Weekend links

With Siberian weather outside, I hope you won’t turn down a few links to articles that caught my eye recently. I particularly want to highlight Vlasta Vávrů’s article on property editors in Spring. They’re an important part of Spring, and worth knowing about at the very least.

• Property editors in the Spring Framework
• Desklets in Java? They aren’t that pretty and still have plenty of bugs, but it’s certainly an interesting effort. Desklets: Java on the desktop… All the time!
• The releases of three Hibernate subprojects are worth a look. Hibernate Shards, Hibernate Search, and Hibernate Validator releases.
• At HP we were handed a booklet called SOA for Dummies, but an article like SOA for idiots may be worth a link.