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Getting more pie

Posted by daniel on January 14, 2005 at 9:01 AM EST

Addressing fixed resources

In Also in Java Today , Kevin Shockey writes his Management Hack #2 - Understanding the Pie Metaphor. When he asks for more needed resources, he's tired of hearing that there is only a fixed "pie" and that if his piece increases someone else's must necessarilly decrease. His theory is that if you can grow the size of the pie and convince those in power of your role in increasing the size of the pie that you will be able to secure more resources.

Of course, there are managers who counter that you've been able to increase your productivity and the company's profit with your current resources so there is no need to increase anything other than bonuses for management. In any case, he has some concrete suggestions - what do you think?

ONJava recently re-ran the article Working with Hibernate in Eclipse by James Elliot, author of Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook. In it, he investigates the "Hibernate Synchronizer", an Eclipse plug-in that lets you create and edit your object-relational mapping in an Eclipse GUI, then manages several implementation classes for you, changing them automatically as you change the mapping, ensuring that the mapping class exposed to you won't suddenly change out from under you.

Simon Brown isn't sure of the need for JSP Tag Library for Web Services. In today's Weblogs , he writes " A new JSR has been created that proposes to build a JSP Tag Library for Web Services and while I think that standard tag libraries are great, I'm not convinced about the need to access web services directly from JSP pages."

John Mitchell has two blogs today. In It's about about the language he writes " Software development is all about creating and manipulating languages. We ignore that at our own peril." His second blog is featured in Projects and Communities.

Chet Haase reminds you of our recently launched JavaOne forum. In JavaOne: What do you want to see? he writes "There's a new forum in town: Planning JavaOne 2005. Participate in the discussions and tell us how we can help craft the conference to suit your needs."

You'll find two posts by Kelly O'Hair on building J2SE in today's Forums. First, he wants to know if you are building J2SE, "The J2SE build instructions are posted here: http://www.java.net/download/build.html We know this is not an easy machine setup procedure and we are currently working on making this easier. Windows is unfortunately the hardest machine to setup, so our efforts are focusing on Windows setup/build issues. Expect separate posts on these efforts. We'd like to know who has actually tried (successfully or not) to setup or build the J2SE, and we like to hear from you what went well or not so well."

He also writes on Upcoming Build Change: java_g -> debug/bin/java. "The java_g executable has a long history but is being phased out so that developers can have more flexibility in mixing and matching product (optimized versions) and debug components of the J2SE. The '_g' naming convention often prevents certain teams from testing their own debug versions inside a product installation tree, or doing any kind of mix and match of product and debug versions of libraries.?

In Projects and Communities, the Java Tools community has released the 21st issue of its community newsletter. This edition spotlights projects that have recently joined the community, and features novel tools being developed as projects in the community.

John Mitchell reports back from MacWorld in his blog MacWorld 2005: Boom and Bust. He looks at some of the products announced in Steve Jobs' Tuesday keynote and ends with comments on the lag time in J2SE 5.0 on the Mac.

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