Pyramid - Poker of ZYH

From: Java-Channel - 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Pyramid - Poker of ZYH is a free solitaire card game. As an applet or as an application, this program should work on any platform that supports Java.

Automate Your J2ME Application Porting with Preprocessing

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Got porting nightmares. If you're considering automating the porting your J2ME applications, you may want to think about using a preprocessor.

Spring 2.0 released

From: IT-archiv - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Spring 2.0 is available for download directly from .

TIBCO General Interface Professional Edition v3.2 released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Version 3.2 (Beta 2) of TIBCO General Interface Professional Edition, an Ajax Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit, is now available through an open source BSD license option. This latest version of General Interface includes support for Firefox 1.5.

For My Next Trick, I'll Need a Volunteer

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Sign up for Swing extensibility... also:Feature Article: Enhancing Swing ApplicationsJava Today: JavaPosse Jini/ComputeCycles interview, converting .NET to Java, and JAX-WS 2.0 introForums: Data buffer and data binding for Swing and BalloonTip-type componentWeblogs: NetBeans GUI builder struggle, image scaling issues, and supporting Visual Basic code in Java.

SAP achieves Java EE 5 certification

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Hoping to land more than a glancing blow against Oracle's claims that SAP is far from standards based, SAP has announced that the latest version of its application server is now certified on Sun's Java EE 5 standard..

Sun to shine on AJAX

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Details on jMaki and Phobos to be revealed at conferencePaul Krill, InfoWorld.

JasperReports Tech Animation by JavaBlackBelt.com

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

In this tech animation from JavaBlackbelt.com, Teodor Danciu walks through the process of creating a jasper report from an XML report definition, step by step and with clear navigation.

XX Framework Version 1.1 - XML/XSL Centric Java Web Framework

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Infoblazer LLC. is pleased to release the XX Framework under the LGPL open source license.

Spring 2.0 goes final

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Spring 2.0 has gone final. This is an update to Spring adding easier configuration for AOP, dynamic language and Java5 support, portlet support, a clearer taglib for Spring MVC, task scheduling, and improved documentation in addition to hundreds of other fixes, even while remaining backward-compatible.

JetBrains Announces IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 Groundbreaking Java IDE Moves Forward

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing applications, announced the release of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, its award-winning flagship Java IDE (integrated development environment). IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 lifts productivity to new levels, supports emerging technologies such as EJB, AJAX, and GWT, and enables faster, easier development of high-quality web applications using a range of servers, with full code analysis and enhanced team collaboration tools..

ActionScript 3: Dynamic classes

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

In Java, if you've created an object from a particular class, you can use only properties and methods that were defined in this class. This is not the case in ActionScript 3.

Mule 1.3, open-source ESB, released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

MuleSource, a leading provider of open source infrastructure and integration software, today released version 1.3 of Mule, a Java-based platform that has become widely adopted for enterprise integration challenges. Mule 1.3 adds support for XFire and other features, as well as transitioning to a new project home.

Crossing borders: Streamlined, Part 2

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Part 1 of this two-article series introduced Streamlined, a Rails-based open source framework that combines the power of Ajax, metaprogramming, and code generation to take Rails productivity to a new level. Part 2 explores how the metamodel behind Streamlined enables customizations.

Sleep 2.1 b6

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The Sleep scripting project has released version 2.1 b6. They write in, 'Relevant changes: Added named parameters.

Legion of the Bouncy Castle 1.34

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle project has released version 1.34 of their Java encryption project. 'If you are using RSA with a public exponent of three you must upgrade to this release if you want to avoid recent forgery attacks that have been described against specific implementations of the RSA signature algorithm.

Vraptor 2.2.1

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The VRaptor 2 web mvc and ioc framework project has released version 2.2.1. 'VRaptor's 2.2.1 comes with improved documentation, a lot of bug fixes and some new functions.

Apache JAMES 2.3.0 RC4

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The Apache JAMES Java SMTP and POP3 Mail server and NNTP News server project has announced the release of version 2.3.0 RC4. It is primarily a bug fix release.

Cobra 0.95.4

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The XAMJ Project has released version 0.95.4 of Cobra, their Java-based HTML parser and renderer. 'Release 0.95.4 fixes a number of CSS issues and makes the API more usable and easier to get started with.'.

Petals 1.0 user guide

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Petals 1.0 user guide.

General Availability release of Funambol v3.0

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The Funambol Team is very pleased to announce the General Availability release of Funambol v3.0 which can be downloaded here: http://www.funambol.com/opensource/downloads.html.

SpagoBI 1.9.1 released !

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

The new SpagoBI 1.9.1 version is out.

An analysis of the Apache Geronimo PetStore demo

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Want practical instructions for building an enterprise application that you can use in your business. The iBATIS PetStore application is an example application that originated from the Sun Java BluePrints program.

Eclipse *now* running on Swing!

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

With the latest SWTSwing release, which allows to run most of the Eclipse SDK, the Java community has a new option. What impacts for SWT and Swing developers, and for Sun.

Software Horror Stories

From: A Java Geek's Diary - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Horrible small mistakes in programming cause good amount of disasters. For me I felt like this is not limited to programming, it is more of starting from requirements gathering, design and testing of the software.

StelsCSV v3.0 - fast Text / CSV JDBC driver

From: Java-Channel - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

*StelsCSV* is a JDBC driver that allows to perform SQL queries and other JDBC operations on text files (CSV, DSV, tab-separated, fixed-length, etc). Using this driver, you can easily create a fast database consisting of plain text files.

JetBrains Announces IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 Groundbreaking Java IDE Moves Forward

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing applications, announced the release of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, its award-winning flagship Java IDE (integrated development environment). IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 lifts productivity to new levels, supports emerging technologies such as EJB, AJAX, and GWT, and enables faster, easier development of high-quality web applications using a range of servers, with full code analysis and enhanced team collaboration tools..

Ruby and Java - Similarities and Differences

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Determine Your Network Interfaces and IP Names

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Use this to determine the names of your network interfaces and IPs. Of course, it can be used only for machines that have more than one network interface..

Stateful Session Clustering: Have Your Availability and Scale It Too

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Stateful application design is just what Java developers need for clustering HTTP sessions. It is easier to code to, more scalable, and more cost effective, and by combining it with network-attached memory, developers can avoid Java serialization while storing state in a central place..

XForms tip: Accepting XForms data in Java

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Much has been made about the ability of XForms to provide interactivity, and to submit information in XML. But none of that will do you any good unless you have a way to analyze the data once you send it to the server.

Google Local Search Integrated with Universal Address via Google AJAX Search API

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 3 weeks, 2 days ago

NAC Geographic Products Inc. (http://www.nacgeo.com) announced the release of the NAC Enhanced Google Local Search (http://www.travelgis.com/local/).

One Small Step for the Blogosphere...

From: Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

I've been an officer of a public company for a while, and I've had access to confidential information for a good while longer. And I'm used to holding my tongue on issues that'd be deemed material to Sun's financial performance.

AgileImposition

From: Martin Fowler's Bliki - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

AgileImpositionagile2 October 2006According to the current board of the Agile Alliance, agile methods have 'crossed the chasm' , which I think means they are becoming more widespread. While this has its advantages, it also brings problems.

Download Oracle Berkeley DB 4.5

From: Oracle Technology Network Headlines - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

This new release now supports multi-version concurrency control, non-stop upgrades for replicated environments, and a pre-built replication framework to simplify development of highly available applications..

Adding New Nodes to Your Oracle RAC 10g Cluster on Linux

From: Oracle Technology Network Headlines - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

A step-by-step guide to adding a node to an existing Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 cluster..

IDEA 6.0 released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

IDEA 6.0, the commercial Java development IDE from JetBrains, has been released. This version improves support for Java EE, and adds tools for GWT, Struts, EJB3, JSF, Javascript, and various application servers.

Podcast: Geronimo Panel Discussion

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

In this podcast, taken from a panel discussion on Geronimo held at TSSJS Barcelona, panelists answer questions about usage and structure of Apache's growingly popular J2EE application server, as well as what Geronimo's future development will be.

Looking for the Next Best Thing

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The upside of bad news... also:Weblogs: Calling out Java doom-sayers, debugging PermGen OutOfMemoryError, and Kirill incorporates Romain's suggestionsSpotlight: Timing FrameworkJava Today: Joys and perils of mass-market Java games, JavaTools Newsletter #96, and GELC buzzForum messages: Timing transition effects and thread-safety in JAXB.

Shame! Shame! Shame!

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

It's a shame that, after years of PHP, Python and Ruby we still do not have a file uploader for JSP and Servlet and we have to import/load third party libs for such an easy task.

Ajax and REST, Part 1

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The more that server-side Web applications become immersive by following rich-application models and delivering personalized content, the more their architectures violate Representational State Transfer (REST), the Web's architectural style. These violations can decrease application scalability and increase system complexity.

When will Sun do a user-friendly, GUI installer for Java on Linux?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

I wrote an opinion story on the Inquirer, saying that Sun could/should provide linux end users with a friendly GUI installer that provides the same experience as the Sun installer on Windows does.

TrackStudio Enterprise 3.5.6

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The TrackStudio Enterprise project has released version 3.5.6. 'Perfomance has been improved significantly for large databases and complex filters.

Berkeley DB Java Edition 3.10

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Berkeley DB Java Edition project has released version 3.1.0. 'Direct Persistence Layer (DPL) is an EJB-style API using Java annotations to dramatically reduce development time, ease schema design, and provide indexed access to objects improving data access times.

Jaikoz 1.1.2

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Jaikoz project has released version 1.1.2. They write in, 'This new release of the mp3 tag editor now fully supports the Unique File Identifier providing full integration with MusicBrainz.

JFormula 3.5

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The JFormula project library for parsing and evaluating mathematical expressions has released version 3.5. They write in, 'Users can enter an arbitrary formula as a string, and evaluate it.

Freeware Caché Monitor 0.32

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Freeware Caché Monitor project has released version 0.32. 'Caché Monitor is an SQL development tool for InterSystems database Caché.

Annotations.

From: A Java Geek's Diary - 3 weeks, 3 days ago

There is a lot of BUZZ on annotations being used and driven in most of the recent programming models like Hibernate, Spring, and in EJB3. Java 5 introduced Annotations as part of language features.

Getting Serious About PDF Content Integration

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 3 weeks, 4 days ago

The PDF file format has become the gold standard of document distribution and archiving. It's therefore virtually certain that data critical to your organization is sitting quietly in PDF documents somewhere.

GUI Bechmarking with MiG Layout Demo. SWT vs Swing, Anyone?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Why not end the week with a little SWT vs Swing benchmarking. I've added a benchmarking mode to the MiG Layout Demo Application.

Is Your Application a Bad Boy?

From: About Focus on Java - 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Looking for a testing tool. Take a look at BadBoy.

Java Product Review: What to Do If Your Code Has No Tests

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 3 weeks, 5 days ago

When MailReader - an example application bundled with the Struts Action framework - was created six years ago, most Java developers had yet to discover unit testing. Consequently neither the Struts framework nor the MailReader were created test-first.

