New JBoss Licensing Implications?

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 3 days ago

JBoss has filed an issue changing the license for the JBoss Application Server to be closer to the Red Hat license model - possibly indicating a fork to JBoss similar to that between Red Hat and Fedora, according to one TSS contributor. JBoss says that the license change only closes some loopholes regarding branding and export controls.

ActiveBPEL 3.0 M2 Released

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 week, 4 days ago

Milestone 2 provides full support for the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification as well as continued support for the BPEL4WS 1.1 specification.

Easy Money

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 week, 4 days ago

More just-pick-it-up-and-use-it Java stories... also:Java Today: Popular JavaPowers MMOG, JSR-202 final draft, and Free Java LecturesWeblogs: Mixing 2D and 3D, NASA maps for Swing apps, and generating JavaScript on the flyjava.net poll: How many open-source Java projects have you contributed code to.

XML Web-based Framework for Java Development

From: Java-Channel - 1 week, 4 days ago

IBM Servlet-Based Content Creation Framework supports and enforces the separation of content and presentation in an easily-used and understood way to develop Web-based applications. This update includes new getAttributes helper functions to further simplify the processing of attributes while still using the Simple API for XML to read template files on Java..

DbVisualizer 5.1

From: java.net News - 1 week, 4 days ago

The DbVisualizer project has released version 5.1. 'This release has a new visual Query Builder, support for the JavaDB/Derby database, a new permission verifier, generates create DDL for tables and views, and a lot more.'.

GeoServer 1.4-M2-WCS

From: java.net News - 1 week, 4 days ago

The GeoServer project has released version 1.4-M2-WCS. 'While the 0.2 release was a mere prototype, this work is the result of many optimizations at the geotools level, with scalable data reading for arcgrid, geotiff, gtopo30, image mosaics and pyramids, and georeferenced PNG, JPEG, and TIFFs.'.

JBossIDE for Eclipse 2.0.0.Beta2

From: java.net News - 1 week, 4 days ago

JBoss has announced the release of JBossIDE for Eclipse 2.0.0.Beta2. It includes a create WebServices node, and several bug fixes.

jIRCii b40

From: java.net News - 1 week, 4 days ago

The jIRCii project has announced a new release, version b40, after a year long hiatus. They write in, 'This release upgrades the scripting engine to Sleep 2.1-b6.

Component Templates for Assets and Artifacts

From: java.net News - 1 week, 4 days ago

IBM alphaWorks has released Component Templates for Assets and Artifacts. 'Component Templates for Assets and Artifacts is an Eclipse-based toolkit that allows developers to focus on business aspects of the development process instead of the technological.

The Portlet Repository Protocol

From: WebServices.Org News - 1 week, 4 days ago

The Portlet Repository Protocol (PRP) project seeks to define a common Web Service API used to communicate with disparate portlet repositories.

Is Sun's Bug Fixing Policy a Failure or Success?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 week, 4 days ago

I think we all know that one of Sun's highest priorities regarding Java is compatibility and stability. Is this a strength or weakness.

Glyph: Annotations and Utilities for Jini

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 4 days ago

The Glyph project, which provides annotations and utilities for Jini, has made its first release. Glyph makes the creation of Jini services much easier than the default tools do, by providing a simple @Service annotation that marks an implementation as an exported Jini service.

Portlet Repository Project: creating services to find portlets

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 4 days ago

Roy Russo has announced the creation of the Portlet Repository Project, which "seeks to define a common Web Service API used to communicate with portlet repositories. It will also establish the format and meta-data to be included when defining a specific portlet within a repository." Participants include JBoss Portal, Sun's Portal Server, and more.

Developing JDBC Applications with DB2's pureXML

From: DevX: Latest Java Articles - 1 week, 5 days ago

Combining XML's features with JDBC provides powerful choices for manipulating data within your Java applications. Find out which new DB2 features simplify this integration..

Test your Java language skills - Quiz 2

From: IndicThreads.com: Java Developer Station - 1 week, 5 days ago

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Business-ready Java Template Toolkit for Eclipse

From: Java-Channel - 1 week, 5 days ago

Component Templates for Assets and Artifacts is an Eclipse-based toolkit that allows developers to focus on business aspects of the development process instead of the technological. This Java-implemented toolkit automatically enforces all template-defined constraints which make it easier to create ready-to-use and reuse assets or artifacts..

Structure101 Version 2 Rating the Quality of Your Software Architecture

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 week, 5 days ago

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UNIX tips: Become a better blogger with UNIX

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 week, 5 days ago

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JsTester 1.3 released

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 1 week, 5 days ago

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Java Tip 121: Flex your grid layout

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 week, 5 days ago

Unfortunately, the JDK does not include a GridLayoutclass that allows for a matrix layout with multisized cells (rowsof different heights or columns of different widths). To obtainthat type of layout, developers usually useGridBagLayout, creating long and cluttered code asthey add components into a container.

