Occasional Thoughts

Robert Eckstein from Sun Microsystems has created a video tutorial that gives a quick, but great introduction to JavaFX.

However isn't it embarrassing that Sun is using Flash to deliver this video? Seems like Sun does not trust its own technology and rather uses the technology of a competitor. Would Microsoft ever use Flash for Silverlight tutorials? Hardly!

The Apache project in contrast seems to have more trust in the Java technology than Sun and delivers the keynote video for ApacheCon Europe as applet. And this applet proves that even Java applets can deliver Videos in just a few seconds using JDK 1.6u10.

Migrating an existing Java project for use with Hibernate is a difficult process. And yet I'm not sure if it is worth the work at all.

Some years ago I started a Java project with direct database access using JDBC and SQL. I designed my object model and a relational database schema. Both were optimized independenlty to work optimal in their environment. In order to connect the object world with the relational world, I wrote a clean storage layer, which was responsible for communicating with the database. This worked pretty good. But when Hibernate was becoming more and more popular, I started thinking about migrating to a Hibernate based object mapping.