Can’t rememeber the syntax for the command line interface for administering your Glassfish EE 5.0 server? Apparently Glassfish has a neat feature where it uses regex to match patterns to find ‘likely’ matches for mistyped or commands you are unsure of. Very cool.
Sony’s announced sale on TV’s over Thanksgiving weekend
Sony had an unannounced sale on some of their largest TVs over the Thanksgiving weekend, cutting upto $900 off their prices if you happened to visit a participating store or their online store over the weekend. Prices were back to normal after the weekend.
This may have been part to do with the lack of stock anywhere of their 46″ LCD XBR2 TV that I’ve been trying to purchase – a couple of weeks back some stores had them in stock when I was doing some initial research, but by this weekend, there wasn’t a single store within miles that had one in stock.
Project Semplice (VB on Java VM) – project cancelled?
There was talk this year at JavaOne about an interesting project at Sun to support the execution of VB code on the Java VM – this was being promoted as an opportunity to attract the VB community to move their code over to run on the VM and gain from the benefits of the Java VM (multiplatform support that Microsoft is unable to offer), and also capitalize on the fact that Microsoft killed VB6 with the development of the incompatible VB.NET on the .NET platform.
There is a post on JavaLobby this morning stating that this project may have been cancelled, since two of the main guys working on this are no longer at Sun, and the 3rd guy (Tor Norbye – of JavaPosse fame) has also been reassigned to other projects. Anyone have any other info behind this?
Cocobase announce JPA API Support with CocoBase Pure POJO v5
Thought Inc. have announced v5 of CocoBase Pure POJO, a Persistence Framework that support the JPA API. Thought have some wild claims about their solution offering 2x to 3x performance improvement over a pure JDBC implemented solution – this is currently being discussed over on theserverside.com.