There's a nice article about Macs in Germany on MacDirectory. Very worth reading (besonders, wenn man aus Deutschland kommt ;-) ). The article addresses many well known issues, especially the price situation (although it keeps getting better), the conservatively marketing of Apple Germany and the fact that not every German drinks beer :-)

My generator seems still to be buggy because the items are listed twice on javablogs.com. Sorry!

For the last weeks I was busy on rewriting several parts of my engine. I decided to drop EJBs completely because this way it is possible to use my engine in Tomcat as well. Furthermore I am quite sure that I won't need clustering support any time soon =) The result of the work is a much easier and simplier codebase. Migration to Hibernate 2.0.1 is worth mentioning as well.

Yesterday I compiled a project on my iBook and deployed the resulting jar files. Today the customer called me and told me that the CSV parser wasn't working anymore. After some research I found out that javac on OS X doesn't use ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding (I guess it uses MacRoman). Acutally the problem is that we have german umlauts in some of our source files. Therefore it is a good idea to specifiy the enconding property in your ant task:

<javac encoding="iso-8859-1" ...
...

Today I contacted the maintainer of the BadResource.java file about the bug I found. Only a few minutes later my inbox contained an answer. He told me that he read about the bug on the mailinglist and that he has not responded because of lack of time. He will perhaps work on it later this week. If you need a fix by now you may simply remove the toString() method from BadResource.java or you may download my patched jar.