been reading Newbie FAQ - Apache Struts to learn more about struts... i dunno if its just me but i really dont see the point of having a framework like this... maybe i just hate jsp? IMHO xsl+servlet+persistance(ejb/hibernate) should be much much simpler and better with xml used in between...

onwards with java... the excitement is still there... coding fun... but i also want to explore the .net when i have time...

gavin king rocks! the more i read about hibernate the more i want to use it on a real project... i still have some few good points in favor of ejb, but for non-web apps i think hibernate is the way to go...

A Case Against EJB article on javaranch. somehow sucks! because why the hell did they create ejb in the first place. sigh... but i think the real reason is after having a blast learning the ejb path and finally getting real comfortable with cmp now all of a sudden articles are coming up discussing the against the use of ejb... even rick hightower whose articles inspired me to pursue cmp seems to be steering away from cmp/cmr nowadays... as well as this guy...

am still frustrated i cant use resin-xdoclet.jar together with lomboz to handle @resin-ejb tags. but am really beginning to like ejb cmp 2.x. lets see where this goes.

found some eraserheads audio bits at the net. brings back some good old memories. i miss playing the electric guitar. sigh i wish i had a computer back then and those awesome downloadable guitar effects softwares. maybe i would have experimented more. but then the generic distortion was already providing a ton of fun.

still cant figure out how to configure xdoclet to dispable generating the and tag... i had to manually remove them or run a unix script (tr -d). resin doesnt doesnt like those tags.

still i dont seem to find any doc on configuring lomboz to use the resin xdoclet jar instead... hmmmnnn...

busy busy busy... what else is new? lots and lots of stuff to do!

i had been using lomboz extensively for the past few months to aid in developing j2ee app. one needs to learn some basic xdoclet (aop) to take full advantage of its features. anyway am back from a long vacation in bicol. year 2004 the battle for middle-earth philippines continues. election is coming, sigh...

the next question is: what do i give my beloved wife and baby this Christmas aside from all the love that i can give? Gift buying is not for the faint of heart... hmmmnnnn....

whew! my last blog was nov 15... time REALLY flies nowadays... got the main infrastructure to be stable and reliable on the project i am currently working on... but oh yeah, still a TON of work to do... on the otherside its the christmas season... lets not forget that the real meaning of christmas is to remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ...

geez... again, again... lots of things to do and yet so little time...

bought an asus degatto 15000 a couple of weeks ago under company loan... its not as portable as a powerbook but it does withstand compiling every now and then while at the same time running an mp3 player plus a whole slew of office apps... it took some time to get accustomed to the windows environment again... but as soon as i have no need to run those legacy c++ builder app that am maintaining i might format it back to freebsd again... i had it run freebsd for the first week and it runs quite fine and stable... btw, i had the machine replaced twice already due to a factory defect on the lcd (the first one had two burnt pixel in it and the latter had only one)... nevertheless its a pretty damn good work machine and the lcd certainly eases the strain on ones eyes as opposed to those crt based monitors...

couldnt help but get fascinated with my baby... everyday there's always something new that she would do... so kulit and so so so cute... a few days ago she was really upset that the all four goldfish that we bought died... hmmmnn... i think its time to save for a digital cam to capture this everyday miracle... thank you God for bringing baby to our life...

making huge progress with the j2ee app am doing... this wouldnt be possible without tools like eclipse, quantum and lomboz... i find them indispensable for doing fairly complicated applications...

blogging again... hopefully i can keep on posting non-sense text more often... settling on a new job... hopefully the start of new and wonderful things... very challenging projects... whew! very very very exciting!!!

long time no posts... busy as a bee... still pushing thru with learning java and targeting j2ee technologies... so far so good, am an eclipse convert now... its way way faster than intellij idea on freebsd 5.x...

basically it seems i have the components i need to go full throttle with j2ee... got the hang of servlets and the http get/post methods... need to read more about ejb's.... xalan seems to fit right into the application framework i'm developing... focus, focus and focus!!! i hope santa grants me powerbook g4 even at this time of the year... it would greatly increase my motivation!!! here's to wishful thinking...

Haven't posted in a while... am buried deep into a mountain of work... Hay buhay...

bioinformatics Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills: Chapter 1: Biology in the Computer Age has been of keen interest to me lately. genome hacking is uber cool and highly regret not listening well enough during those chemistry and biology classes. it's such a fascinating area where computers can be of tremendous help. unfortunately my lack of a fairly deep background in some aspect of molecular biology will likely make me "run into brick walls too often". lets see where this goes...

IntelliJ Community . SimpleUML seems to be a good modeling tool... havent tested it yet, but based on the user comments it seems a handy companion to java development.