Better Way

There's a way to do it better - find it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

Great Man

It takes a great man to be a good listener.
-- Calvin Coolidge

First Things First

To Live. To Love. To Learn. To Leave a Legacy.
-- Stephen R. Covey

Trees

Funny how we (humans) cut down trees to make room for a road, then realize that we need some trees to cut down on the wind that is blowing snow over that road.

It's not what happens to you

It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
-- Wilson Mitchell

Feeds

Here's where I get my Quote of the day feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/brainyquote/QUOTEBR

Quote of the Day

Don't go through life, grow through life.
-- Eric Butterworth

Quote of the Day

Success is a journey, not a destination.
-- Ben Sweetland

Joke

A woman goes to her boyfriend's parents' house for Christmas dinner.

This is to be her first time meeting the family and she is very nervous.

They all sit down and begin eating a fine meal.

The woman is beginning to feel a little discomfort, thanks to her nervousness and the broccoli casserole. The gas pains are almost making her eyes water. Left with no other choice, she decides to relieve herself a bit and lets out a dainty fart.

It wasn't loud, but everyone at the table heard the poof.

Before she even had a chance to be embarrassed, her boyfriend's father looked over at the dog that had been snoozing under the woman's chair, and said in a rather stern voice, 'Skippy!'.

The woman thought, 'This is great!' and a big smile came across her face.

A couple of minutes later, she was beginning to feel the pain again.

This time, she didn't even hesitate. She let a much louder and longer rrrrrip.

The father again looked at the dog and yelled, 'Skippy!'

Once again the woman smiled and thought 'Yes!' A few minutes later the woman had to let another rip. This time she didn't even think about it.

She let a fart rip that rivaled a train whistle blowing.

Once again, the father looked at the dog with disgust and yelled, 'Skippy, get away from her, before she shits on you!'

EntityManager

Here's a doozy that I haven't come across yet....
Using JPA. Everything works great when going straight through the JPA application. Data gets retrieved and saved just fine.
If the data is changed in the database by some backend process (or just amnually throught some SQL tool), the JPA application does not refresh the data. It appears to be pulling it from a cache.

I found this great article
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/guruwons/archive/2006/09/understanding_t_1.html

amd info on TopLink JPA Caching
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/jpa/resources/toplink-jpa-extensions.html#TopLinkCaching

and.......it worked!!!! :)
added "q.setHint("toplink.refresh", "true");" (where q is Query) to those queries where data could be updated from other process.

JPA and EntityManager

Here's a doozy that I haven't come across yet....
Using JPA. Everything works great when going straight through the JPA application. Data gets retrieved and saved just fine.
If the data is changed in the database by some backend process (or just amnually throught some SQL tool), the JPA application does not refresh the data. It appears to be pulling it from a cache.

I found this great article
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/guruwons/archive/2006/09/understanding_t_1.html

amd info on TopLink JPA Caching
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/jpa/resources/toplink-jpa-extensions.html#TopLinkCaching

and.......it worked!!!! :)
added "q.setHint("toplink.refresh", "true");" (where q is Query) to those queries where data could be updated from other process.