Simple Hibernate Alternative?

Just read about this simple and light-weight ORM project.
http://blog.devtrain.fi/2009/10/18/kauklahti-making-orm-simple/

They claim to replace hibernate code with some simple 1300 lined of code of this Kauklahti. I am curious, and while reading I almost agreed to most points that Tomi mentions; especially about version updates and countless dependencies (You’d know better if you’re working on a big product development for years).

It seems interesting, because its mentions dependency on just log4j. The only other constraint would be I guess it’s use with Spring framework, which has been keeping me away from trying it. We are married to Struts framework for our current project.

Nevertheless, I would be interested to know real life projects that make use of this Kauklahti (Besides the one that inventor himself uses). They would be some interesting case studies. I am hoping to check it out soon for some small prototype, let’s see.

Joy Of Ubuntu!

Finally, I have dumped Windows for good and have shifted to Ubuntu (9.04 Jaunty) for my development 2 weeks ago. It’s been exciting and confusing at times as well, after al it was more than a decade old association with Windows in its various flavours. I am rediscovering Joy of Linux after a long time. Unlike typical Linux of older times, Ubuntu is very, very simple to use and is extremely intuitive.

The only thing I am missing here is AciveSynch for my Windows mobile and maybe good old fiend, TextPad!

But guess what? I am loving it! Expect some more Linux related posts here from me in the next few months.

Google making waves, yet again! :)

Google never ceases to surprise me. They do come up with something or the other that just amuses me. Though it remains painlessly simple & intuitive to use, the thinking and coding goes behind it is awesome. This time it’s Google Wave -
http://wave.google.com/

I don’t know about others, but I can think of Shazzle here, but I am curious to know what Google comes up with.

Google claims that it would be a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web and I can bet that it would change the way we use communication & collaboration on the web. Let’s wait & watch!