GUI Bechmarking with MiG Layout Demo. SWT or Swing, Which is Fastest?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Why not end the week with a little SWT vs Swing benchmarking. I've added a benchmarking mode to the MiG Layout Demo Application.

TSS Reviews Section revamped

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 5 days ago

The TSS reviews section has been completely updated. It'll continue to get changes in functionality, but the biggest change is that it'll be active again.

Running Java on Vista Disabled Aero/Glass UI Effects

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Microsoft Watch is reporting that running Java on Vista completely disabled Aero/Glass effects on the desktop, not just for the application.

SWING

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Nearly a decade ago, when Java was still a fledgling portable software platform and the Tumbling Duke applet was considered cutting edge, the members of the newly minted Swing team, including yours truly, took in a packed JavaOne session given by Sun's JavaSoft president, Alan Baratz. He told the assembled multitude that our team would be delivering a new GUI toolkit in just 90 days.

Last Call: Semantic Annotations for WSDL

From: WebServices.Org News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of Semantic Annotations for WSDL.

The real motives why industry analysts love to predict Java fall... and why they will spend another 10+ years being proven wrong.

From: java.net Weblogs - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

I wonder why, after so many years of failed predictions, the so-called 'industry experts' still insist that Java is doomed. My conclusion is that they are being mislead by parallels with technologies that are from both a marketing and from a technology point of view radically different from Java.

IBM Web Relational Blocks Released

From: Java-Channel - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Web Relational Blocks (WebRB) is a browser-based visual editor and run-time environment similar to Dreamweaver, which enables developers to visually assemble enterprise-quality Web applications in the visual editor. WebRB can code, test, and debug development cycles directly from the visual editor without needing to install any software which increases the speed of Web application development..

Counting plugins while the IDE hatches... what's IntelliJ IDEA up to?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Plugin contest has encouraged developers to build IntelliJ IDEA plugins in advance of 6.0 release. It leads us to ponder the eternal chicken-egg dilemma 'Which came first, the plugins or the IDE?'.

How to ensure an action is done?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

I'm building a website that generate static html pages to be served by another server. How do I ensure that the page served by the other server is coherent with the data in the database.

Article: Writing Performant EJB Beans in Java EE with Annotations

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

In "Writing Performant EJB Beans in the Java EE 5 Platform (EJB 3.0) Using Annotations," hosted on java.sun.com, Scott Oaks, Eileen Loh, and Rahul Biswas look at performance in three broad areas: developer performance, performance of 3.0 session and message-driven beans, and performance of Java technology persistent entities.

qwickr turbo-charges EJB 3 persistence

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

qwickr is a component that you embed in your application. Using its web console you can easily examine and query EJB 3.0 persistence units deployed in an application via JPQL instead of via SQL.

Doing Agile? Maybe so, maybe not.

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Hani Suleiman recently "biled" Agile practices recently, which managed to bring out a lot of people defending the methodology. Most pointed out that Agile was a collection of ideas that were to be applied as appropriate, and not commandments.

Software: Blitz JavaSpaces 1.26

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Blitz is an open-source toolkit that sits on Sun's JINI installation, providing services. It's a very workable default installation for use and experimentation with JINI and JavaSpaces, a grid-oriented distribution platform.

The Way It Goes

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Do great libraries come from ivory towers or rugged trenches. Also:Java Today: ComputeServer 0.6, Downrush, and Java momentum slowing.

U.S. Daylight Saving Time Changes in 2007

From: Java Technology Headlines - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Daylight Savings Time changes in 2007 will affect Java applications in the United States. Updated Java Runtime Environments contain updated rules to report correct time.

Writing Performant EJB Beans in the Java EE 5 Platform (EJB 3.0) Using Annotations

From: Java Technology Headlines - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

The Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification vastly improves the simplicity of programming EJB beans and increases your productivity as a developer. This article shows you how to get the best performance out of the new EJB 3.0 programming model..

Getting Started With the NetBeans IDE 5.0 BlueJ Edition

From: Java Technology Headlines - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

This article gets you started using the NetBeans IDE 5.0 BlueJ Edition. You'll learn how to load and edit existing projects, and then you'll create a new project and use drag-and-drop features to create a graphical user interface (GUI)..

Meet Shannon Hickey, Technical Lead for the Swing Toolkit Team at Sun Microsystems

From: Java Technology Headlines - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Shannon Hickey, technical lead for the Swing toolkit team at Sun Microsystems, explores his passion for drag and drop, his hopes for a compatibility API, and his creative process as a developer..

Java 2D Trickery

From: Java Technology Headlines - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Chris Campbell, a Java 2D engineer at Sun Microsystems, shares his tips and tricks for creating soft clip, light, and shadow effects using 2D APIs..

qwickr turbo-charges EJB 3 persistence

From: Java-Channel - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

qwickr is a tool for managing JPA persistence used in EJB 3.0 applications. With qwickr, users can execute ad-hoc JPQL statements against the persistence units deployed in the application.

UDoc 1.003

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

The UDoc visualisation tool project has released version 1.003. 'This release supports information loaded from Javadoc (local and remote) and from binary classes, fixes several bugs, and enhances usability with features such as path and class browsers.'.

Ivy 1.4-RC2

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Dependency management project Ivy has announced the release of version 1.4-RC2. 'This second release candidate contains several bug fixes since the first release candidate.

FishEye 1.2

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

The FishEye cvs monitoring project has released version 1.2. 'FishEye 1.2 substantially improves Subversion support, adds new visualizations, email feeds, user preferences, administration, and is faster.'.

Apache Nutch 0.8.1

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

The Apache Nutch search engine project has released version 0.8.1. 'A thread blocking issue that negatively impacted crawling performance has been fixed.

jBPM jPDL 3.2.Alpha1

From: java.net News - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

JBoss has announced the release of jBPM jPDL 3.2.Alpha1. 'jBPM jPDL is a process language targetted for the Java platform.

J2EE Security - A JSF based Login Form

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

I've been over the problems with trying to create a J2EE login formwith JSF before and had pretty much decided that it was simply notpossible to do in a clean way without tags. Well I've been looking at the problem again and have changedmy....

BackBase and BEA looking to pair up in Workshop Studio

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

BackBase and BEA are working to integrate BackBase' AJAX toolkit into BEA Workshop Studio. This is only in proof-of-concept stage, but shows how pervasive AJAX is becoming as a technology.....

Sun to shine on AJAX

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Sun Microsystems will shine more light on accommodations for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in the Java realm at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. next week.

RichFaces - Exadel Visual Component Platform

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

RichFaces - Visual Component Platform 2.0 is a rich component library for JSF built on top of Ajax4jsf, an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business application development. This powerful toolset also includes a 'skinable' ....

JUnit Testing Using Java ME JUnit Frameworks

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Just because Java Micro Edition lacks reflective capabilities doesn't mean Java Micro Edition developers miss out on the advantages of JUnit styled testing. JUnit-styled frameworks and tools can still improve ME application quality..

BEA focuses on flexible, collaborative SOA

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

SOA 360, a platform for SOA deployment, launched at BEAWorld Jennifer Mears, Network World.

Try on Derby for size

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Get started using the Apache Derby database Jeff Hanson.

Two SOA Projects That Can Pay For Themselves in Six Months

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 4 weeks ago

Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible.

Money, Freedom and Open Source

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 4 weeks ago

The current polemic with Java and Open Source boils down to two important issues: money and power..

Exadel announces release of Richfaces - Visual Component Platform 2.0

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 4 weeks ago

Exadel has announced the release of RichFaces - Exadel Visual Component Platform 2.0 for delivering enterprise-level Web applications based on JavaServer Faces (JSF). RichFaces is a components library that can be integrated into new or existing JSF-based Web applications.

Two SOA Projects That Can Pay For Themselves in Six Months

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 4 weeks ago

Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible.

Deploy Java UDRs through Web services on Informix using Rational Application Developer

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 4 weeks ago

Learn how to expose an Informix UDR or UDT on the Web as a Web service. You'll see how to use a JavaBean for interacting with the Informix UDR or UDT, deploying as a Web service using Rational Application Developer..

Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite Released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 4 weeks ago

Stylus Studio, a provider of XML tools and components for advanced data integration, has announced the release of Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite, which provides an environment for building, modeling, editing, debugging and deploying XML applications. This latest release of the XML IDE offers new XML Pipeline and XML Publishing tools.

RichFaces - Exadel Visual Component Platform 2.0 released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 4 weeks ago

Exadel has announced the release of RichFaces - Exadel Visual Component Platform 2.0 for delivering enterprise-level Web applications based on JavaServer Faces (JSF). RichFaces is a components library that can be integrated into new or existing JSF-based Web applications.

Installing Java ... not for the faint hearted

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 4 weeks ago

At the weekend my cousin innocently commented to me that he was having some problems with his Java installation and asked if I could have a look for him. He manages a fleet of lorries that go all over Europe and one of the tools he has is a real time tracker of where every driver and vehicle is.

FishEye 1.2 Released - Subversion and CVS Grokking Tool

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 4 weeks ago

FishEye 1.2 is out. The long awaited third major release of Cenqua's web based tool for grokking source code repositories.

NetBeans gets Facelets Support

From: Javalobby Front Page - 4 weeks ago

New development module for NetBeans allows you to develop Facelets using the IDE. Is this the tool web developers have been waiting for.

On sharing the source code of reusable components

From: Javalobby Front Page - 4 weeks ago

Can you share reusable components developed for your clients during working hours without breaking any laws.

Show Me the Way

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 4 weeks ago

Looking for the future of Jini and of media presentations... also:Feature Article: Jini Beyond the ChoirWeblogs: JDK source control management old and new and preventing cross-site scripting attacksForums: Java vectorization and where's JDK 6 build 100.

inSpyre Flash

From: java.net News - 4 weeks ago

Sesma Systems have released a beta version of their new inSpyre Flash on Java platform. 'The first tool available in the beta version of the platform is the Fling library which allows developers to easily convert existing Swing applications to use a Flash UI.'.

NetBeans 6.0 M3

From: java.net News - 4 weeks ago

The NetBeans project has released version 6.0 M3. 'M3 contains new features you might find interesting.

CloverETL 2.0.0

From: java.net News - 4 weeks ago

The CloverETL Framework project has released version 2.0.0. 'This release is a milestone in CloverETL development history.

Compass 1.1 M2

From: java.net News - 4 weeks ago

OpenSymphony and the Compass development team have announced the release of version 1.1 M2. They write in, 'This is the second milestone release of version 1.1, major features include: Support Unmarshall, Dynamic Meta Data, simplified API usage when working within a transaction, and support for the latest Hibernate and Spring versions.'.

Java Portlets and Django web development at the next meet

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 4 weeks ago

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Using PFX and PEM Certificate Formats with Keystores

From: dev2dev Articles - 4 weeks ago

There are a number of certificate formats in cryptography. This tutorial demonstrates how to convert between the most common formats and build keystores that can be used for two-way SSL.

