Sorry, this is a slightly technical post… please ignore if you don’t read Java. All Java programmers know that method implementation can’t appear interfaces. Basically, the interface let you define constants and method declarations but you need to put the implementation into a class which implements that interface. Well, that was true until Java 5. [...]

I’ve used Netbeans for the past 4 years but I’ve recently been using Eclipse at work. I’ve produced two cheatsheets that I keep close by which describe the various keyboard shortcuts and icons in Eclipse (all taken from the help file included in v3.2 — but better formatted onto 2 pages) keys [pdf]icons [pdf]

I’ve finally published my article comparing the performance of three pure-Java, embedded databases and MySQL. Summary: HSQLDB is ridiculously fast and it will be replacing MySQL in my simulation. I’ve submitted links to the article at TheServerSide and JavaLobby, so there might be some interesting discussions there (or there might not, we’ll see if anyone [...]

A simplistic look at the performance of several embedded Java databases