General Blather

I've got a pretty small and simple project that works fine in JDK6, but fails with JDK7. The failure comes with apparent changes in the SSL validation. Additionally, I cannot try the common trick of skipping SSL valiation by blindly accepting all… more »

In my more recent experimentations I'm finding that my first-pass, hasty testing of JDK7 on old projects is not as much of a failure as I'd thought it was. The problem lies not with my project, the IDE, the new JDK, or the old libraries, but with the… more »

Not Eclipse so much, as the experience of using it. I guess they kind of go hand-in-hand, but I'm not ready to blame Indigo. New experimentation with Eclipse Indigo (3.7) brings me to the conclusion that the marketplace doesn't work. This seems to be a… more »

JDK7 doesn't seem to play nice with Spring 3.0.5 out of the box. I did my testing on an installation of Ubuntu running in a VM on my Mac. I've done this before running JDK6 and Eclipse Helios (3.6) or STS, so I know it works. I did a clean install and… more »

In 2008 I encountered and repaired a bug in Hibernate; it still isn't fixed. more »

The new Hibernate v3.5 has been released (on March 31). Among other things, integrated annotations, improved second-level caching, and better JDK6 support. I wonder if they finally got around to fixing the bug I found. I know what I'll be doing… more »

Some time ago I wrote a little bit on the Java equals-hashCode contract. Recently, I hastily violated this, and have spent the last two days chasing down failures in my refactoring due to this violation. To be fair, I wasn't done yet, and would like to… more »