12 December 2002

12Dec2002

What Does Maven Do?

By carlfish on

Everybody seems to have glowing praise of Maven at the moment. The problem is, it's not immediately apparent from the site's front page what Maven actually does. On one hand, I really don't have the time to play around with Maven until I grok it. On the other hand, if I did grok it, perhaps it would save me an inordinate amount of time in the future? I don't know.

12Dec2002

Why Hibernate Rocks

By carlfish on

Hibernate was brought up to 1.0 in a very short space of time, by two programmers working with one of the most efficient motivations a programmer can have: frustration. If any of you have ever done any significant work with Entity EJBs in Websphere 3.5, you'll know exactly the frustration of which I speak.