When you are writing batch scripts (programs that run in the background without user intervention) you often need to copy a file on to a remote machine. If you are not already connected to the machine more »

I've been doing a lot of work recently with the SpringFramework. It helps with all aspects of building a large scale application by, among other things, providing a generic exception hierarchy which is used by all the component modules. The upshot of thi… more »

Surprisingly Hibernate 3 does not support UUID's. I think the main reason for this is that UUID is not yet an ANSI database type. Each database manufacturer has implemented it in a different way, stored it as a slightly different type and has a driver (o… more »