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Got another beautiful example of the horrors of checked exceptions. After installation of Tinypm one (sigh) of the many Tomcat logs contained the horrible piece below. In all these lines of completely useless information THE REAL ERROR IS NOT VISIBLE!

DomUI, an easy to use Java application and user interface framework built and designed by me has been released as open source today by the company I work for, Itris B.V. DomUI has been in use within Itris for about 2 years now. DomUI has a rich set of components, a metadata discovery layer which helps you by preventing repeated entry of common data ("this field is 5 chars long") and integrates with Hibernate out of the box.

Looks like Hilversum is rediscovering it's heritage! People are actively rediscovering Walhalla Symfonie, and there are now some "official" releases online.The KRO has a website called "Uitgelicht" which publishes old programs - and you canpost requests! I asked for one of the Walhalla's I didn't have "And then they saw the Pyramids" and they found and posted it ;-)

I continue to be frustrated about Java Checked Exceptions (and error logging in many Java programs). I recently ran into this beauty:

I just finished my yearly evaluation run of new techniques to quickly build web applications in Java. And while doing that I also tried the two mainstream solutions for accessing the database: Hibernate and JPA. And I am starting to dislike them both. A huge problem with these frameworks is that they abstract things that cannot be properly abstracted. And when using the framework lots of problems occur that have to do with the real world leaking thru the abstraction, leaving it useless. In many cases the frameworks work only if the database is designed having the limitations of the framework in mind. But those limitations are often only learned thru experience.

JPA and Hibernate inheritance sucks

I'm busy locating the music used in the Walhalla episodes. I'm looking for:

Sumeria - Golden Tears (WS 22) Got it!!
Godley and Creme - Ismism (or Snack Attack) Check!!!
Bernward Büker Bande - Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur Psychose
Eberhard Schoener - Time Square Got it!!!

Just saw this image today. It nicely tells you what the EU council is full of.