IBM Web-Hosted Tool for Rapid Web Development

From: Java-Channel - 4 weeks ago

Ad Hoc Development and Integration Tool for End Users (ADIEU) is a programming tool for radically simplified development of Web services and applications. This Web-accessible programming and hosting system provides an environment that lets end users create and deploy dynamic Web pages and Web services without needing extensive knowledge about languages like PHP and Java..

Tapestry: A Component-Centric Framework

From: O'Reilly Network ONJava.com - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Tapestry offers an open source framework for rapid development of web applications using Java. It offers high performance, good code re-use, line-precise error reporting, and more.

The EJB Advocate: SOA represents the next step in the evolution of component-based applications

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Somehow the tables got turned. This month, the EJB Advocate finds himself in the position of advocating SOA-related specifications, such as Service Component Architecture (SCA), as much as those associated with Enterprise JavaBeans..

Java Performance News September 2006

From: JavaPerformanceTuning.com News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

We list all the latest Java performance related news and articles. 'I need two Java performance engineers to work with me.

Whizlabs SCWCD Certification Preparation Kit Review

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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Article: Testing Concurrent Programs

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

In this article, Brian Goetz, author of the recently-released <i>Java Concurrency in Practice</i>, explores some of the major issues in testing concurrent classes, and offers some techniques for constructing concurrent programs that make them easier to test.

Blink

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Take a look at Java2D and SwingX visuals... also:Weblogs: Java2D gradient performance, SwingX painters, and WS-Addressing support in JAX-WSForums: Josh seeks Painter feedback and debugging SOAP messagesJava Today: SCM for open-source Java, NetBeans governance board election results, and Intelligent Tester.

Subversive 1.0.3

From: java.net News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Subversive project has announced the release of version 1.0.3. 'Support for the Quick Diff feature was added.

Blitz JavaSpaces 1.27

From: java.net News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Blitz JavaSpaces project has announced the release of version 1.27. 'A problem where active lease reaping was not purging all relevant entries has been fixed.

Jetty 6.0.1

From: java.net News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Jetty project has announced the release of version 6.0.1. It is primarily a bug fix and refactoring release.

VLDocking 2.1.1

From: java.net News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

VLSolutions has released version 2.1.1 of its Swing docking framework VLDocking. They write in, 'This release is composed of patches (all the submitted bugs have been fixed) and of enhancements such as support for nested docking Desktops and LTR/RTL(Right-To-Left) component orientation for VLToolbars.'.

Surface 1.7

From: java.net News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Surface project has announced the release of version 1.7. 'New features: Fabric 1.6 compatible, advanced example code - cover.js - CD cover visualizer.

Eclipse 3.3 M2, NetBeans 6.0 M3

From: IT-archiv - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Starts to look like a real .

Software: SlickEdit 11.0.2

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

SlickEdit is a monster of a text editor. It has trappings that make its use in editing projects easier - such as build modes, project version control support, tag files, suggestions, and syntax highlighting - but it's really designed and targeted specifically at editing text.

Can I publish Java code as GPL?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Can one mix the proprietary Java core code and GPL application code. How does this jive with the GPL terms.

Using the Logger to Trace JDBC Driver Managers and Drivers

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Using java.util.Logger as your logging/tracing tool allows you to take advantage of the Logging framework..

Eclipse Callisto Project Profile: Web Tools Platform

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Web Tools Platform (WTP) is a powerful set of Eclipse add-ons that make Web application development with Eclipse easier and faster. Take a look under the hood and see how it can help you..

Review of JavaScript Phrasebook

From: About Focus on Java - 4 weeks, 1 day ago

If you can only have one JavaScript book on your bookshelf, then choose O'Reilly's 'Javascript - the Definitive Guide.' But, if you have room for one more, pick JavaScript....

Tech Talk: Peter Walker, Java Business Integration 101

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Learn how Java Business Integration (JBI) contains serial peripheral interfaces (SPI) that can be used to write middleware, integrated middleware, change BPEL (business process execution language) or create new BPEL scripts using business process notation.

What Questions Would You Ask?

From: Bruce Eckel's Weblog - 1 month ago

The questions you forget to ask when you are interviewing for a job, but wish you'd asked after taking the job.

Robert Scoble , the next Katie Couric

From: Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog - 1 month ago

I sat down with Robert Scoble recently to talk about explaining network infrastructure to children, the blog demon that sits on my shoulder, and the future of our marketplace serving network businesses. Please check out his new gig...

Hey, Wall Street, Flex Your Muscles!

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

On August 14, I attended the seminar RealWorld Flex in New York City. I was really impressed by the endless number of presentations showing the use of Adobe Flex 2 technology in the real world applications.

SOA and Integration Testing: The End-to-End View

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

We've seen a dramatic rise in the use of SOA and integration to provide better business process visibility and agility to organizations. The ease and low cost of assembling new systems together makes SOA an efficient and valuable business asset..

Should we scrap our .Net app and start again with Java?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

We spent a year developing in .Net for many reasons (some good, some bad). Now here we are with a beta which works but needs loads of work.

Article: Application security more of a priority, but practices lag

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

A recent survey by Symantec finds more software developers consider application security a priority, but formal education and implementation of secure coding practices still trails. What will it take to change that.

Mess Around

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month ago

Why can't constructors do stuff before calling super(). Also:Feature Article: Stupid Question #13: Java Today: Object oriented robotics, Amazon REST with jSh3ll, and performant EJB 3.0 beansWeblogs: Ajax and desktop conferences, public input to JDK 7, and Vista getting better.

Build Apache Geronimo applications using JavaServer Faces, Part 2: Using Tomahawk with JavaServer Faces

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month ago

This tutorial, Part 2 of a five-part series, introduces you to Apache Tomahawk. In the first installment of this series, you learned about JavaServer Faces (JSF), a new Java-based framework that makes it easier to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications, and you built and successfully deployed a simple JSF application on Apache Geronimo.

Scrap our .Net app and start again with Java?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

We spent a year developing in .Net for many reasons (some good, some bad). Now here we are with a beta which works but needs loads of work.

EJB3 vs Spring: Which one? Why?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

EJB3 and Spring both are very popular these days. How do you compare these two technologies for a new project.

A positive Java news story for a change

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

An area where Java is very dominant, but that doesn't get much press coverage or hype is mobile gaming.

GeoServer 1.3.4

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The GeoServer project has announced the release of version 1.3.4. 'For this release, the embedded MapBuilder client was upgraded, and SLD support for KML output is more robust, including reprojection and a fix to set the proper number of decimal places through the Web admin tool.'.

Java Test Runner 3.1

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The Java Test Runner project, an IoC-based Java testing framework aimed at building stress-test suites both for JSE-based projects and for back-end JEE components (JEE session beans, JMS resources, WebServices), has released version 3.1. They write in, 'This minor release features a set of improvements that extend the usability and improve the overall experience of the developer, introducing support for EJB 3 session beans, too.'.

License4J 1.3

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The License4J project, a pure Java library for creating and validating licenses, has released version 1.3. They write in, 'The new version contains method to retrieve MAC address, fixed bug with random java.lang.SecurityException and is stronger obfuscated by Allatori Java Obfuscator.'.

IzPack Installer 3.9.0

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The IzPack project has released version 3.9.0. They write in, 'This new stable release brings some new features, including new panels and translations, as well as the usual set of bugfixes.

OpenReports 2.0 Final

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The OpenReports project has announced the release of version 2.0 Final. They write in, 'New features include a redesigned user interface, ChartReports, JFreeReport and JXLS integration, support for JasperReports 1.2.6, and security and scheduling enhancements.'.

Fuzz testing

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month ago

Fuzz testing is a simple technique that can have aprofound effect on your code quality. In this article, Elliotte RustyHarold shows what happens when he deliberately injects random bad datainto an application to see what breaks.

In pursuit of code quality: Repeatable system tests

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month ago

Writing logically repeatable tests is especially tricky when testing Web applications that incorporate a servlet container. In his continued quest to improve code quality, Andrew Glover introduces Cargo, an open source framework that automates container management in a generic fashion, so you can write logically repeatable system tests every time..

Vlaue List Handler using CachedRowSet

From: TheServerSide.com: Patterns - 1 month ago

hi all,<br> we all know the list iteration pattern called value list handler. this is best described in<br> core j2ee patterns (<a href="http://www.corej2eepatterns.com/" target="_blank">http://www.corej2eepatterns.com/</a>)<br>here i have implemented the same using cashedrowset available in tiger.<br>(this strategy is also described in core j2ee patterns the only difference is in this case i have used caching of data).

Weird scenario with Hibernate query

From: mindstorm - 1 month ago

As some of you (the JavaZone participants) may already know, on InfoQ we are using both Jackrabbit JCR implementation and Hibernate for persistence (we are trying to put the data where it belongs [smile/]). As always Hibernate is doing a great job and I am very happy with it.

StrikeIron Launches Super Data Pack

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 month ago

New Web services provide 10,000 free hits per month and a single access point to multiple external data sources.

DB Solo 2.0, database development tool, released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

DB Solo has announced version 2.0 of its cross-platform database development and management tool. This release introduces several exciting features such as a Hibernate/EJB 3.0/JDBC code generator, PostgreSQL Schema Comparator, support for Intel-based Macs, SQL Server 2005, Sybase 15, DB2 Explain Plan and much more.

BackBase and BEA looking to pair up in Workshop Studio

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

BackBase and BEA are working to integrate BackBase' AJAX toolkit into BEA Workshop Studio. This is only in proof-of-concept stage, but shows how pervasive AJAX is becoming as a technology.

Defining software architecture roles

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Marty Andrews has written "Defining software architecture roles," which describes what system architects, solution architects, and enterprise architects' actual roles are. Do you agree with his definitions.

Hello World, Part 4: WebSphere Application Server and Application Server Toolkit, V6.1

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month ago

Welcome to the fourth tutorial in the "Hello, World" series, which provides high-level overviews of various IBM software products. This tutorial provides practical exercises to take you through the tasks of assembling, deploying, and managing modules as a J2EE application on a WebSphere Application Server using Application Server Toolkit.

JGAP 3.01 released: grid functionality

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

JGAP is a genetic algorithms and genetic programming package written in Java. It is designed to require minimum effort to use out of the box; this new release adds support for grids.

A PRG Phase Listener for JSF

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

I love the POST-REDIRECT-GET pattern for enabling bookmarks and the back button. JSF allows you to specify a redirect element in a navigation case, but what if you want to automatically redirect every request.

JSP 2.1 and JSF 1.2 composition component wrapup

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

We tried creating a composition component with JSP 2.1 and JSF 1.2. It almost works.

JSF Pluggable look and feel with Facelets and XSLT

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

The last couple of weeks I've been working on what I have called the Edo Framework, a framework for developing the web applications for Ghent University and its partner institutions. The Edo Framework is actually just a collection of best practices and op....

EL-Functors

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

This project is a functor object resolver library and tag library for the Java™ EE 5 unified expression language. It extends the expression language used in JSF1.2 and JSP2.1 pages to directly expose static and dynamic methods and constructors of plain Ja....

