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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Tuesday, 17 September 2002

People don't read release notes. When I download an early access version or a beta version I always read the release notes to find out... [Tobiased thoughts] Maybe the JSF won't be so bad afterall. I'd be amazed if all the cool stuff suddenly appeared in 1.0 though. 11:40:02 PM  comment []      Originator of Excel, Word leaves MS for startup. Simonyi finally Chucks it... [The Register] The big question as I understand it, is what sort of variable naming scheme will they use? 11:21:44 PM  comment []      OK - I spent most of the afternoon trying to get JIRA to run in a standalone mode with the new, faster Jetty 4.1. The good thing is Jetty 4.1 loads blindingly fast (no more 30 second JBoss load times!). The bad thing is that Jetty does not support any form of connection pooling or JNDI. So after getting it working with OFBiz' built in <inline-jdbc> connection (unpooled), I then set about hacking a <dbcp-jdbc> element for OFBiz that utilises DBCP to add pooling to Jetty. After about an hour of learning the internals of DBCP and OFBiz connection management - it works! A DBCP pool from within entityengine.xml - now that is pretty nifty. So where's the catch? As far as I can tell DBCP doesn't support transactional datasources (XADataSource)! At all. That bites bigtime - back to the drawing board. Extrapolating this newly learned fact, does that mean that Tomcat 4.1 does not support transactions or JTA, unless you use a Tyrex datasource (hellishly slow)? The documentation seems to skip around the issue but never clears it up one way or the other. 6:37:21 PM  comment []      Something Big in the Air. Sydney startup gets ready to launch a wireless last-mile alternative to Telstra. [australia.internet.com] Good company with good technology and pretty good people behind it. Expect big things, no pun intended. 6:24:56 PM  comment []      Marketing Software, Part 2. TidBITS: [base "]You first need a Web site where people can learn about your product, download it, and purchase it. While a complete discussion of what makes an effective Web site is beyond the scope of this article, there are some guiding principles to keep in mind.[per thou] [ranchero.com] [Mac Net Journal] 12:55:49 PM  comment []      Apparently Australia is the first country in the world where you can order your Big Mac over the Internet - and who said all this crazy stuff died in the late 90's? 10:27:56 AM  comment []      OK - if you haven't seen it yet TSS is running a J2EE humour thread. It's the sort of stuff you're ashamed to laugh at, but damn some of it is funny. 10:18:12 AM  comment []