Somehow this flew under my radar. Sad, considering I am on the project. Project Zero is starting to become self-hosted (to the extent it makes sense, of course) with its own support forum running phpBB on the Project Zero runtime itself.
So I went and dug deeper…
Back in January, Rob Nicholson and Iain Lewis posted that [...]

I look at domain classes constructs from Rails’ ActiveRecord and Django, among others, and am jealous. Although they make enough simplifying assumptions to make integration with existing database schemas a headache, their pure simplicity make it a home run for greenfield projects.
Switch to Java, and we have a simplified Java Persistence Architecture. It is simplified [...]

Why didn’t I know about this before?
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider
A service provider identifies itself by placing a provider-configuration file in the resource directory META-INF/services.

In a past life I was an avid ColdFusion developer from 1998 to 2004. In fact, it was the transition from ColdFusion implemented atop of J2EE that got me into Java. I had opportunity on several occations to provide feedback on Allaire and then Macromedia about features and enhancements.
One feature I suggested for the current [...]