Java Performance News June 2006

From: JavaPerformanceTuning.com News - 1 month ago

We list all the latest Java performance related news and articles. 'Performance testing throws up a different set of problems from QA testing.

StAX and XSLT Transformations with J2SE 6.0 Mustang

From: JavaBoutique - 1 month ago

The new StaX APIs make performing XSLT tranformations easier than ever. Find out how to use it.

ColdFusion and AJAX

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 1 month ago

One of the most annoying things about the Web page paradigm is that you have to reload the page whenever you want to do something on the server side. If you want to do a site search, it's sprinkled across two pages..

Using Oracle TopLink with the Spring Framework

From: Oracle Technology Network Headlines - 1 month ago

Build a sample application using Spring 1.2.8 and Oracle TopLink with Oracle JDeveloper 10g, step by step..

Major Zope Content Management App Goes Java

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Nuxeo, the company behind CPS on Zope, is switching to Java, away from Python - specifically, to JBoss AS, Seam, and the OSGi model. Reasons focus mainly on the strength of the Java EE 5 programming model and the maturity of the community.

Not Paying Attention

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month ago

Distracted by media... also:Java Today: JavaTools community newsletter #95, practical JAXB, and Hibernate identity theftSpotlight: HudsonForum postings: Night-vision friendly L&F and does WS-Security matter.

embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) 1.0 GA

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) project has released version 1.0 GA. The project now supports Nokia Series 80 and Windows Mobile.

JXMLPad 4.0

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The JXMLPad project has released version 4.0. They write in, 'This release improves the content assistant, adds comment panel when choosing an element from a DTD.'.

JGAP 3.01

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The JGAP genetic algorithms & programming library project has released version 3.01. They write in, 'JGAP version 3.01 adds grid functionality to the code base of release 3.0.

Jakarta Commons Configuration 1.3

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The Jakarta Commons Configuration development team has announced the release of version 1.3. 'This release adds many new features.

Spring-richclient 0.2.1

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The Spring-richclient's project has released version 0.2.1. They write in, 'Spring-richclient 0.2.1 has several improvements, such as better view support, new binders (shuttlelist, nachocalendar, tiger enums), a new sample 'simple', more improvements and over 50 bugfixes.'.

Enhydra JaWE 2.0-6 released!

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 1 month ago

Enhydra JaWE 2.0-6 released!.

Demofall to highlight Java wares

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month ago

More than 50 percent of featured products are based on JavaJennifer Orr .

XML Compression and Its Role in SOA Performance

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

Looking at the uncertainty and volatility of market conditions today, enterprises are depending on new cutting-edge technology to have an edge over their fierce competitors. At the same time, they try extracting more value from their existing IT investments.

An Introduction to Remote Method Activation (ROA), Part 2

From: JavaBoutique - 1 month ago

Most RMI applications are based on permanent remote objects, which works fine if you need to familiarize yourself with the concept of RMI or if you're developing simple RMI architectures. But RMI's real power is demonstrated in large, ROA-based architectures.

Animate Ajax GUI Widgets for online Games or GIS

From: TheServerSide.com: Patterns - 1 month ago

A simple and innovative pattern to build animated Vector Graphics Images for building highly interactive online applications such as GIS or Games. Also the Image can include Ajax code to communicate with server to get latest state information and update itself for near real-time simulation of dynamic systems.

Resistance is Futile: How to Make Your Java Objects Conform with the Adapter Pattern

From: JavaBoutique - 1 month ago

Ever have a nice, useful piece of code, that you couldn't easily use in an existing application because of a mismatched interface. The Adapter design pattern helps you align interfaces so that code won't go to waste.

Java Test Runner 3.1 has been released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Java Test Runner 3.1 has been released. JTR is an IoC-based Java testing framework aimed at building stress-test suites both for JSE-based projects and for back-end JEE components (JEE session beans, JMS resources, WebServices).

TransferCM 1.2 Released Open Source

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

TransferCM is a web content management system developed to be both design- and user-friendly. Features include an inline WYSIWYG editor, site map, automated navigations, file management and multi-site support.

Carrot2 Search Results Clustering Engine released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Version 2.0 of the Java-based Open Source Carrot2 Search Results Clustering Engine has been released. Carrot2 can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories by combining one of its search results acquisition components with some of Carrot2's built-in search results clustering algorithms.

EJBCA 3.3, the open source PKI, released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

The EJBCA team is proud to release EJBCA version 3.3.0. EJBCA is a fully featured enterprise PKI released under the LGPL license.

OpenAjax Alliance goes live, opens new possibilities for Ajax

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 1 month ago

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Subversion 1.4 breaks existing Eclipse SVN plugins

From: mindstorm - 1 month ago

This evening I had a horid surprise: after upgrading my SVN client (TortoiseSVN) to version 1.4.0 which supports the latest subversion (same 1.4.0) and committing some folder level properties, I was starting to see that some projects in my Eclipse workspace were not anymore recognized as SVN projects. As I do these activities more or less without paying too much attention, I've found myself.

StAX and XSLT Transformations with J2SE 6.0 Mustang

From: JavaBoutique - 1 month ago

The new StaX APIs make performing XSLT tranformations easier than ever. Find out how to use it.

Mainframe SOA Best Practice

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

To ensure the success of your mainframe SOA initiatives, it's important to be able to support both bottom-up and contract-first design approaches. With the former, businesses may see an opportunity to jumpstart the SOA, quickly packaging bite-sized chunks of mainframe code as Web Services, and pushing them out to the rest of the organization to do with them what they will.

AJAX: "XML for Client-Side Computing"

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

XML is a simple, flexible text format initially designed for large-scale electronic publishing. It is flexible, open, and human-readable, and can be learned easily.

Java Fun and Games: Under the sea

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month ago

Explore an 'under the sea' application and its animation engine Jeff Friesen.

Integrate advanced search functionalities into your apps

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month ago

Implement powerful multi-criteria search criteria and filters with LuceneJohn Ferguson Smart.

24 September 2006 - Jakarta Commons Configuration 1.3 released

From: Apache News Online - 1 month ago

Jakarta Commons Configuration 1.3 is now available. This release adds many new features.

Presenting source code text in the Eclipse CDT

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month ago

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IBM alphaWorks Takes a Look Back and Moves Forward

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month ago

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Building your first application with Spring Framework

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month ago

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Make Ruby on Rails Easy With RadRails eclipse IDE

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month ago

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Render Reports Rapidly with BFO

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month ago

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StAX and XSLT Transformations with J2SE 6.0 Mustang

From: JavaBoutique - 1 month ago

The new StaX APIs make performing XSLT tranformations easier than ever. Find out how to use it.

Spring Framework Reaches One Million Downloads

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

The Spring Framework has hit a major milestone, announcing that that the framework has been downloaded over one million times.

Java CMS - What Say You?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

For a small website running servlets on a VPS, which way would you go. PHP has a number of great offerigs, but a servlet container will already be running - would it be better to use a java CMS.

Just Ask a Teenager

From: Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog - 1 month ago

I was on a panel at a telecom tradeshow a few years ago. I was surrounded by top executives from the largest handset companies, a few global carriers, and a couple technologists.

World Machine

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month ago

Jini: more grids, fewer toasters... also:Java Today: Van Simmons on Jini and ComputeCycles, James Gosling videos on Java Champions page, and Glazed Lists 1.7java.net Poll: How active are you in your local Java User Group.

AgileWiki 3.4.3.0

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The AgileWiki project has released version 3.4.3.0. 'Commands are now listed in two columns when there are more than 20 applicable commands.

JSR 307 - Network Mobility and Mobile Data API

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

Motorola has submitted JSR 307 - Network Mobility and Mobile Data API to the JCP for review. 'This JSR provides API's for initiating and controlling data sessions in a mobile device and providing applications control over wireless network selection.'.

JSR 306 - Towards a New Version of the JCP

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

Sun Microsystems has published JSR 306 - Towards a new version of the JCP for review ballot to the JCP. 'This JSR proposes several changes to the JSPA and to the JCP process document.'.

Petals 1.0 Final

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The ObjectWeb Consortium has released Petals 1.0 final. 'Petals is an open source ESB that fully implements the Java Business Integration specification (JSR 208).

LiFT Initial Release

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The LiFT project has made its initial release. 'LiFT is a framework for Literate Functional Testing.

New Security Rules May Expand Data Requirements

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pushing a bill that would require sites to track IP addresses of users for one full year. The primary focus is on ISPs, but social networking sites may be included as well, and what the definition of a "social networking site" is has not been made clear, although primary targets are sites like MySpace.

Petals 1.0 final version

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 1 month ago

Petals 1.0 final version.

Java Bookshelf

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

Finding and buying Java books online is great...as long as you know what to look for. The thing is in many cases it's not obvious from the book title what the book about (I'll give you some examples below).

IBM alphaWorks Takes a Look Back and Moves Forward

From: Java-Channel - 1 month ago

As part of its 10th anniversary, IBM's alphaWorks (aW) took a look at how things started and what's yet to come. This podcast is an interview with Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Rod Smith, and Gina Poole, three aW executives, and explains what we can expect to see in terms of new developments and cooperative development integration in the near future.

Book Excerpt: AJAX Warrior

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

This chapter excerpt walks through the planning, design and implementation stages of an example Ajax application: a game. Author Frank Zammetti covers "naked" Ajax (not using a library or toolkit), JSON, and CSS and DOM scripting techniques.

White Paper: High Performance and Standard Transformation

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

In this white paper, John Davies, CTO of software development firm Century 24 Solutions Limited [C24], introduces the company's Integration Objects (IO) and describes their move to XSLT and XQuery for transformation. He then links to a PDF by Mike Kay, author of XQuery and XSLT, on XQuery.

Tech Talk: Max Katz on Ajax for JSF

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

In this tech talk, given at JavaOne in May, Exadel senior systems engineer Max Katz discusses how well Exadel VCP, a component library for Ajax and JSF, simplifies development with a component-based approach.

Java EE 5 BluePrints for AJAX

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

This AJAXWorld session discusses how Java EE 5 technologies can be used to create next-generation Web 2.0 applications. It covers how rich interactive GUIs similar to traditional desktops can be designed with AJAX, enabling features such as mashups, tagging, and user participation.

Running in the Family

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month ago

Sooner or later, everything will be callable from Java... also:Feature Article: Making Scripting Languages JSR-223-AwareJava Today: Rethinking JCP process, 10th Jini Community Meeting archives, and elegant concurrencyWeblogs: Introducing SwingX painters, 'pinning' internal frames, and well-behaved glass panesForum postings: SwingX painter feedback and converting Java images to native formats.

Simple Chart 1.1

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The Simple Chart, Eclipse plug-in for plotting data, project project has released version 1.1. 'This release adds a a few new classes that make working with Simple chart in a Swing/AWT application easy.'.

JOnbAS Initial Release 0.7.1 alpha

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The JOnbAS, JOnAS plug-in for NetBeans, project has announced their initial release. 'The first 0.7.1 alpha build is out.

