Link Parking

• Going through the Spring Blogs and another posting: Re: Spring, just another hype? "Spring has had support for prototypes and other instantiation and scoping strategies since the early beginning. There are some limitations...For the ‘Singleton A that needs Prototype B’ problem, Spring provides several options such as lookup-methods, target sources and manual lookups."


• JTA Does Not Equal Automatic Support of Two-Phase Commit! "Now it looks like JOTM is getting (it’s in CVS, and part of a new Jonas reelase) XA recovery, but the release version doesn’t. I really welcome a version of JOTM which can do proper XA recovery. It’ll be great to have that option, but until that’s actually available there’s not really much of a reason you’d ever want to use JOTM in a new Spring app deployed in TomCat."


• Behaviour-Driven Development and JBehave.


• Radio National on the top down (American) vs bottom up (British) army (MP3) and Changing the Army for Counterinsurgency Operations (PDF).


• Pellet 1.3 and a list of SPARQL implementations.