I‘d like to keep the iBiblio repository up to date as we release new versions of MySQL Connector/J, but the documentation at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ibiblio-upload.html assumes that either (1) you use Maven to already build your project or (2) you grok Maven enough to create a Maven version of your project to create the .poms and upload the stuff to iBiblio.

Is anyone out there with Maven skills out there that wouldn‘t mind helping us create the skeleton Maven project to pull this off (someone‘s already done it, since there are older versions of Connector/J in the repository), or tell us a way to do the upload without Maven? (We like our Ant build script just fine, thanks!)

As part of my next conference presentation Overcoming the Challenges of Establishing Service and Support Channels I’ve been struggling to find with my professional sources, any quality organisations that provide full support for a technology stack, for example a LAMP stack, or a Java Servlet stack.

Restricted to searching via online, I’ve been impressed by what I’ve found at Spike Source www.spikesource.com. An organisation with an experienced CEO, well known in the Java Industry. They certainly have all the buzz words covered in their product information.

Benefits of their SpikeSource Core Stack.

• Fully tested and certified
• Installs in minutes with integrated …

For those folks out there that are used to Derby, or HSQL, here‘s a way to embed MySQL into your Java application that you might not have seen.

As a bonus, you get all of the third-party tool support for MySQL that you‘re used to (including easy access from Perl, PHP, etc), and it doesn‘t steal heap space from your Java application.

Prerequesites:

(1) Connector/J 5.0.0 or newer

(2) Connector/MXJ 5.0.0 or newer

Make sure that the JDBC driver, and the .jar file from Connector/MXJ are in your classpath.

Craft your JDBC URL like so after registering the driver:

“jdbc:mysql:mxj:///test“

(notice the :mxj: there, which means use the MXJ MySQL server “container” (for lack of a better word)

When …

For those folks out there that are used to Derby, or HSQL, here's a way to embed MySQL into your Java application that you might not have seen.

As a bonus, you get all of the third-party tool support for MySQL that you're used to (including easy access from Perl, PHP, etc), and it doesn't steal heap space from your Java application.

Prerequesites:

(1) Connector/J 5.0.0 or newer

(2) Connector/MXJ 5.0.0 or newer

Make sure that the JDBC driver, and the .jar file from Connector/MXJ are in your classpath.

Craft your JDBC URL like so after registering the driver:

"jdbc:mysql:mxj:///test"

(notice the :mxj: there, which means use the MXJ MySQL server "container" (for lack of a better word)

When your …

For those folks out there that are used to Derby, or HSQL, here‘s a way to embed MySQL into your Java application that you might not have seen.

As a bonus, you get all of the third-party tool support for MySQL that you‘re used to (including easy access from Perl, PHP, etc), and it doesn‘t steal heap space from your Java application.

Prerequesites:

(1) Connector/J 5.0.0 or newer

(2) Connector/MXJ 5.0.0 or newer

Make sure that the JDBC driver, and the .jar file from Connector/MXJ are in your classpath.

Craft your JDBC URL like so after registering the driver:

“jdbc:mysql:mxj:///test“

(notice the :mxj: there, which means use the MXJ MySQL server “container” (for lack of a better word)

When …

The Linux Format magazine is having it’s annual reader awards in a number of categories.

These include (I’ve include my picks after each category):

• Best Desktop Application (Gnome)
• Best Distro (CentOS 4.2)
• Best Development Tool (Eclipse 3.1)
• Best Hardware Support (NVidia for my Dell Laptop)
• Free Software Project of the Year (Gaim)
• Embedded Linux Award
• Best Server Software (MySQL 5.0)
• Best Office Software (Open Office …

I took the chance today to order some books from Amazon today to add to the library. Of course I’m still reading 2 current books Spring in Action and the MySQL Certification Study Guide in order to site the second MySQL Professional Certification Exam.

As with most things, you start off looking or reading on the web for something and you end up completely somewhere else. In this case, it was looking at Linux Software Labs (Australia) at the price of their Linux Distribution CD’s, which lead me to the book Beyond Java listed on their site. …

The call for papers for the 2006 MySQL Users‘ Conference is open. I‘m chairing the “Java” track, and am appealing to all of you users out there with a MySQL and Java story that you‘d be willing to share to submit a case study talk (or a technical talk).

I know there‘s interesting stuff out there that others would like to hear about. I‘ve heard of folks with 10‘s of thousands of transactions/second in the mailing lists, I know weather.com runs Tomcat and MySQL, Feedburner runs Tomcat and MySQL and serves up huge volumes of RSS feeds with very few machines, etc, etc. I‘d love to be able to hear about some of these folks‘ experiences (and I imagine you would too!), so if you know anybody that is interested in presenting on this kind of stuff, let them know about the CFP - http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/create/e_sess/

The call for papers for the 2006 MySQL Users' Conference is open. I'm chairing the "Java" track, and am appealing to all of you users out there with a MySQL and Java story that you'd be willing to share to submit a case study talk (or a technical talk).

I know there's interesting stuff out there that others would like to hear about. I've heard of folks with 10's of thousands of transactions/second in the mailing lists, I know weather.com runs Tomcat and MySQL, Feedburner runs Tomcat and MySQL and serves up huge volumes of RSS feeds with very few machines, etc, etc. I'd love to be able to hear about some of these folks' experiences (and I imagine you would too!), so if you know anybody that is interested in presenting on this kind of stuff, let them know about the CFP - http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/create/e_sess/

The call for papers for the 2006 MySQL Users‘ Conference is open. I‘m chairing the “Java” track, and am appealing to all of you users out there with a MySQL and Java story that you‘d be willing to share to submit a case study talk (or a technical talk).

I know there‘s interesting stuff out there that others would like to hear about. I‘ve heard of folks with 10‘s of thousands of transactions/second in the mailing lists, I know weather.com runs Tomcat and MySQL, Feedburner runs Tomcat and MySQL and serves up huge volumes of RSS feeds with very few machines, etc, etc. I‘d love to be able to hear about some of these folks‘ experiences (and I imagine you would too!), so if you know anybody that is interested in presenting on this kind of stuff, let them know about the CFP - http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/create/e_sess/