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With all of the recent hoopla we have been stirring up on our blog and in the Drupal community about the Drupal Calais modules, it is easy to lose track of all the other fantastic things we have been doing here at Phase2. Here is a quick rundown of some of our latest projects.

With the explosion of web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails that advocate (and even dictate) that you use RESTful URLs for your applications, I was shocked when I discovered that Apache’s Struts 2 Java web framework does not provide near the same level of support for this behavior.

Recently I found myself in a situation where I needed to define a persistent many-to-one relationship in which the concrete class of the many side could vary. In the past I’d had some issues with class inheritance and Hibernate, which can get sticky because of Hibernate proxies: you can’t always cast the proxies to the desired type. Since I had to find a way to make this work, I decided to give interface inheritance a try.