POJO Mojo

Do you frequent javalobby? You should. Rick Ross, the CEO there, is one of the most technically sharp folks I have met and he works diligently to build awesome tools to make community-life a joy.

His most recent newsletter talks about the new dzone.com site he just completed on top of Spring 2.0 and iBatis. I must say, that his endorsement of Spring is well deserved. The Interface 21 guys are solving very hard framework problems that we have all been living with in JEE.

Most interestingly, however, Rick expounds on the virtues of iBatis over Hibernate when building what I (and others long before me) call(ed) 2.5 tier applications. When the Java guy can't or doesn't want to own the database schema-- in other words he cannot allow it to be driven purely by the object domain model--and stored procs share in the logic "workload", what is he to do? I was wondering if iBatis was indeed the tool that would allow db developers to play in stored procs and simultaneously make Java OR-mapping possible. Seems like it is time to try for myself.

Thanks Rick!

To demonstrate how to use DSO in distributed computing projects, I have written a small demo that computes and displays a Mandelbrot fractal. I assume you have some knowledge of our product, but if not, it would be helpful if you download http://www.terracottatech.com/downloads.jsp and check out our other demos first. Our product guide

http://www.terracottatech.com/product-docs/product-guide/toc.html

is also a great start.

You can read more about the Mandelbrot set here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set