JewelCLI Intial Release

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The JewelCLI project has announced their initial release. 'JewelCLI provides an API to parse command line arguments.

Managing Gigabytes for Java 1.1.1

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The Managing Gigabytes for Java project has released version 1.1.1. 'A few important bugs that appeared in 1.1, as well as a very old one, have been fixed.'.

SWTSwing 3.2.0003 - beta

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The SWTSwing project has released version 3.2.0003 - beta. 'This new release supports most of Azureus (using the real dispatch mode and tested on Windows only).' SWTSwing is a port of the SWT graphical toolkit to Swing.

Jahia 5.0, the Open Integrated ECM Suite, released.

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Jahia Ltd. has announced the general availability of Jahia 5.0, an open and unified ECM suite which includes in one single product technologies such as a Content Management Server, a Corporate Portal, a Document Management, a Search Engine, a BPM Server, a Cache Proxy Server and a dozen of collaborative portlets.

Getting started with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 1 month ago

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Allen Holub: Just Say No to XML

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Allen Holub says that XML is the "worst programming language ever conceived," and blames programmers' lack of knowledge of compiler construction for it. He says it's inappropriate to use XML as a scripting language, test-description language, object-relational language, or a control-flow language, among others.

JNDI_NAME vs COMP_NAME - Which one?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

For EJB lookup operations (EJB-2), both JNDI_NAME and COMP_NAME are available. How do you compare those two.

Java's Evolutionism

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month ago

There are maybe times when we should be paid to remove features instead of adding new ones. -Why not applying this to bigger thing too.

OSGi Alliance Members Spearhead Successful Java Specification Request for Java ME

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

The OSGi Alliance announced it has released the mobile specification for OSGi Service Platform Release 4 (R4). This specification received final approval from the Java Community Process as the specification for JSR 232 'Mobile Operational Management.'.

The Time Is Now for Adobe Flash Player 9

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month ago

If past Flash Player download numbers are any indication, Flash Player 9 could have the biggest, early adopter audience of all..

Java Tips

From: Java-Channel - 1 month ago

Many tips about Java (categorized by API).

May 2006 New Java Performance Tips

From: JavaPerformanceTuning.com News - 1 month ago

The latest Java performance tips from around the web, such as 'The 1.5 Executor classes provide very flexible thread pools ... but a simpler thread pool implementation outperfoms it'.

Set up an SQL realm with DB2 Express-C, Eclipse WTP, and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V1.1

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month ago

This tutorial shows you how to set up an SQL realm to implement database security for a Web application using the no-charge Java kick-start package.

ExecuteQuery 3.0, SQL tool, released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

ExecuteQuery 3.0, a free tool for database management, has been released. It features query management, ERD generation, import/export capabilities, and more.

Profiling EJBs in the real world

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

Fred Grott, in "A Question About profiling EJB applications," says that it "seems a better proposition to start at the coding steps to use junit frameworks to assist in profiling EJB apps than waiting until the application is completely developed to profile." It raises a question: how do people profile EJBs in the real world.

Take A Look

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month ago

A new way to view and navigate your code... also:Weblogs: Sourcerer code viewer, Javac hacks, and Ubuntu and JDK 5Forums: Seeking Sourcerer for Swing and JMX without sockets.

BEA Enters OEM Agreement with StrikeIron

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 month ago

BEA to incorporate StrikeIron OnDemand Web Services for Microsoft Excel product into the latest version of AquaLogic Data Services Platform.

AgileWiki 3.4.2.1

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The AgileWiki project has released version 3.4.2.1. 'A bug in which copies of Include CSecs were not working was fixed.

Subversive 1.1.0 M4

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The Subversive project has announced the release of version 1.1.0 M4. 'This release adds 'Branch from Revision' and 'Tag from Revision' actions to the History View.

TrueZIP 6.2.1

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The TrueZip project has announced the release of version 6.2.1. 'This is a maintenance release...

ZK 2.1.1

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

The ZK project has announced the release of version 2.1.1. They write in, 'Over 23 new feature are added and 25 bugs are fixed: support Hibernate thread SessionContext for ZK, support Hibernate 'Open Session In View' for ZK, and support for link and meta directives.'.

EditiX 5.0

From: java.net News - 1 month ago

JAPISoft has released version 5.0 of EditiX - their cross-platform XML editor written in Java. They write in, 'Version 5.0 enhances code assistance, adds a DTD documentation generator, and various other small features.

Support for JOnAS in NetBeans IDE

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month ago

The JOnAS application server is now supported in NetBeans via the JOnbAS plugin, meaning that NetBeans supports JBoss, Glassfish, Tomcat, and WebLogic. The plugin is in early development, so feedback is requested.

Send E-mail from a Web Form Using WebSphere Application Server and the JavaMail API

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 1 month ago

If you've ever wanted to create a Java application that could send out email via a Web form, you need JavaMail in your toolbox. Find out how you can allow a simple JSP page to send out email using IBM tools and the JavaMail API..

Create a SAXSource with InputSource and XMLReader

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 1 month ago

Find out how to use a SAX InputSource and an XMLReader object to create a SAXSource..

Creating composite controls with JSF and facelets

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

JSF, although a powerful framework does not have many tools to assist in the development of composite controls. Whether building a control that has a few controls in it or a control comprised of 100s of children, there is no easy solution.

Use Hibernate and JSF with Less Coding

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

As you can see from the heading, I’d like to talk a bit about JSF and Hibernate. Both technologies promise us better results with less code.

Calling Java Bean WebService from IBM JSF Application

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

Creating and calling Java Bean Webservice is extreme easy at the IBM RSA. I had created a simple webservice and called it from IBM JSF application.

Internet facing JSF Deployments In the Real World

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month ago

People still sometimes question the pervasiveness of JavaServer Faces Technology. That's a good thing because it indicates the IT decison makers of the world are thinking for themselves and not merely following some kind of herd mentality.

Accessing a Database with the JSTL 1.1 SQL Tag Library

From: JavaBoutique - 1 month, 1 week ago

The JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) provides core tags for common structural tasks such as iteration and conditional processing, XML tags for XML processing, internationalization tags for formatting, and SQL tags for database processing. Learn how to use JSTL's SQL tags in a JSP app to retrieve data from a database and display it in a table..

U.S. Daylight Savings Time Changes Will Affect Some JREs

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

Sun has said that changes in daylight savings time that will take effect in the U.S. in 2007 will cause some versions of the JRE to report incorrect time values during some parts of the year.

BEA Guardian: A New Model of Pre-Emptive Support

From: dev2dev Articles - 1 month, 1 week ago

Learn how to solve the integration complexity around ensuring that your application server, installed libraries, hardware, and other software are all compatible and working in harmony.

jBixbe 1.0 Final released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

jBixbe, a stand-alone Java debugger, has announced the release of version 1.0 Final. New features include the possibility to open a dynamic source code view directly for a method in sequence diagram and a text view to display the value of a string reference.

Article: Hibernate 3.1 Used with Tomcat 5.5.x

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

This three-article series describes the configuration of Tomcat 5.5.x and Hibernate 3.1 so they can be used together. Part one describes how to configure the Tomcat 5.5 Context.xml file using raw JDBC to access the MySQL database, part two describes the same process but with Hibernate intead of raw JDBC, and part three illustrates a Hibernate database update and talks about application design in a shopping cart scenario.

App server uptime never perfect

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

Companies are rebooting there application servers overnight, or every week, because they find the application server can't stay up indefinitely.

The Heavyweight Champions are... Springframework and Hibernate?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

Is the combination of Springframework and Hibernate still a 'lightweight' or already a 'heavyweight' champion in the world of Java frameworks.

BEA Announces New SOA-Enabling Technology

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

BEA Systems has announced the general availability of Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT) 1.1, which is designed to allow Tuxedo-based applications to be exposed as Web services. SALT 1.1, a native Tuxedo Web-service stack built on an open-standard SOAP implementation, is designed to help enterprise architects creating mission-critical applications to safely modernize applications to Web services..

Enhydra Shark 2.0-beta5 released!

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Enhydra Shark 2.0-beta5 released!.

Eclipse dominates grassroots IDE survey, sets tone for open source Java

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Eclipse platform dominated a straw poll on integrated development environments, more than doubling the ranking of the next closest IDE in the survey, Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Java 1.6 StAX Performance Comparison.

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

Now that the latest Javolution provides real-time StAX-like classes for XML reading/writting. I thought it would be interesting to compare its performance with the StAX classes included with Java 1.6.

Apache Geronimo and the Spring Framework, Part 2: Building your first application

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month, 1 week ago

Learn how to create a basic, no-frills application on Apache Geronimo using the Spring Framework, a layered Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application framework developed under the Apache License. This six-part tutorial series covers the complete Spring Framework, front to back, including how to implement its functionality with Apache Geronimo.

Java theory and practice: Instrumenting applications with JMX

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month, 1 week ago

Debuggers and profilers can provide insight into an application's behavior, but those tools are often left unused until there's a serious problem. Building monitoring hooks into an application can make it easier to understand what your programs are doing without breaking out the debugger.

Practically Groovy: Reduce code noise with Groovy

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month, 1 week ago

Groovy's concise syntax frees developers from typical Java constructs that are required for code compilation but don't facilitate expressing what a program is really trying to accomplish. In this revival of the Practically Groovy series, Groovy developer and guest columnist J.

The ultimate mashup -- Web services and the semantic Web, Part 3: Understand RDF and RDFs

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month, 1 week ago

The power of the ultimate mashup is the intelligence you'll build into it by using semantic Web techniques, specifically the Web Ontology Language (OWL). But before you can tackle OWL, you want to be familiar with its base language, the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema Language (RDFs).

Inside Apache Geronimo, Version 1.1

From: OSDir.com - 1 month, 1 week ago

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Follow Me

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month, 1 week ago

The era of asynchronicity... also:Feature Article: Asynchronous Web Service Invocation with JAX-WS 2.0Weblogs: Synchronous or confined closures, JavaZone 2006 roundup, and quality metrics and processesJava Today: Japanese JDK translation project, Mobile Service Architecture JSRs, and JavaTools community newsletter #94Forum Postings: JDIC for Mac seeks Windowsisms and authoring JavaHelp.

VRaptor 2.2

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Web MVC and IOC framework VRaptor project has released version 2.2. They write in, 'VRaptor's 2.2 comes with loads of new examples and improved documentation.

Java Embedded Python 2.0-beta1

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Java Embedded Python project has released version 2.0-beta1. 'Numerous improvements including an import facility, javax.script support, support for translating Class objects, and more.

Perst Lite Initial Release

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

McObject has announced the release of Perst Lite, a micro-footprint version of the Perst open source, object-oriented embedded database. They write in, 'Perst Lite targets embedded systems and intelligent devices developed on the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), bringing much-needed object-oriented database services to the fast-growing embedded Java development community.'.

Execute Query 3.0Final

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Execute Query project, a universal database query and browser tool, has just reached version 3.0. They write in, 'This is a more than a revised version - the original code base has been completely refactored and revised.

