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Flex Camp Wall Street Flex is gaining adoption among Java programmers and I must confess it’s a fantastic match in my experience. With Java, you get the robust server side that integrates and works with pretty much every useful technology in the enterprise and… read more Shashank Tiwari
Web Framework IM Log + Adobe Fx? + Tomcat Love I'm convinced that this blog platform doesn't quite work. Blogs are supposed to be about random navel gazing, but instead of that I think people view the O'Reilly blogging platform as a political megaphone through which they can make themselves… read more Timothy M. O'Brien
Business Users Creating Rules - BRMS Guide Preview (JBoss Drools) The aim of Drools (or any other Business Rules Engine) is to get knowledge out of business user's heads and into a format where it can be copied , edited and peer reviewed , then run 24/7. Ideally, business users… read more Paul Browne
Changing the Maven POM Brett Porter has a terse branch in Maven that introduces an incrementally leaner syntax for Maven POMs. If you've used Maven, you've probably cursed it repeatedly for relying too heavily on an element only approach to XML configuration. To illustrate… read more Timothy M. O'Brien
From Tags to Riches: Going from Web1.0 to Flex James Ward and I put together an article on porting over an HTML application to Flex. Its published on InfoQ. We used the Pentaho BI Dashboard as the sample application in our endeavor. After reading the article you will realize… read more Shashank Tiwari
Customizing Enums Enumerated types (enums) are a way to define fixed set of constants, so helpful in many areas of software development. In the most common case, in your Java code written for Java 5 or newer, you will use enums for… read more Dejan Bosanac
On SOA, OSGi And More So I want to pontificate about SOA in the Enterprise for a few minutes here. I, as an "enterprise" developer obviously have an opinion on this topic, but this final rant was spawned by listening to Dalibor on Java Posse… read more Robert Cooper
Forking Maven Everyone using Maven should pay attention to what Don Brown is doing. He's reached a level of frustration with Maven, and he's decided to start working on his own branch. Luckily some people on the core Maven team have noticed… read more Timothy M. O'Brien
Must (Not) See (Not) TV With minimal introduction, just want to say, every Java developer in the world needs to hear Java Posse 160... if you want to, skip 18 minutes into it and start from there. To borrow from John Hodgman.... that is all. Robert Cooper
Drop backward compatibility or stop evolving Bruce Eckel says Java is at an "Evolutionary Dead End". His perspective is that retrofitting newer features into Java is making it absurdly complex. He states the choice is between no more evolution or breaking away from the past. In… read more Shashank Tiwari
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Feel of Java Revisited On February 28, James Gosling gave a presentation in Sun's Santa Clara Campus auditorium (formerly a part of the Agnews Insane Asylum :-)), entitled “Feel of Java Revisited”. The talk promised to revisit the classic Feel of Java paper that famously declared “Java is a blue collar language”. I went with my graduate programming language class from SJSU, and here is what I learned.
... Cay Horstmann Call for reasonable Java hosting Java can compete against other languages, scripting or not, even for small sites, but it needs the support of the industry and the availability of reasonable hosting to do so.
... Dru Devore OpenJDK 6 now has JAX-WS 2.1 and JAXB 2.1 OpenJDK 6 b06 is live now. The important update from b05 is that JAX-WS 2.1.1 with JAXB 2.1.6 is integrated in to OpenJDK 6 b06. So, All the JAX-WS 2.1 features and bug fixes that are in JDK 6 Update 4 Release are available in OpenJDK 6 b06. Read more ...
... Rama Pulavarthi Sun Tech Days Hyderabad 2008 - Day 2 The highlight of Day 2 of Sun Tech Days Hyderabad for
me was the keynote session by David Axmark
- MySQL
co-founder. In his presentation, he explained how Storage
Engine Innovation (Falcon, InnoDB, PBXT
& others), "Free" Time Innovation (MySQL proxy,
Language Connector), Buying Innovation (MySQL
Cluster
from Ericsson),...
... Arun Gupta Different Names for the Same Thing Defining Java EE 6's Web Profile... also:
java.net Poll: What should be in the Java EE 6 Web Profile?
Java Today: Web Beans, JXTA for MIDP 2.0,
and JSF Anti-Patterns and Pitfalls
Forums: Java3D goes GPL under a new name, JXSE gets Grizzly NIO HTTP,
and reloading jMaki widgets
Weblogs: Imaging Test Set Repository, visualizing class contents in NetBeans,
and Sun Tech Days Hyderabad - Day 1
... Chris Adamson
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