Optimizing CMP Performance in Weblogic with Long-term Caching Dmitri Maximovich has written a blog on optimizing CMP EJB performance in WebLogic, by addressing optimistic concurrency, along with some of the implications of doing so.

Using Lucene with OJB Brian McCallister looks at the Lucene search engine and shows us how to index and retrieve objects from a sample Student application.

JDK 5 in Practice Cedric Beust has been in a position to actually code with JDK 5 for over six months. He has written up his thoughts on the new features, and how he has found them to be in practice.

Dear Manager, They Need a Build Machine Mike Clark has started a series of entries of letters that you wish you could write to your boss. It consists of concepts which seem so obvious to us, but which the bosses don't get.

Are we doing OR mapping wrong? Brian McCallister has been playing with JDO 2 fetch groups, ZODB, thinking about TranQL, playing with Prevayler, and looking at TORPEDO.

Fear and Testing Frank talks about fear and how it can derail efforts to find and solve scalability and performance problems. He has seen a lot of fear on his various engagements, and here he talks about why, and how.

Components, Design, and Functions Brian McCallister has kindly rambled on about IoC, and design in web applications. He discusses what has worked well for him (and others) in the last year.

JDK 1.5 from Joshua and Neal Matt Raible went to the Denver JUG meeting with Neal Gafter, and Joshua Bloch. They discussed the new features of Java 5, and Matt details the features, and when to use them.

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