Prince for generating PDFs

I just came over Price; a tool for converting XML to PDF by ways of CSS.

Prince is a computer program that converts XML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.

It is commercial, but really sweet! Looks usefull for batch-creation of pdfs from structured markup.

Integrating Hibernate and Lucene

Integrating freetext search on a domain model in a transparent way has been on my mind lately. It looks like the Compass::Spring-framework does just this. You can map domain objects to the search engine index (Lucene), and integrate it using aspects to allow for transparent updating of the index. It also allows seamless integration with Hibernate. Looks kind of usefull, though just in version 0.6.