David Rupp writes - eloquently - that he does not understand why people are reluctant to use software that auto-generates code (e.g. Hibernate and AOP/AspectJ). He is of course right. Code generation on the fly is in exactly the same league as JSPs, EJBs and dynamic proxies in terms of how the code one writes does not corresponds to the code that actually runs. But he is also wrong. What we have here is not a Good/Bad breakdown, but rather a spectrum.

It looks like search is starting to gain momentum, both desktop and service based. In the last couple of weeks, we had: Desktop Search Google Desktop renewed interest in Lookout (Lucene .Net based) nascent Lucene Desktop is generating a lot of interest, though it is hard to say how it will deferentiate itself from Zilverline And many more. See comparison on FileHand’s pages Web based search miniapps JarHoo will help you to locate a Jar where a class is defined

Guillaume Laforge writes about the ‘New Author’ treatment. I hope he will continue writing about Life as an O’Reilly Author. I also wish somebody with a different publisher would write about their experiences. BlogicBlogger Over and Out

Lara D’Abreo decided to classify developers according to their attitude to Java Frameworks. I feel I can claim to be Pragmatic, but the truth will most probably reveal at least some of Oblivious. I also seem to remember Dogmatic period of my career, but I have (hopefully) overgrown it a while ago. BlogicBlogger Over and Out

I have a gmail account. Today, when I signed in and then signed out, I suddenly noticed that in the ‘username’ field it is now showing my full email address. This is instead of just username. So, ‘user@gmail.com’ instead of just ‘user’. If I am not imagining things and that was the change, then there is only one reason I can guess for that. Gmail is planning to introduce additional domains (as mail.