I sat down last night and looked at the latest offering from the geniuses working on Hibernate. I really like the new tools that are coming out for it. The Eclipse plugins, located here are really useful. I love being able to use a GUI Schema tool to build my database schema, push it into a database (via generated scripts) and then have Hibernate plugins build my POJO’s for me. That is slick. Of course, this is my personal approach to designing systems. I like visually laying out the database as my model, and working up from there. It doesn’t always work that way, but that’s how I like to do it.
I also downloaded the latest Spring IDE plugin from springframework.org. Man, I really wish I could convince my group to start working with these new frameworks, but we have built our own, and its hard to move away from something once all of your code depends on it.
So, I am making it a point in all of my personal development projects to try and use widely known, highly praised tools for my development efforts. Not only does this give me a certain level of comfort knowing that there are people out there using this thing that may be able to help if I have a question / find a bug, etc., but also that I am learning something new and fresh, with a different mindset than I am used to.
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