Jeff Mesnil

After Innobase, Oracle has bought Sleepycat, the maker of the great database engine BerkeleyDB. Congratulations to the Sleepycat team!

As an aside, Oracle now owns the developers of InnoDB and BDB, two of the most popular transactional table formats used by MySQL database.
Shouldn’t MySQL AB start to worry about that?

Eamonn McManus’s Blog: What is an MXBean?

One of the important new features of the JMX API in Mustang (Java SE 6) is the ability to create MXBeans. MXBeans provide a convenient way to bundle related values together without requiring clients to be specially configured to handle the bundles. Here’s the complete story about MXBeans.

Great new feature for JMX-based applications. When I read articles like that, I wish I could already use Java SE 6 in our production code because it could tremendously reduce the burden of JMX handling.