Van Riper contacted me about this Wednesday's Bay Area JUG Roundup 2010. The roundup will take place at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood City, CA, from 6 to 9 PM, Pacific time...
Arun Gupta has published TOTD #134: Interceptors 1.1 in Java EE 6 - What and How ?
TOTD #129 explained Managed Beans 1.0, this Tip Of The Day (TOTD) attempts to explain the basics of Interceptors 1.1 - a "new" specification introduced in the Java EE 6. The specification is not entirely new as the concept is borrowed from the EJB 3.0 specification and abstracted at a higher level so th
On Developerworks, Andrew Glover has a new article, Java development 2.0: NoSQL
NoSQL datastores like Bigtable and CouchDB are moving from margin to center in the Web 2.0 era because they solve the problem of scalability, and they solve it on a massive scale. Google and Facebook are just two of the big names that have bought in to NoSQL, and we're in early days yet. Schemaless datastores are fu
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart is seeing JavaOne Acceptances on Twitter and History on Google:
The acceptances for presentations at JavaOne have started to arrive, and the agenda for the conference can almost be constructed just from searching on twitter for #javaone... and it seems a good set of sessions. Google's new search tool for tweeter history clearly shows the spike the acceptance-driven spike
The Java Tools Community announces: Updated NetBeans Samples Catalog Now Available!
The NetBeans Documentation team is pleased to announce the availability of the updated Samples Catalog on netbeans.org. In this catalog, you can find a variety of sample applications packaged as NetBeans IDE projects that are used throughout the NetBeans IDE tutorials. Browse the list of our sample projects f
Two talks at JavaOne this year:
S313580 - "Swinglabs Dev Update" with Karl and Alex ... I hope guys will do most of the talking :D
S314239 - "Building Content Management solutions based on Java Content Repository" together with Greg
BTW for those wondering what is happening with the swinglabs.org, server have been recently moved around yet again. It is now...
Selenium is a popular web testing framework, that works well for both regression tests and acceptance tests. It works well almost all web applications, even those using complex AJAX-based user interfaces. However, writing maintainable Selenium scripts is harder than it looks, and in the real world these test scripts often fall into disuse as they become less and less maintainable.
In this issue...
Hello, I need to start some functionality on GlassFish 2.1 server's startup. I've played with a LifecycleListener implementation and have this working for my domain. My application needs to run on a GlassFish cluster. The actual...
On behalf of the Metro development team I'd like to inform you about our new clean-up initiative and solicit your feedback. As of now Metro does not have a runtime API apart from the set of
standard JAXB, JAXWS APIs bundled as part...
I am trying to develop a web service contract first, and I need to have some cross referencing between objects within the same response XML document due to performance and data redundancy issues. So I am using the xsd:ID and xsd:IDREF types to specify...
I've been working on a restarted version of the "OpenJDK Developers' Guide" and I have a draft far enough along for general discussion. The content of the existing guide is primarily logistical and procedural in nature; in time, I plan to migrate this information to a JDK 7 specific page because many of the details are release-specific. The new guide is more conceptual and once completed is intended to be able to last for several releases without major updating. The table of contents of draft version 0.775 is...