Java Tips Author Guidelines

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 week, 5 days ago

These guidelines will help you create valuable Java Tips forsubmission to JavaWorld magazine. Please read themcarefully and be sure your tip incorporates the necessary elementsprior to submitting it.

Revisiting the logout problem

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 week, 5 days ago

In 'Solving the Logout Problem Properly and Elegantly' (JavaWorld, September 2004), Kevin Le presented a solution that was effective in preventing users from accessing any restricted page via a browser's Back button once they finished the logout process. But a quirk remains: If users continue clicking on the Back button after already logging out, they will eventually return to the resource that was the target of the login form POST request, and the browser will display confusing warning messages.

MuleSource targets open source ESB

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 week, 5 days ago

October 9, 2006-A startup built around the Mule open source integration project has made its corporate debut.

Extreme makeover: JavaWorld edition

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 1 week, 5 days ago

For more than a decade now, JavaWorld has been providing the tools that Java professionals need to program applications in the real world. And as a birthday present, we've given JavaWorld a much-needed makeover.

Java database PointBase 5.5

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 5 days ago

DataMirror has released the latest version of PointBase, its Java relational database. Version 5.5 includes constant mobile access with a secondary database and real-time update alerts to BlackBerry users.

Integrate Crystal Reports in Web applications using Rational Application Developer, Part 2: Embed Crystal Reports in Web applications using JDBC Connection at design time and JNDI Connection at run time

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 week, 5 days ago

Learn how to embed Crysal Reports in Web appliations, using JDBC connection at design time and switching to JNDI connection at run time..

Does Groovy have any momentum?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 week, 5 days ago

After doing quite a bit of work with Ruby, I'm seeing a lot of the weaknesses in the traditional 'Java' way of doing things. I'm curious, does Groovy have any momentum.

BEA Updates Kodo and Weblogic Workshop

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 5 days ago

BEA has announced Kodo 4.1 and BEA Workshop for Weblogic 9.2. Kodo 4.1 includes the OpenJPA architecture as well as other improvements, and WebLogic Workshop unifies the versioning of the IDE product line as well as being the first version of the plugin to be distributed via Eclipse Update.

Arjen Poutsma: Domain Drivel

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 5 days ago

Arjen Poutsma, in "Domain Drivel," suggests that rich domain models may not be all they're cracked up to be - that "it is not a silver bullet. Use it when it gives an advantage, but dont swear by it." Considering that most of us store data via a relational database - which forces an anemic model - it's good to keep this in mind.

The Challenges of SOA

From: Latest Articles From WEBSPHERE JOURNAL - 1 week, 5 days ago

'Our processes are bulletproof. Nothing gets into production that doesn't go through the proper and complete approval process.' Famous last words uttered by far too many enterprise architects.

Six Principles For Programming

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 5 days ago

The Empathy Box blog has "5 Principles For Programming," which details six fairly popular ideas in one handy reference: fail fast, write less code (and don't repeat yourself), computer programs are for people, do the right thing, reduce state, and know your 'stuff.'.

Double-checked locking and the Singleton pattern

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 1 week, 5 days ago

All programming languages have their share of idioms. Many are useful to know and use, and programmers spend valuable time creating, learning, and implementing them.

21st Century Schizoid App

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 week, 5 days ago

Where does the web app end and the Swing app begin. Also:Feature Article: Web SwingingJava Today: java.net commons, NetBeans newsletter #261, and Introducing the Google Web ToolkitWeblogs: Reconsidering closures, how to black-box test Ajax, and why is Sun's sample code so bad.

IBM Web Service Streaming Engine

From: java.net News - 1 week, 5 days ago

IBM's alphaWorks has released IBM Web Service Streaming Engine. 'The IBM Web Service Streaming Engine is a multi-media streaming server, able to stream audio, video, images, and text (closed captioning).

AgileWiki 3.5.0.6

From: java.net News - 1 week, 5 days ago

The AgileWiki project has released version 3.5.0.6. 'Semantic relations, except for inferred relations, were not working in pathnames.

H2 Database Engine 1.0/2006-10-10

From: java.net News - 1 week, 5 days ago

The H2 Database Engine project has released version 1.0/2006-10-10. 'Support for domains (user defined data types) and UUIDs (universal unique identifiers) has been added.

Apache JAMES Server 2.30rc5

From: java.net News - 1 week, 5 days ago

The Apache JAMES Server development team have released version 2.30rc5. It is a bug fix release.

