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I dunno how long its been around, but I was looking into some OSX Tiger stuff and stumbled onto Core Data:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/coredata.html.
In reading through it it sounds a lot like what is done with “Repository” in ATG. I don’t really like the ‘dynamic bean’ approach in either case…no strong typing and messy mappings to and from the actual data model (pojos). At least they both support mapping to pojos as well.
I like Core Data’s drag and drop interface builder feature. Just drag the component from the diagram to an interface being built and it will create a very simple (but functional) interface for it. ATG has a similar interface for each component…kind of a generic editor that provides a way to manipulate repository items’ attributes (data..rows in db) by providing appropriate gui inputs for the associated types.

I just read another article on some features of Java 1.5 [hangs head in shame for not tinkering enough on the side to know this stuff already]. I like the @override tag they’ve added. You can add an annotation (like javadoc tag’s but not in a comment block) to indicate the method is meant to override another. Helps find some bugs that I know have happened to me on occassion.

You can read the article here.

I also especially like the generics…more and more info on using them for more than just strong-typed collections.

Bonus: I heard eclipse auto-generates the tag when generating the override stub for you.

I just found out that stuts supports wildcards in action mapping paths. The example they give in the docs is:

<!– Generic edit* mapping –>
<action path=”/edit*”
type=”org.apache.struts.webapp.example.Edit{1}Action”
name=”{1}Form”
scope=”request”
validate=”false”>
<forward
name=”failure”
path=”/mainMenu.jsp”/>
<forward
name=”success”
path=”/{1}.jsp”/>
</action>


I think its interesting…certainly could clean up some of my config files. I need to get in and see if it works with the AutowiringStrutsRequestProccessor (and, thus the DelegatingStrutsRequestProcessor)

Just found out about BlogPulse (I read about it on Mark Jen’s blog). I love the trends and analysis of what is going on in the blogosphere. Also the Conversation tracker is cool too. Basically, you can see what bloggers are saying about a particular issue/topic as one big conversation thread. Bloglines has something similar, but BlogPulse feels better.