GuillaumeTardif

I just discovered SVN Notifier that allows to watch a subversion repository. This utility from tigris (they also build subversion) displays an icon in your system tray and pops up when other people commit new versions in the repository you want to watch.

You can configure notifications for repositories or sub-folder, and then update your local view from the tool when you get notified of new commits.
It does not allow to automatically update your local view without manual intervention, which might be useful in some cases (but you can easily plan task invoking svn commands to do that).

Useful when the SVN server is not linked to a web interface supporting RSS, like Trac or webSVN.

I’m currently performing a study on J2EE persistence tools and frameworks, and I came accross this great JPA tutorial using implementations by Hibernate and Toplink.

Serge Tahé provides very clear and simple explanations based on easy to run examples, both in Hibernate and Toplink (and with a great variety of databases - I ran most of them with Derby, just because I already had it running on my machine). The tutorial exposes progressive examples going from very basic peristence code to quite advanced mapping configurations, and explores some of the limits of the tools, as well as behavior differences between Hibernate and toplink. It is accessible to a large public : almost from java beginners to expert who do not yet have a deep experience in JPA.

All in french unfortunately for those of you who don’t speak our wonderful language…

This is done eventually! I now have a blog, as everyone else.