For the Wicket project we use Maven as a build tool. Today I was building a new release candidate for the 1.2.1 Wicket branch, and I noticed that my MacBookPro was having a difficult time building it.

Looking in the activity monitor, I saw some weird process claiming half my CPU time, thus greatly exercising my CPU. This appeared to be the Mac OS-X spotlight importer. Googling for the process I found a way to shut that process off for a particular directory, so I told Spotlight *NOT* to index my (Java) workspace. This should be a great improvement in performance.

You can tell spotlight to stop indexing particular folders in the settings preference panel for spotlight, on the tab for privacy. Just drag your folder to the list you don’t want to be indexed.

Acccording to InfoQ the patent case against Hibernate was meticulously planned.

• They filed the suit in the one place where no patent case was lost
• They filed the suit right within the JBoss Red Hat due dilligence period (either instant settlement by JBoss or a possible cancellation of the acquisition)

Unfortunately we haven’t heard the last of this.

Repeat after me:

Software Patents Are Bad