Archive for April, 2006

Why GCJ is bad (for newbies) and why Sun is to blame

I spend a fair bit of time helping out beginning Java programmers. My favorite is when they ask why their swing code doesn’t work. When they post their stacktrace, there’s all the GCJ/GIJ classes. I explain to them how GCJ isn’t java and doesn’t (fully) support swing and that they should just [...]

Joins with Hibernate Criteria

I found myself needing to find all objects associated to another yesterday using criteria and I wasn’t quite sure how to get it done. I’ve worked with criteria a little (usually I just HQL and call it good) but have never done something quite like this. After digging around a bit i found [...]

Software update

I haven’t blogged anything lately because I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my blog software.  Roller hasn’t made me terribly happy.  It’s been very quirky and seems to break a little too easily.  After some thought and too much hassle, I’ve decided to switch to wordpress.  It’s enormously popular and has [...]