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This test of Pets Store with POJO+JDX is yet another proof that Digi was/is right trying to avoid the "overhead" of EJBs. I still think POJO + a decent persistance layer (like Hibernate instead of JDX in our case) is a simpler, cleaner, easier way of achieving the result that can bring larger community to the project. It may be arguable if EJB is slower, but I am pretty sure writing EJB-based application is slowe/harder and less programmers feel comfortable with that.

In my "ignorance" I still do not see the great benefit of breaking-up the application in parts and need of using remote objects. As for the persistence, Hibernate looks much nicer, and way more flexible, to me than CMPs. Decent clustered cache and horizontal clustering of the entire application, I think, gives non the less performance, if not better.

That said, I still have this headache with 2GB memory limitation on 32bit Linux and it is biting, it definitely is :(

We will either need to move to Solaris or see what happens on 64bit JVMs

I just read that Marc Fleury has screwed up with the The Middlewear Company. Here is the press-release from TMS.

JBoss being one of the largest open-source players in the J2EE and TTS, owned by the TMS, being the largest J2EE community site - this is not good at all. Marc did leave an impression of an overly agressive guy on me, during our video-conference. He may need to relax a little bit :) JBoss is a great tool but it definitely is not the best and only. Neither, having that fixed misconception, is gonna help to make it one, IMHO

The new Siemens S65 is very impressive. Also upcoming, Nokia 7610 actually has much wider feature-set, but, for a person like me who wants cellphone to be small enough, Siemens folks have beaten Fins in design - smaller, more ergonomic.

Overall, mobile systems' progress is gaining such speed that, I guess, it is begining to fall under the Moore's Law. Cool.

Digi CMS on the Demosite is stable and the whole stuff looks like smth usefull, actually :)

Gio found, today, this fine tool for writing JUnit-style unit-tests for Struts, easily. Rocks!

NetBeans can be used as a platform, not necessarily IDE (Well, I, myself would not use it as Java IDE, when there is JBuilder and Eclipse, heh).  Jesse Glick wrote an interesting article about that. It's a little old but interesting. From there is the link to the products that do use NetBeans as a platform. Lots of familiar names, huh?

Struts Freebook PDF by Rick Hightower from TheServerSide.com and SourceBeat Publications

Very nice UML Tool, based on ArgoUML:
http://www.gentleware.com/ - Poseidon for UML.

The Community Edition is free, which is quite an OK edition, I must say.

What really pissed me off, in pure ArgoUML is that sequence diagram is not supported there. Come on!

Poseidon has support for more diagrams (including the sequence one) and is, also, more user-friendly. Although you will find _a lot_ of similiarities with ArgoUML, of course. I look at Poseidon as "new, better version of ArgoUML" :) Well, of course - without the nice side of being open-source but... well, life is not always perfect is it? To "compensate" Poseidon comes with the nice multi-platform installer backed-up by InstallAnywhere and does not open that stupid additional black window on the startup that Argo did.

Bottomlime - I do like Poseidon4UML and highly recommend it.