I thought I'd post updates on what I'm interested in, to give a glimpse of what I'm looking into and have moved away from. Perhaps I'll have enough data to create a graph someday :)

Up and coming

• Neo4J - A graph store - no more ORMappings


• Qi4J - A composite development framework, a new way of writing Java applications, a way of life


• Groovy GRAILS - Excellent for prototyping Java stuff


• Mercurial - When thinking different, why not Version Control as well?


• Swing Appframework, Java6u10 - Propably the next big thing in Rich Internet Applications


• Visualization of graphs - Am looking for a nice, easy API for creating several hierarchical trees that I can drag and manipulate


• Amazon EC2 - Java enabled servers on demand!


• Twitter, Blog, IRC -New (and revisited) ways of communicating intra-project/company


• javaBin, JavaZone - Working with the JavaZone conference for a year was damn fun!
  

Mavenized Neo4J example

The weekend after JavaZone, I was one of the participants on a "GeekCruise", where we looked into emerging technologies such as Qi4J, Neo4J and Enterpricy stuff.

In short, Neo4J is a network/graph database that promises to deliver Web 3.0, Semantic Web and RDF greatness. 

Graph visualization of a Java application

Wouldn't it be great to visualize the object graph and relations of Java classes or of a running Java application?