SCJD Certification Exam

After 3 months of work I've completed my assignment for the SCJD (Sun Certification Java Developer) exam. In particular the assignment was URLyBird 1.3.1, an hotel booking system. The architecture is composed of a RMI server and a Swing client. The database is implemented as a file, with locking primitives for updating records. Here you can find the entire project JAR: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1580227/URLyBird.zip

Reset your turn-around time!

Hi guys,
at the last JavaDay in Rome I discovered a very exciting tool called JRebel (http://www.zeroturnaround.com). Initially I was sceptic about it but finally I tried and I was impressed by the great advantages gives you while developing Java EE applications. In few words, with JRebel, you can do your changes to your Java beans, edit your Spring & Hibernate XMLs without restarting the application server. JRebel scans automatically your IDE project workspace and loads the updated version of the class when needed.
Obviously, performances can be a bit lower than a normal deployed application but in this way you can save about 30 minutes a day (depending on your application turnaround time - for me this time is 20 sec). The tool is not free but there are trial licenses so give it a try!