There are some people out there blogging about Weblogic. Here is the short list in hopes this article will make them a bit more noticeable: Cid Danis. Weblogic Senior support engineer Unknown, but thorough in documenting test problems Vinny Carpenter, who is using Weblogic and blogs good links and articles News from BEA Dev2Dev. From the horse’s mouth so to speak (Link updated: Feb 2007) Moazam Rajas. He is actually SUN Senior support engineer, but if you run Weblogic - or any other J2EE servers - you will do well to read his articles All of the blogs above have RSS feeds.

Ever felt the need to extract some relations from the configuration or data and present it in a visual form nicely layed out. Ever given that up as too hard due to the hard problem of laying out the elements? If you did, then check out GraphViz. While GraphViz by itself is not Java, it is cross-platform and is fairly easy to setup and invoke from Java. It is also open-source, if that is important to you.

So, you already use iPodder to listen to your ITConversations on the iPod with a 1-click ease. All is well, except that it is starting to get difficult to remember which shows you already listened to and which ones are still new. You can of course go to iTunes, find the already-listened-to track and manually delete it or move it to the ‘archived’ section. But that is very much against 1-clickspirit.

When Win98 uptime was revealed to be never more than 49.7 days, Slashdot laughed. They could not imagine anybody actually wanting - or managing - to keep their Windows machine up for that long. I wonder if they would laugh now. I wonder what other funny(WayBackMachine archive) Microsoft problems are going to bite us well after their discovery. BlogicBlogger Over and Out

Have you ever run into classpath issues where you could have sworn the class was in a jar, the jar was on a classpath, yet you still got NoClassDefFoundError or ClassNotFoundException. Or perhaps you define several Classloaders in your application each with its own classpath and are not quite sure which one gets the priority in a specific situation. On Windows, FileMon from SysInternals(FileMon from Microsoft now) is a great free tool to resolve exactly those kind of questions.