work.

I was talking to Geert Bevin today, about testing UI interaction. I'm used to scripts; I think XQuery is the way to go, pages of XQuery tied to responses. Geert skewered me with my own employment, though.

I was reading some news this morning and saw this headline: "Sun Aims Open-Source Efforts at Competitors." It's another example of where news vendors take the chance to rake Sun over the coals. That bothers me.