the term crud means Create Read Update Delete.

in broadvision they don't have hot deploy so they restart all the servers (not at the same time so the site doesn't go down) they call it draining the servers.

out of curiosity i looked last night to see what companies were offering portal solutions. a portal solution offers functionality similar to my yahoo. i thought i would pass it along. what i found is that there are offerings from application server companies (ibm, oracle, sun), erp companies (SAP and peoplesoft), and "pure plays" (Epicentric, BroadVision, Plumtree, and Bowstreet), to name a few. According to one article, Epicentric is the market leader, and Bowstreet is the leading innovator.

another article said:
"Plumtree and Epicentric still offer the most thorough portal products today," additionally naming named Vignette and SAP Portals to the group offering "the most usable portal framework products." It also named Oracle and BEA Systems as other vendors "best prepared to serve enterprise portal needs."

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2854468,00.html

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011101S0014

http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=3562&ml=2

here is a weird one... if view source stops working on Internet Explorer delete the offline content.

most places i work we develop on windows deploy on unix and one big problem is always file names are case sensitive on unix and not on windows.

windows shortcuts:
ctrl print screen - copies entire screen to copy buffer
alt print screen - copies current window to copy buffer

in jbuilder ctrl F6 is the file/tab navigation (ctrl tab in most windows apps)

jbuilder 6 compiles slowly due to the new dependency checker. to revert to the old one: add this to the jbuilder.config file:

vmparam -Duse.old.bmj

when writing financial applications use integer (non floats) for money fields or there will be rounding errors reference

i upgraded to jbuilder 6 enterprise hoping to use the clear case integration, but it doesn't support snapshot views. it supports only Base Clear Case with dynamic views only.

here are lists of the java/pdf libraries that i have investigated.
google listing
presentation
apache project's FOP
Big Faceless
iText