ULC XML Initial Release

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Canoo has announced the release of ULC XML, a tool that allows developers to create UltraLightClients user interfaces from XML files. 'ULC XML is a free and open-source tool for Canoo’s Java RIA library.'.

BEA Announces New SOA-Enabling Technology

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

BEA Systems has announced the general availability of Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT) 1.1, which is designed to allow Tuxedo-based applications to be exposed as Web services. SALT 1.1, a native Tuxedo Web-service stack built on an open-standard SOAP implementation, is designed to help enterprise architects creating mission-critical applications to safely modernize applications to Web services..

Wikis Move From Being Unorthodox IT Applications to Must-Have Enterprise Software

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

'Many of our largest enterprise and university customers are ready to deploy Confluence down to every employee or student in the organization. What we're seeing is that wikis have gone from being viewed as unorthodox IT applications to must-have enterprise software,' said Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO at Atlassian..

Swing UI is mature while Ajax is still in its infancy

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 1 month, 1 week ago

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Kick-start your J2EE applications using DB2 9 with pureXML and WebSphere Community Edition

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month, 1 week ago

New features in the latest version of the IBM DB2 database make it possible to access and manipulate XML data just as you would data in a standard relational database. In this tutorial, you'll learn to set up a DB2 9 database and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition on a Windows or Linux environment, then write and deploy a Java applications that takes advantage of DB2 9's XML capabilities..

Java API Makes Database Metadata as Easily Accessible as POJOs

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 1 month, 1 week ago

SchemaCrawler is an open-source API that makes working with database metadata as easy as working with plain old Java objects..

AJAX Makes Your Applications Sizzle on WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 1 month, 1 week ago

Learn how to create a CRM application based on AJAX and use this code to kick-start your development of other rich, scalable Web applications on IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition .

AJAXWorld Magazine Announces AJAX "Readers' Choice Awards"

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

SYS-CON Media announced its Readers' Choice Awards to select the 'Best AJAX-driven Websites' as well as 'Best AJAX Software and Tools' available in the marketplace today. In its 10th year, SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards is one of the most prestious award program and is also known as the 'Oscars of the software industry.' Nominations are open as of today at the ajax.sys-con.com website..

Canoo releases ULC XML, XML tool for Java RIA development

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Canoo Engineering has released ULC XML, an open source XML tool that creates UltraLightClient user interfaces from XML files. According to Canoo, ULC XML's major benefit is that the layout of the user interface is separate from the Java classes of the application.

NeoLoad 2.0 released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Neotys has announced the release of NeoLoad 2.0, their load testing solution for web applications. NeoLoad Version 2.0 delivers all of the features of the original, with the addition of simplified scenario creation and improved test monitoring, analysis and reporting.

C/C++ and Java Performance Analysis Toolkit

From: Java-Channel - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Performance Inspector for Windows package is a suite of performance analysis tools that can be used to identify performance issues in C/C++ programs and Java applications. It generates a detailed analysis with graphical and textual views to improve the performance of developing products in a way that's less intrusive than most analysis tools..

Red Hat expands 'stack' with JBoss

From: OSDir.com - 1 month, 1 week ago

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A Physical Presence

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month, 1 week ago

A brief tour for the Swing team... Java Today: Swing Team mini-tour of SoCal JUGs, OS X Mustang preview 6, and Zambro browserWeblogs: Bug-tracking the open-source JDK, animating tables, lists, and trees, and top-level drag-and-drop with MustangForum postings: Huge page support on Linux and Swing best practices.

SOA Practitioners' Guide

From: dev2dev Articles - 1 month, 1 week ago

This comprehensive guide provides best practices surrounding SOA, from defining just what SOA is to understanding how to implement such an architecture, the standards involved and advice on how to manage the services lifecycle.

The Opacity in Transparency

From: Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog - 1 month, 1 week ago

I just got back from a week out talking to investors and customers, and hosting a few customer events in New York City. New York is a cultural center for a number of communities - notably for Sun, those who see technology as a source of value, as a competitive weapon, not just a cost center.

TSSJS 2007 Site Now Live

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Mark the dates: March 21-23, 2007, TheServerSide Symposium 2007 will be in Las Vegas at the Venetian. The Symposium focuses on cutting-edge technologies, and we're excited this year because with all of the change and growth in the Enterprise Java space, there's a lot of interesting ground to cover.

Hands-On Swing: Interacting with Users

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Hands-On Swing free online Swing development guide project has updated its wiki. They write in, 'We have added a new chapter to Hands-On Swing, free online Swing development guide.

Java Plugin Framework (JPF) 0.12

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Java Plugin Framework (JPF) project has released version 0.12. They write in, 'This release features several new functions, fixing errors and internal improvements.

DPML SDK Component Management Platform 1.0.2

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The DPML SDK Component Management Platform project has released version 1.0.2. They write in, 'The 1.0.2 distribution is the third production release and adds additional functionality to the Transit plugin deployment handler.'.

genesis 3.0-EA4

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The genesis project, an open-source enterprise application development framework, has released version 3.0-EA4. They write in, '[Version 3.0-EA4 provides] full SWT support and makes it to possible to use genesis-client features without AOP.

XX Framework 1.1

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Infoblazer has released their XX Framework project under the LGPL open source license with version 1.1. They write in, 'The XX framework is an XML-centric implementation of the MVC development paradigm and includes full automation functionality, where HTML form fields can be mapped directly to database fields for display or update without additional coding.

LogBag: logs groups of messages based on highest priority

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Cameron Purdy recently posted a link to a new logging framework, called LogBag. This framework collects log entries in a "bag," presumably a collection of log entries, and when the bag is completed, whether it's written out or not is determined by the message with the highest severity in the bag.

Letter to the Unconvinced about JavaSpaces

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Owen Taylor, an employee of Gigaspaces, has written a "letter to the unconvinced," covering what JavaSpaces can do and actually does for a given deployment: makes stateful applications go faster, creates fail-safe adaptive service-oriented applications, and enable interoperability.

EclipseWorld 2006 Surprises

From: About Focus on Java - 1 month, 1 week ago

My colleague, Andy Maleh, and I spent a few days in Boston (Cambridge, actually) earlier this month. We were there for EclipseWorld 2006.

Fielded Input Considered Harmful

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Elliotte Rusty Harold has posted "Fielded Input Considered Harmful," expressing an irritation with user interfaces that cater to the programmers' requirements and not the users' needs. He says we should hide our requirements from the user and make things easy for people to use.

Hibernate can meet your validation needs

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

It's important to build data validation into as many layers of a Web application as possible. With annotations, validation got a lot easier.

DevX: Comparison of EJB 3.0 and Spring, Part II

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

DevX has posted the second part of Rod Coffin's series comparing and contrasting EJB 3.0 and Spring. This installment looks into messaging, remoting, dependency management, and intermediation, and concludes by offering an overall analysis of the two technologies and several integration strategies for combining the best of both.

Develop Java EE app on Apache Geronimo with Spring

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Apache Geronimo is making news with its latest release, version 1.1. At its core is the Inversion Of Control (IoC) model, which is aso the core pattern for the Spring Framework.

Plarpebu a java karaoke player for .kar, .cdg, .mp3, .ogg, .mid

From: Java-Channel - 1 month, 1 week ago

Plarpebu plays all popular karaoke file formats. Support many langages and character encodings (like korean, etc.).

Genuitec brightens up Eclipse

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month, 1 week ago

MyEclipse 5.0 gives developers broad, but not deep, toolset for building Java appsAndrew Binstock, InfoWorld.

AjaxChat: Chatting the AJAX Way, Part 2

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month, 1 week ago

Start building your own AJAX-based chat roomFrank W. Zammetti.

A Java database framework: Maintaining control of the development environment

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month, 1 week ago

Protect your data with a Java database frameworkTodd A. Loomis.

Black, White and Gray Box SOA Testing Techniques & Patterns

From: TheServerSide.com: Patterns - 1 month, 1 week ago

Black, White & Gray Box SOA Testing are essential for deploying robust, scalable, interoperable and secure Web Services.

Learn Eclipse Callisto release GMF in 15 minutes

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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Java Plugin Framework (JPF) 0.12

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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1.0-Final of design-level Java debugger jBixbe released

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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IBM Eclipse VPA for Java on Linux Released

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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Develop Java EE app on Apache Geronimo with Spring

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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Azureus and RSSOwl on Swing. End of SWT vs Swing debates?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

The SWT vs Swing debate is soon over: the SWTSwing project is now able to run most of Azureus and RSSOwl.

GWT vs Echo2 - Which way to go?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

I am about to use AJAX for my next project with Java as my programming language. Just wanted your opinion on this.

JSFCentral.com Announces JavaServer Faces Training Courses

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

JSFCentral.com has announced JavaServer Faces Training Courses. The course introduces the developer to the JSF architecture.

The Jakarta Commons Project Announces Java Expression Language (JEXL)

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Jakarta Commons project has announced the Java Expression Language (JEXL). Java Expression Language (JEXL) is an expression language engine which can be embedded in applications and frameworks.

IBM Eclipse VPA for Java on Linux Released

From: Java-Channel - 1 month, 1 week ago

Visual Performance Analyzer (VPA) is an Eclipse-based performance visualization toolkit, similar to Intel's VTune, and AMD's CodeAnalyst for Linux, Java and Windows platforms. It uses three major components that work to narrow down performance problems, show statistics, and examine code execution on IBM POWER processors..

Porting to the NetBeans Platform from the Eclipse RCP

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Kai Tödter, a Principal Engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology, had a recent conversation with Geertjan Wielenga about his experiences porting an Eclipse RCP application to the NetBeans Platform. Geertjan is the fellow responsible for documentation on web services, NetBeans module development, and rich-client application development on the NetBeans Platform.

Top 10 Languages to Learn, Java 3x More Jobs than C#

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

eWeek ran an article recently on the top 10 languages that a developer should learn and gave the important metric of jobs available for that skill. What do you think.

The JVM as an (Un)Common Language Runtime

From: Artima Weblogs - 1 month, 1 week ago

Efforts to make non-Java languages perform well on the JVM accelerated in recent years. The benefits of turning the JVM into a highly-optimized, general-purpose execution environment are many, but so are the challenges.

Building a Portfolio of Services - Part 1 of "Mastering SOA" 1 of "Mastering SOA" 1 of "Mastering SOA"

From: Oracle Technology Network Headlines - 1 month, 1 week ago

In this first installment of the 'Mastering SOA' series, learntechniques and trade-offs involved in building out a portfolio ofmodular services.

11 Java SE exams on JavaBlackBelt.com

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

Core + Collections + IO + Reflection + Networking + Tools + Java SE v5 = thousands of questions.

JBoss Releases New Beta Version for JBoss jBPM

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 month, 1 week ago

JBoss jBPM BPEL 1.1 to become a player in the service orchestration market.

Rapid development and deployment of java web clients

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

In an ideal programming world, you'd spend time on your business code - not writing client<->server transports and protocols, wouldn't you. And regarding packaging and deployment, wouldn't it be great if your client applet fixes and enhancements were available as soon as you've modified the essential part of your code.

