TRWTF is allowing a radio shack anywhere near computers. They tried that in the early 1980s and does anyone remember how that worked out? For one thing, the world's worst word processing software ever!! As you began typing on page 2, page 1 was automatically saved to a separate file. As you began page 6, page 5 automatically overwrote the file for page 1. That's right! A silently imposed limit of 4 pages. Works great when you demo it in the store.

(Anyone want to guess what happens when you insert text on page one, and the last sentence gets pushed down to page 2? Keep in mind we're working with earthworm-slow 8-inch floppies here.)

Back then there were a lot of companies that thought "a computer has wires, we sell stuff with wires, so we're golden!" Like General Electric. A computer and a refrigerator look almost identical, so let's get in the business! They thought they'd just crank out a few mainframes with sturdy reinforcing brackets and all. The software... well... subroutines could only have names up to 6 characters long, and company policy required the magic letters "GE" at the beginning of everything just so you wouldn't forget their greatness, so you'd be writing code where GELOAD calls GEFIND then GEOPEN and if there was any error you call GEBORT (abort) to get yourself a handy dandy core dump.

Yes. Computers are easy. Anybody can make them.

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Nagesh:

Why would anyone be interested in JRebel? Eclipse can do hotswapping in Java and JBuilder was able to do it a decade ago.

Eclipse's hotswapping capabilities are poor. More often than not, you'll have to restart the server anyway if you make a change. I presume a commercial tool specialized in doing that could do a much better job. I haven't used it myself though.

Will it work with Weblogic? Somebody try it and let me know.

Actually, somebody try it and take some screenshots so it can be on next week's Error'd.

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