Okay, so apparently Hamas fired a Stinger at an Israeli Apache helicopter, unaware that their Stinger was prepped with a friendly-fire protection mechanism that refused to target the Apache. There's a perfect comment to the blog post: In this fallen…
Author: jottinge
I found a reference this morning on OSGi's "buddy classloading" in reference to Spring, OSGi, and GigaSpaces. In addition to being, like, informative (thanks, Steve), it also had a reference to something Steve called "non-docs": To press button B, click…
Terracotta DSO is a package for distributing references in a heap across virtual machines. (Thus: Java. I thought it included C#, but Geert Bevin reminded me that I'm an idiot.) That means that if you have a Map, for example,…
Someone on IRC asked about JDO (Java Data Objects) this morning: "Why isn't JDO all that widespread?" Well... that's a good question. JDO was supposed to be such a great technology that it really should have done much better than…