Krishna, Hibernate also handles changes to your object model or changes to the underlying database schema extremely well. I used it on a recent project at...
For those interested in Maven & Eclipse... Later, -- Scott This message is forwarded from the newsgroup "eclipse.platform". ... Subject: [ANN] Mevenide...
Can I run WebSphere app server on osx (without Virtual PC)? I'm in the process of learning WebSphere and would like the option of playing on my PowerBook. Of...
Try Blackdown JRE Plugin (you have to browse to get proper version) http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jdk1.4-status.html I successfully used...
... - Preferably use an RPM to install (you may need the full JDK instead of just JRE) - my experience has been a link is required to "libjavaplugin_oji.so", ...
I have been wondering for some time why I often see a simple, atomic, JDBC select query wrapped within a transaction. I have seen this within the Torque...
Sounds a bit like belt and suspenders to me, is it an XA transaction it is wrapped in? It wouldn't be to prevent a dirty read as this is one of the options in...
Doing reads from within a transaction is not required, and it can horribly muck up the works. First, opening a transaction adds overhead to each read...
Actually, he posted a message to the jobs list, and I told him to put it here. the original message I saw looked more like it would start a thread about the...
Well, I think number of java related jobs are increasing, but it's still tough with no professional experience. I've graduated with B.S. in Computer Science...
David...heh, as always, it "depends". If you already are employed with real experience in several areas where you must already HAVE a job to GET that...
... MUCH better than last year, let alone '02! It's not quite the glory days of the late 90's, when any techie could find a high-paying job within a week, but...
I'm finding it a bit difficult finding people, frankly. Therefore, I think the local Java job market demand must far outpace supply. A bit of advice to those...
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... to get ... That ... URL to ... I doubt that it works like that. If people go to OSS just to enrich their resumes, it's not going to be good, imho. I...
Argyn, That is a very altruistic view of OSS contribution process, I am not sure it is in sync with the reality. Case in Point? mmmm JBOSS. The point Bill was...
... Exactly, and I'm not the only person who uses OSS contributions as hiring evaluation criteria. I understand that more and more shops out in silicon valley...
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Well, Open source projects and corporate projects are two entirely different environments. Using the measurements from the OSS into the corporate environment...
I once attended a talk by Richard Gabriel - he is a good public speaker, and has PhDs in both Com Sci and Poetry. Once of the points he likes to make is that,...
I don't think that's what he said. What he said was that people who are currently unemployed would do well to add some OSS or other unpaid experience to their...
Which, of course, takes us back to the question "How do I get hired to GET experience when I've not yet HAD a job to give me that initial experience?" The...
... Not to use the extremes as the case study, but consider Gavin King and Mike Cannon-Brokes. - Gavin created hibernate, the best Java persistence engine in...
Look at some of the things working on an OSS project *may* tell me about a prospective candidate: - your work can stand up to peer review - you accept peer...
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It's altruistic indeed :) Ok, it's actually dualistic. I wrote that OSS is best contributed by people who want to do it or have to. For example, you are using...
... hiring ... Imho, this criteria shouldn't be one of the least important ones, otherwise it's would be unfair to a very large group of people. Example, many...