Cetia4 REST Framework 1.0.0 Released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Acsinet has released the 1.0.0 version of the Cetia4 REST Framework, which allows the creation of Java Servlet-based applications that can work both as a web application that may be accessed by a typical web browser, and/or a REST web service application that may answer HTTP stateless requests. Extensive documentation and examples are provided.

Bridge the gap between XML and Ajax with JSON

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

A couple of years ago, many developers bet their futures on XML, XSLT, Extensible HTML (XHTML), and a host of tag-based "X" languages. Now, the new rage is AJAX, and investors' eyes are turning toward data-driven Rich Internet Applications that use JavaScript code.

U.S. Daylight Savings Changes in 2007

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Sun's Developer Network has posted "U.S. Daylight Saving Time Changes in 2007," detailing the changes in the start and end dates of daylight savings.

Nice Work If You Can Get It

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month, 1 week ago

Wouldn't you like to build a 'filthy rich' client. Also:Java Today: Romain Guy on 'filthy rich' clients, JDK's and US daylight time changes, and Quick Color Chooserjava.net Poll: What would best help Jini gain traction.

Spring-Dashboard 1.0

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Spring-Dashboard project has announced the release of version 1.0. 'This release contains a framework for gathering statistical runtime information on a Spring Web application, a configurable dashboard view with a default AJAX implementation, and an example application that demonstrates Spring-Dashboard's basic abilities.'.

AgileWiki 3.4.1.2

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The AgileWiki project has announced the release of version 3.4.1.2. 'Two new commands, crDU and crTableDU, have been added.

iText 1.4.5

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The iText Java-PDF library project has announced the release of version 1.4.5. 'This is a minor release with some bugfixes (headers/footers in RTF, rotation in PdfPCells), some new features (style attribute in HTMLWorker, alpha compostite in PdfGraphics2D), and general improvements (null handling, reading files using MappedByteBuffer).

Web Services Description Language for Java 1.5.3

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Web Services Description Language for Java project has announced the release of version 1.5.3. 'This 1.5.3 release of WSDL4J rolls-up the fixes applied since release 1.5.2 into a new binary zip file.

Subversion 1.4.0

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Subversion project has announced the release of version 1.4.0. 'This is a feature release of Subversion, featuring BDB 4.4 and repository auto-recovery support, a new tool for synchronizing repositories (svnsync), major speed enhancements in the versioned filesystem and the working copy, and of course the usual host of bugfixes and minor enhancements.'.

JNIEasy 1.1 - Linux Support

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Innowhere has announced the release of version 1.1 of JNIEasy. They write in, 'JNIEasy 1.1 introduces Linux x86 support and innovations oriented to develop cross-platform Java applications with native dependencies using a single Java source code and multiple native layouts using a C/C++ 'inspired' macro system.'.

Introducing Project Dynamic Faces

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month, 1 week ago

After a few months of steady improvements, we're ready to announce an early access release of Project Dynamic Faces (DynaFaces). The project homepage is.

Pump some AJAX into your JSF application

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month, 1 week ago

In my previous article, 'Put on a Happy MyFace' (July 2006), I showed how to use the JavaServer Faces (JSF) MyFaces component-based framework to create an employee header/detail use-case. Other functionality needs to be added to this application, such as ....

Chart FX Gauges

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month, 1 week ago

Chart FX Gauges delivers a set of components that allow Java developers to quickly and effectively integrate gauges into their Java-based applications. With the addition of Gauges to the Chart FX Java family of products, developers can easily create digit....

Chart FX Statistical

From: JSF Central -- All Channels - 1 month, 1 week ago

Chart FX Statistical adds advanced statistical analysis capabilities to your Java applications. Chart FX Statistical provides numerous additional chart types, a myriad of pre-defined statistical studies, new classes for statistical calculations and much m....

JSFCentral.com Announces JavaServer Faces Training Courses

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

JSFCentral.com has announced JavaServer Faces Training Courses. The course introduces the developer to the JSF architecture.

The Jakarta Commons Project Announces Java Expression Language (JEXL)

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Jakarta Commons project has announced the Java Expression Language (JEXL). Java Expression Language (JEXL) is an expression language engine which can be embedded in applications and frameworks.

Java Developer's Journal Exclusive: 2006 "JDJ Editors' Choice" Awards

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

The editors of Java Developer's Journal are in a unique position when it comes to Java development. All are active coders in their 'day jobs,' and they have the good fortune in getting a heads up on many of the latest and greatest software releases.

Make the Right Decision with Our Side-by-Side Comparison of Spring and EJB 3.0, Part 2

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 1 month, 1 week ago

If you are you know what a hard decision it can be. Explore the similarities and differences between two of the most popular Java technologies today and learn key distinctions in making a technological decision between the two.

XML Voice Editing Toolkit for Eclipse Gets Updated

From: Java-Channel - 1 month, 1 week ago

The newly updated Compound XML Document Toolkit works well with HTML and XML content models and now supports Eclipse 3.2 and Eclipse WTP 1.5. This plug-in for Red Hat uses XML schemas to build Web applications that include voice, graphics, mathematical computations, data entry forms, and other content on a single page without extensive hand coding..

Test your Java language skills - Quiz 1

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 1 month, 1 week ago

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AJAX and Simpler Times

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

We live in the eternal present, yet think mostly about the future and the past. When we are able to stop time and consider what's going on 'right now' or 'these days,' we often think about how our lives and times used to be simpler.

14 September 2006 - Apache Xerces-J 2.8.1 released

From: Apache News Online - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Apache Xerces Project is pleased to announce that version 2.8.1 of Xerces-J is now available. This release fixes several bugs which were present in Xerces-J 2.8.0.

Porting to Netbeans from the Eclipse RCP

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Kai Tödter, a Principal Engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology, had a recent conversation with Geertjan Wielenga about his experiences porting an Eclipse RCP application to the NetBeans Platform. Geertjan is the fellow responsible for documentation on web services, NetBeans module development, and rich-client application development on the NetBeans Platform.

Just You, Just Me

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month, 1 week ago

Maintaining identity and credentials... also:Feature Article: Using JAAS in Java EE and SOA Environments Java Today: Project Looking Glass road-map, Jini Community Meeting report, and KIDS' free GIS mappingWeblogs: GUI's and color-blindness, build/test system for the JDK, and Jini Community Meeting shout-out to EuroOSCONForum postings: Questioning Swing Actions and feedback on JXStatusBar.

New Eclipse IDE Eases Open Source SOA

From: OSDir.com - 1 month, 1 week ago

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Replacing a string in a file using Java

From: Xyling Java Blog - 1 month, 1 week ago

This code can really prove to be a life saver (hope I am not exaggerating an hour of programmer's time ;)This is about replacing a string from a file in a given directory. public static void replaceStringInFile(File dir, String fileName, String match, String replacingString){ try { File file = new File(fileName); if(file.isDirectory()){ //the fileName specified is not a file hence returning.

Hibernate can meet your validation needs

From: Java-Channel - 1 month, 1 week ago

While it's important to build data validation into as many layers of a Web application as possible, it's traditionally been very time-consuming to do so, leading many developers to just skip it -- which can lead to a host of problems down the road. But with the introduction of annotations in the latest version of the Java' platform, validation got a lot easier.

What do you want to see in a Look and Feel?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

On his blog, Romain asks 'Is there anything you would like to know about Swing and Java2D?' Let me rephrase his question a bit...

Best asynchronous communcation technique

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

What is the best technique to follow to achieve asynchronous communication between two different systems which are agreed on a common XML for communication.

Eclipse RCP vs. NetBeans Platform

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Kai Tödter, a Principal Engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology, had a recent conversation with Geertjan about his experiences porting an Eclipse RCP application to the NetBeans Platform.

Are Open Source Software Tools Better than Commercial?

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

A recent poll asked to compare the quality of open source and commercial software development tools. And the winner is...

You Know IOException? Think Again!

From: Chase The Devil - 1 month, 1 week ago

I was amazed today to find out that there was no constructor IOException(String, Throwable) or IOException(Throwable) in JDK1.4 and JDK1.5. It is finally in JDK1.6, I can't believe it took Sun that much time to change that.

Using the AquaLogic Interaction Analytics 2.0 OpenUsage API

From: dev2dev Articles - 1 month, 1 week ago

BEA AquaLogic Interaction Analytics 2.0 collects information on user activity within your portal and Web applications. This tutorial shows how to embed this functionality within your own applications using the Analytics OpenUsage API.

Read the First Line of a Text File

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 1 month, 1 week ago

This code shows you how to use the instance methods from the FileReader and BufferedReader classes with a Xalan 2 processor to read the first line from a text file..

The Roundup May 2006

From: JavaPerformanceTuning.com News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The roundup of performance discussions over the last month. Kirk covers some interesting issues: 'all Thread.sleep() can do is put your thread to sleep for the specified number of milliseconds.

Don't Let Hibernate Steal Your Identity

From: O'Reilly Network ONJava.com - 1 month, 1 week ago

Hibernate has one set of ideas about how to make something unique, such as using a database sequence number as an ID. But this clashes with Java's need for implementations of equals() and hashCode() that determine identity for objects, even those that haven't yet made a trip to the database and thus can't have a sequence number.

Suggestions for Client/Server Messaging Framework

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 1 week ago

If you had to developed Swing-based client and server applications from the ground up, what messaging (networking) framework would you use.

Eclipse XML Forms Generator for Red Hat

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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JsTester 1.2 Released

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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Mastering Ajax with DOM-based Web applications

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 month, 1 week ago

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AJAXWorld Magazine: SAP Is Using Adobe Flex

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 1 week ago

SAP TechEd conference opens in Vegas. The big guy is using Flex as a client for Java.

Article: Bonita v2 series, part 3

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

This third article in a trilogy on Bonita v2 steps back and deals with the application layer, demonstrating how to couple a workflow engine (Bonita) and a portal (eXo Java Content Repository). Revenant shows how workflow processes can be deployed, managed and monitored through JSR 168 portlets, along with how Bonita can validate documents contained in eXo.

13 September 2006 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.0 Beta 1 Now Available

From: Apache News Online - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Apache Ant Project is proud to announce the first beta release of one of its standalone Ant libraries -- The Apache .NET Ant library 1.0 Beta 1. The Apache .NET Ant library contains the 'old' support task for developing software for the .NET platform but also adds support for common tools of the .NET world like NAnt or NUnit.

J2EE Pattern Oriented Framework (Jt) & Jt Messaging Pattern

From: TheServerSide.com: Patterns - 1 month, 1 week ago

Jt is a lightweight pattern oriented framework for the rapid implementation of J2EE applications. Jt has been utilized in several large mission critical systems.

10 September 2006 - Jakarta Commons JEXL 1.1 released

From: Apache News Online - 1 month, 1 week ago

Jakarta Commons JEXL 1.1 is now available. For details of what's new in JEXL 1.1 please see the changes report.

Anomaly detection system dzAudit released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Decision-Zone Inc. has released dzAudit, a business process anomaly detection system that monitors and correlates in real time all events in a business process for anomalies with comprehensive audit trails.

