Last week, I sold my iMac in preparation for buying a new 24″ Core 2 Duo model when Leopard came out. Now it is out, sans Java 6. I’ve spent the last few hours looking at what people are saying on places like Javalobby, the JavaPosse Google Group, Apple’s Java mailing lists, etc.. A lot […]

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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of instability and memory issues in Eclipse (Europa) with WTP, both in my own use, from co-workers, and on IRC. Today, a friend sent me this link which appears to show the cause for at least some of these issues. It appears the latest release used:
–launcher.XXMaxPermSize256m
in the eclipse.ini to […]

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Having finally got Hibernate Tools working with a project I’m working on, I was pretty excited - the HQL console and auto-complete features are going to save us tons of time, specifically, time spent re-deploying the web application as we debug JPQL queries. Time spent redeploying an application is wasted time and can sometimes eat […]

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One tricky thing I’ve seen people have trouble with (and at one point had some trouble with myself..) is the way events fired by listeners are processed in JSF - specifically, how exceptions are handled. The symptom is easy to see - exceptions are being thrown in methods called by these listeners, but aren’t being […]

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