Spring Framework 1.2.8 Released

This is a maintenance release, fixing a number of issues found in previous 1.2.x releases. Most of these fixes have been backported from 2.0 M4, so have already been available there.
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Firefox Extensions For Web Development [*ware]

"For standards based web development Firefox is an indispensable tool. Successful web production requires a lot of tweaking that in most other cases would require a lot of round trips between the browser, a graphics program and your HTML/CSS editor. Firefox comes with a broad selection of extensions. Some of these extensions are extremely useful for testing and validating your web page."
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Stellarium [*ware]

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
For Windows, MacOSX and Linux.
http://stellarium.sourceforge.net

TeaVee [misc]

"You have the power to rank a show"

http://www4.teavee.com/

Visualize with Rational Software Architect [*ware]

Rational Software Architect virtually teems with visual tools to handle a number of development tasks. Of most interest to developers are UML modeling, design patterns, and UML-to-code transformations. After completing this tutorial, you will know how to create a UML model, apply a design pattern to that model, and, finally, transform the abstract model into actual code.
To run the examples in this tutorial, install Rational Software Architect. If you don't have a copy of Rational Software Architect, download a free trial version.
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Hibernate Basics [poj]

In this article, we'll cover configuring Hibernate at the framework and persistent class level. More specifically, we'll discuss the following:

* Creating a basic hibernate.cfg.xml file
* Building mapping definition files to provide Hibernate with information about persistent classes
* The primary Hibernate classes used to persist and retrieve classes
* Advanced Hibernate configuration, including object caching and transaction management
* Persisting class hierarchies (inheritance) with Hibernate

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