When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I look at the Oracle database views and queries that I use most to get an idea what constraints I am dealing with.

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An early look at the types of sessions we can expect at JavaOne 2012 is now available with news getting out about which abstracts have been accepted and which have been declined. In this post, I look at some of the early announcements from people who have reported their abstracts being accepted.

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There has recently been a large number of posts on some of my favorite topics and I summarize and reference a few of them here.

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One of the advantages of code generation is the ability to see how a specific language feature or framework is used. As I discussed in the post NetBeans 7.2 beta: Faster and More Helpful, NetBeans 7.2 beta provides TestNG integration.

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In the post Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest, I briefly discussed Hamcrest "core" matchers being "baked in" with modern versions of JUnit.

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There has been significant excitement about the beta release of NetBeans 7.2. In this post, I look briefly at what makes this release so exciting (including better performance, providing more hints, and integrating FindBugs).

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The biggest news in Javadom today is covered in the post Day 23, From the Courtroom: Oracle v. Google Trial - Jury: No Patent Infringement.

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Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM tools), the object-XML impedance mismatch (often addressed with OXM tools), and even the

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Java IDEs have come a long way since the days of JBuilder (though JBuilder seemed like a welcome advance at the time).

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One of the things that can be a little tricky for developers new to Java or even for experienced Java developers new to formatting with Java Dates, is the specification of a date/time format using SimpleDateFormat. The class-level Javadoc-based documentation for SimpleDateFormat is pretty thorough in its coverage of patterns representing various components of a date/time.

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I have talked about some of my favorite NetBeans hints in the posts Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code and Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints.

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This post references and very briefly summarizes several recent posts on subjects of interest to software developers such as NetBeans 7.1.2, progress on Java 8's Lambda Expressions, Guava Release 12, TestNG, Scala, and the expense of ineffective meetings.

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NetBeans uses its projects' settings for javac.source (and javac.target in more ways than simply enforcing javac's use of the -source and -target.

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In my blog post Are Static Imports Becoming Increasingly Accepted in Java?, I discussed the increasing use of static imports in Java to make code more fluent in certain contexts.

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When running simple Java tests either to learn how something works in Java or to build examples for my blog posts, I often store the examples in the same directory on my machine. I decided that I wanted to remove all the generated .class files from this directory.

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