Ruby, My Dear

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month, 1 week ago

More on JRuby and Sun... also:Java Today: 10th Jini Community Meeting, JRuby @ Sun, and NetBeans podcast #14Weblogs: Bug-tracking the open-source JDK, fonts for I18N, and The 'Fanboy Menace'Forum postings: Windows feedback on building JDK and flowing text in Swing?.

Microsoft Open Specification Promise

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Microsoft announced a legal statement that assures developers and customers can implement specifications through a simplified method of sharing of technical assets, while recognizing the legitimacy of intellectual property.

YourKit Java Profiler 6.0-EAP-build1068

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The YourKit Java Profiler project has released version 6.0-EAP-build1068. 'A bug was fixed that caused a JVM crash with the 'disablecounts' agent option.

SubEtha SMTP 1.0.4

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The SubEtha SMTP project has released version 1.0.4. 'An issue where HELO/EHLO was required after a RSET has been fixed.'.

Terracotta for Spring Initial Release

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Terracotta has announced the release of Terracotta for Spring. 'Terracotta for Spring is a runtime for Spring-based application that provides high-availability and high performance clustering for your Spring applications with zero changes to the application code.

SQLiteJDBC 0.22

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The SQLiteJDBC project has released version 022. 'Statements that do not return a ResultSet are now correctly reset.

Java Expression Language (JEXL) Announced

From: java.net News - 1 month, 1 week ago

The Jakarta Commons project has announced the Java Expression Language (JEXL). 'Java Expression Language (JEXL) is an expression language engine which can be embedded in applications and frameworks.

Atomikos Transactions Essentials 3.0: open source JTA/XA

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 1 week ago

Atomicos Transactions Essentials 3.0, a package providing JTA/XA transactions for JDBC and JMS, has been released under the Apache license. It's been designed for easy integration into Java applications, despite competing with CICS and Tuxedo.

Java Docking dilemma

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

In my subjective opinion, today no professional-looking docking solution exists aisde from Eclipse RCP or Netbeans. Is there any alternative for those of us who are weary of bunches of generated code.

Terracotta for Spring now available

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Terracotta for Spring is a runtime for Spring-based applications that provides high-availability and high performance clustering for Spring applications with zero changes to the application code. Terracotta for Spring provides plug-in capacity, availability and scalability for Spring applications with absolutely no changes to existing code.

Sun brings JRuby in-house

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Sun Microsystems has hired the lead developers on the JRuby project, an open source project aimed at developing an implementation of the Ruby language on the JVM.

Java Episode VI : The Fanboy Menace

From: java.net Weblogs - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The debate about the old Java 5 and new Java 7 language feature is an interesting one. And perfectly valid too.

Most Used Language for AJAX Development? Java. Least used? Ruby

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

For all those saying Java is dead, why is it still the most used language for AJAX development. And for all those who say Ruby is what will kill it, why is it the least used.

GemFire 5.0, distributed operational data store for scalability

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

GemStone Systems has announced the release of GemFire 5.0 Beta 1. GemFire provides distributed data caching, transactional support, object queries, multiple language bindings, distributed messaging capabilities, and more.

Open source group to pay people to work on app security projects

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Open Web Application Security Project hasn't been able to get volunteers to finish projects. That has resulted in the loss of corporate sponsorship for many projects.

We See

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Taking a look at look-and-feel development... also:Feature Article: How to Write a Custom Look and FeelWeblogs: Josh's magnifying glass hack source, Mason on a concurrency gotcha, and James Gosling on the closure 'black hole', Java Today: Gizmoball, Mifos, and Separation of concerns in webappsForum postings: Putting Swing's pieces together and scheduling method executions in GlassFish.

Hibernate can meet your validation needs

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

While it's important to build data validation into as many layers of a Web application as possible, it's traditionally been very time-consuming to do so, leading many developers to just skip it -- which can lead to a host of problems down the road. But with the introduction of annotations in the latest version of the Java platform, validation got a lot easier.

Apache Geronimo and the Spring Framework, Part 1: Development methodology

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Apache Geronimo is making news with its latest release, version 1.1. At its core is the Inversion Of Control (IoC) model, which is also the core pattern for the Spring Framework, a layered Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application framework developed under the Apache License.

Tech Tip: String Length and Equality

From: Java Technology Headlines - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

This Tech Tip describes common problems and suggests solutions for determining both length and equality of String objects..

Building Mashup Portlets

From: Java Technology Headlines - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Find out how to build a sample mashup portlet by merging geospatial data with an AJAX-based mapping service and deploy to Sun Java System Portal Server 7..

Using Default Renderers in JavaServer Faces Technology to Add AJAX Functionality to Existing Components

From: Java Technology Headlines - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Read about how to use JavaServer Faces technology to build a library of reusable components and make your web pages' AJAX functionality available to a large community of users..

MXBeans in Java SE 6: Bundling Values Without Special JMX Client Configurations

From: Java Technology Headlines - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Learn about an important new feature of the Java Management Extension API in Java Platform, Standard Edition 6: MXBeans, a convenient way to bundle related values without requiring special client configurations to handle the bundles.

Early Draft Review: JSR 283 - Content Repository API 2.0

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Day Software has published an early draft review of JSR 283 - Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0. 'As the version 2.0 of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, the aim is to further expand and refine the specification based on feedback from the community.'.

Allatori Java Obfuscator 1.2

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Allatori Java Obfuscator project has released version 1.2. They write in, 'The new version has additional configuration property ‘random-seed’, fixed method template matching, fixed classpath handling, optimized log file writing and optimized resource management.'.

Liquid L&F 2.9

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Liquid L&F project has released version 2.9. 'This version includes improved progress bar and tabbed pane delegates as well as several corrected issues.'.

Enhydra Application Framework 7.0-4

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Enhydra Application Framework project has released version 7.0-4. It includes many features to provide request pre-processing and response post processing, and many updates to included packages.

soapui 1.6 beta2

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The soapui web services development and testing tool project has released version 1.6 beta2. They write in, 'We are happy to finally release soapui 1.6 beta2 which introduces a large number of fixes and many minor improvements, including: syntax highlighting in groovy editor, improved memory management under long running tests, support for external log4j configuration, greatly improved Groovy script performance and memory usage, Undo/Redo in most editors, extended Property-Expansion to allow specification of step and property, new tabbed layout mode for request/response editors, and UI 'modernization'.'.

Sun Teams with Red Hat to Integrate NetBeans and JBoss Application Server

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The NetBeans and JBoss development teams are pleased to announce the availability of a single install program that includes both NetBeans IDE 5.5 Beta2 and JBoss Application Server 4.0.4.

Parasoft JTest 8.0 released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Parasoft has announced the release of JTest 8.0, their Java analysis and testing solution. JTest 8.0 introduces a number of new features and improvements, focusing on static code analysis, code review tools, automatic generation of JUnit test cases, Cactus integration, and Bug Detective, which simulates a runtime environment to find bugs.

New Version of Code Analysis and Unit-Testing Solution is Now Available

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Parasoft Jtest 8 extends Java EE and SOA functional testing, delivers breakthrough bug finding technologies.

Open source group to pay people to work on app security projects

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Open Web Application Security Project hasn't been able to get volunteers to finish projects. That has resulted in the loss of corporate sponsorship for several projects.

Google Makes Threatening Noises in Microsoft's Direction

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Google on Monday started the second phase of its push into Microsoft's desktop turf. It's wrapped up its Gmail e-mail, Google Talk instant messaging, Google Calendar and WYSIWYG Google Page Creator web page publisher in a free, ad-based, highly scalable, software-as-a-service package it calls Google Apps for Your Domain.

Register for Oracle Develop (at Oracle OpenWorld)

From: Oracle Technology Network Headlines - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

At Oracle Develop (Oct. 23-25), the premier developer program at Oracle OpenWorld, you'll learn how to simplify development using popular technologies like Java, .NET, XML, and PL/SQL, as well as Ajax, PHP, Spring, Grails, and more.

Eclipse XML Forms Generator for Red Hat

From: Java-Channel - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

XML Forms Generator now includes a schema-flattening utility, an auto-detect renderer option, Eclipse 3.2 support, and Eclipse WTP 1.5 support, and more. This standards-based, data-driven Eclipse plug-in generates functional forms with XForms mark-up embedded within an XHTML document on Red Hat.

Article: Naked Objects 3.0 - Integration with Hibernate

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

In this article, the Naked Objects group looks at new features included in the Milestone 1 release of version 3.0 of the Naked Objects framework. Among the changes are a POJO programming model and integration with Hibernate.

Sun Hires the JRuby-guys

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Tim Bray has posted a blog on Suns surprising move to hire the JRuby guys Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo.

Borland Together promises to take applications from requirements to code faster than ever

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Is IoC / Dependency Injection Overated?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Is IoC / dependency injection overrated. After all, it only really benefits us if we ever need to swap out an implementation of an interface.

webMethods to Acquire Infravio

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The addition of Infravio's SOA governance capabilities is expected to accelerate webMethods' marketplace momentum.

EAF 7.0-4 is released!

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

EAF 7.0-4 is released!.

Continuent ships clustering products for MySQL and PostgreSQL

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Continuent has announced the release of uni/Cluster in PostgreSQL and MySQL editions. uni/Cluster, based on Sequoia, offers a multi-master approach to replication, committing data to all nodes simultaneously.

Decidedly

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Of polls and ballots... also:Java Today: NetBeans governance board elections, JavaTools newsletter #93, and mobile event trackingSpotlight: GlueGenWeblogs: The power and pain of POJO's, blocks and locks, and extending GlassFish's WebContainerForum postings: GlassFish certificates and realms and Mustang Web Start cache changes.

Good Software Books - 2006 version

From: Chase The Devil - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Here is an update of the most interesting software books I found interesting. I already made such a list in 2005: Object Oriented Software Construction, 2nd Ed, by Bertrand Meyer.

Content Repository 2.0 spec in Early Review

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Last week, the Content Repository for Java Technology 2.0 (JSR283) had its early draft review released. Most changes seem centered on clarification of how XPath works within JCR, as well as some clarification on references.

The Power and Pain of POJOs

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

In "The Power and Pain of POJOs," Cay Horstmann describes his experiences writing a JavaEE application using EJB3 and JSF in a "couple of days," from the perspective of "Elvis," the prototypical programmer who just wants to get things done - and presumably the target programmer for whom EJB3 was designed.

Sleep 2.1-b4

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Sleep scripting language for Java project has announced the release of version 2.1-b4. 'This release adds a debug option for tracing function calls.

Jericho HTML Parser 2.3

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Jericho HTML Parser project has announced the release of version 2.3. 'Version 2.3 includes important bug fixes as well as some minor improvements to source indenting functionality.'.

Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition 5.3 SP2 (Linux)

From: java.net News - 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The SDE for Eclipse project has announced the release of version 5.3 SP2 (Linux). 'Support was added for generating BPEL for the Oracle and Jboss (jBPM) workflow engines.