Weekend links

With a long weekend coming up, I have a few interesting articles for you to read. I can hardly begin with anything other than Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss, which just about everybody was writing and talking about.

Thought of the week: You can buy software, but you can’t buy community.

• TheServerSide.com JBoss acquired by Red Hat
• Timothy M. O’Brien Red Hat buys JBoss: My Mixed Reaction
• Mylar intelligently filters down what you see in Eclipse, in real time, to present only information and metrics that are pertinent to your current situation. Introduction to Mylar
• Thomas Künneth Scripting for the Java Platform
• Seth White Using the Java Persistence API with Spring 2.0
• Reverse Ajax: DWR 1.x allowed you to asynchronously call Java code from Javascript. DWR 2.0 builds on this to allow you to asynchronously call Javascript code from Java DWR 2.0 milestone 1 does ‘reverse Ajax’