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JavaTools Community Newsletter - Issue 127 A new edition of the newsletter is available, with news, new projects and tips! If you want to receive the newsletter by email, please subscribe the announcements mailing list - or read the current issue here.   (Jun 27, 2007)

Simplify directory access with Spring LDAP
Why spend all your time handling checked exceptions, closing resources, and looping through NamingEnumerations when you don't have to? The Spring LDAP framework puts the 'l' (for lightweight) back into LDAP programming with JNDI.

Late-breaking news at Jazoon 2007
Jazoon is an international conference on Java technology and it's happening this week in Zurich, Switzerland. I'll be giving talk #1840 on Thursday at 1:10 pm and I'll also be staffing the Sun open source both. If you're attending Jazoon... —  Terrence Barr
  (Jun 25, 2007)

Declaring variables
Tips on how variables should be declared —  James Stauffer
  (Jun 25, 2007)

Why GlassFish over JBoss ?
A lively discussion happened on GlassFish Forums where a user asked for pros/cons for GlassFish vs JBoss. A community user explained his reasons to choose GlassFish over JBoss. Here are they key points: Admin GUI and CLI alone are true differentiators. Java... —  Arun Gupta
  (Jun 25, 2007)

jMaki Revolver Widget
After many requests I have created a re-usable widget for the revolver. The revolver provides an alternative way to provide top level navigation. This widget can run in the context of jMaki or in a regular web page.

My first NetBeans Day
And today I was finally able to attend my first NetBeans day, in Zurich!. Brian Leonard, Gregg Sporar, Roumen Strobl, Fabiola Rios gave the attendees an overview of the platform, both as IDE with the three Java editions (standard, enterprise,... —  Fabrizio Giudici
  (Jun 23, 2007)

Recyling old rants... Getter and Setter Methods
I am far from the first person to rant about "Getter and Setter" methods. (some have even said they are evil).. but it's been awhile since anyone has posted a new diatribe on the subject, so what the heck... Please check out my other blog: How not to teach programming: Getter and Setter Methods —  John Reynolds
  (Jun 24, 2007)

SalutafugiJMS -- Java Messaging Service on ZeroConf
SalutafugiJMS is a peer-to-peer implementation of the Java Messaging Service specification that uses ZeroConf DNS-SD discovery and TCP sockets to communicate in a distributed computing system. Name the JMS Queues and Topics for information your system needs to exchange. Your system consumes what your system needs. Your system sends out what it chooses. SalutafugiJMS takes care of the rest, leaving your system very loosely coupled.

Dynamic Data in jMaki Widgets Using JPA
jMaki provides a rich set of data widgets that can be embedded in a web application. For most of the widgets to be useful, they need to be tied a database backend. For example consider a Table widget displaying... —  Arun Gupta
  (Jun 22, 2007)

Beans Binding 0.6.1 Release Available
Two days after the 0.6 release of Beans Binding, the 0.6.1 release is out with simpler and more intuitive method names and constants. —  Shannon Hickey
  (Jun 22, 2007)

Replication? In Java DB? Wow.
Just found out that Egil Sorensen, a student at NTNU in Trondheim, has contributed his thesis work - replication and hot standby for Apache Derby - to the Derby community. —  David Van Couvering
  (Jun 22, 2007)

Making life simpler: the Java EE Operating System
Earlier this year I suggested that the multitude of Java EE implementations is a bad thing... but now I think I didn't go far enough... Why not just build an OS that is a Java EE app-server? —  John Reynolds
  (Jun 27, 2007)

Javapolis and JavaOne presentations
Several of my presentations from JavaOne 2007 and Javapolis 2006 have been put on line. They cover JSF, Seam, Spring, and Hibernate. —  Kito D. Mann
  (Jun 26, 2007)

Enabling/Disabling Swing Containers
From Frame's GlassPane to more advanced technique —  Alexander Potochkin
  (Jun 26, 2007)

Lava Lamp for Hudson projects
Someone posted an article on Hudson Wiki that explains how to drive Lava lamps based on Hudson build status. —  Kohsuke Kawaguchi
  (Jun 25, 2007)

My suggestion for Servlet 3.0
The Servlet 3.0 JSR is out. I have a simple - yet very useful - suggestion for improvement. —  Felipe Leme
  (Jun 25, 2007)