Tiger on Tiger.. (JDK 5 on OS X 10.4.x)

Apples implementation of JDK 5.0 works terrific, although after installation 1.4.2 is still the default, it easily fixed by some creative symlinking…

cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions
mv CurrentJDK CurrentJDK-old
ln -s 1.5 CurrentJDK

Jboss + Microsoft

Marc Fleury blogged about some groundbreaking news to be revealed, the pressrelease surfaced today.

Pardon me, but I am not that impressed. Integration with windows? Sure it’s a nice feature, but does JBoss on Windows really have a significant install base? And do you really want to tie you applications to yet another Proprietary system like Active Directory? Oh well I guess it doesn’t hurt, but I am not impressed…
pressrelease

NetBeans 5 Beta

A beta of NetBeans 5 surfaced today. It looks really promising. After seeing Matisse in action at JavaOne this year I have a certain urge to try it out (even though I am really not a client side guy), seems like they are moving in the right directing with RAD.