ObjectLab Kit

From: java.net News - 1 week, 5 days ago

The ObjectLab project has announced release 1.0.1 of Objectlab Kit for Java 1.5. They write in, 'It is available immediately for download via SourceForge or the Maven Central Repository (both Maven 1 and Maven 2).

Structure101 Version 2 released: Rate the Quality of Your Architecture

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 5 days ago

Headway Software has released Structure101 Version 2. This product shows the complexity of a project's architecture, at the method, class, and jar levels.

Java Module System (JSR277): Early Draft available for review

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 week, 5 days ago

JSR277, which goal is to define a new Module System for the Java platform, has published an early draft available for community review. We have one month to provide feedback to the expert group.

Make formal parameters implicitly final

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 week, 5 days ago

I Suggest to make the formal parameters of methods implicitly final. Ability to assign a new value to primitive or reference type formal parameter is in fact an ability to write unclear code.

Sun Embraces JRuby

From: About Focus on Java - 1 week, 6 days ago

Sun Microsystems is actively pursuing the idea of 'officially' supporting languages other than Java on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This will continue the move that Java is making from....

June 2006 New Java Performance Tips

From: JavaPerformanceTuning.com News - 1 week, 6 days ago

The latest Java performance tips from around the web, such as 'Binary search is O(log2(N)). This means that a 1 ms search of a million items, will take 1.05ms to search 2 million, 1.10ms to search 4 million, and a whole 1.301ms when you get up to 64 million!'.

Eclipse code-folding plugin: Coffee-Bytes

From: mindstorm - 1 week, 6 days ago

In a previous post I was talking about some small changes I have applied to one of the first OSS projects I was a core developer and committer: Coffee-Bytes. After that post, I have received quite a few messages expressing their interest in this plugin and the changes I have done to make it work with Eclipse 3.2.

Developers: Preview Oracle Developer Content and Register

From: Oracle Technology Network Headlines - 1 week, 6 days ago

At Oracle Develop, you'll learn from world-leading experts about how to simplify development using popular technologies like Java, SOA, .NET, XML, and PL/SQL, as well as Ajax, PHP, Spring, Groovy on Rails, and more.

Hammurapi Rules supports JSR-94

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 6 days ago

Hammurapi Group has announced the latest release of its rules engine product, Hammurapi Rules. This release adds support for JSR-94.

ObjectLabKit 1.0.1: Date Calculators for Business and Finance

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 6 days ago

ObjectLab has announced the release of version 1.0.1 of ObjectLab Kit for Java 1.5, available for download via SourceForge or the Maven Central Repository. The Kit provides Date Calculators and comes in two versions: one based on pure JDK (1.5) and one based on the Joda-time library (1.3+, JDK 1.5).

Chapters: Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 6 days ago

According to Steven Haines, performance and scalability testing are crucial to successful application deployment. These two chapters, taken from <i>Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Scalability</i>, illustrate how to set up a proper testing environment and the strategy of ensuring performance before testing for scalability.

String is not a good universal datatype

From: Javalobby Front Page - 1 week, 6 days ago

Peter Veentjer wants to make clear that using Strings as a datatype is terrible for design of objects. The development may be faster on the short run, but on the long run, a price has to be paid.

Podcast: John Davies on the Investment Banking Technology Stack

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 1 week, 6 days ago

In this podcast, taken from a keynote presentation given at TSSJS-Europe, C24 co-founder and CTO John Davies discusses the technology stack used by investment banks. The presentation covers what banks like or don't like and why, what they use, what they'd rather not use, and what they're looking at for the future.

Radio (Part 1)

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 1 week, 6 days ago

Remarkable new Java Media apps... also:Java Today: Java streaming media server, JXTA kitchen announced, and wiseman projectWeblogs: ApacheCon tutorials, REST for GlassFish, and LayoutManager shoot-outForum postings: JPA and large result sets and extending look-and-feels.

SOA Meets BPM: AquaLogic Business Process Management 5.7 Launched by BEA

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 1 week, 6 days ago

In the first release since acquiring Fuego in March 2006, BEA today unveiled AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7, billing it as 'a major step forward in bridging Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) closer together.'.

Jalopy 1.7

From: java.net News - 1 week, 6 days ago

The Jalopy source code formatter project has announced the release of version 1.7. They write in, 'A new Jalopy release is now available that brings long awaited features like selective formatting of code portions, nested profiles and new indentation/wrapping features.

Aranea 1.0 RC4

From: java.net News - 1 week, 6 days ago

The Aranea MVC project has released version 1.0 RC4. 'Changes in Release Candidate 4 include: last minute cleanup of Lists and Form Lists API, major updates to Reference Manual, some updates to Javadoc and Tutorials, a lot of fixes…'.

VRaptor 2.2.1

From: java.net News - 1 week, 6 days ago

The VRaptor MVC 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.

Jess 7.0RC2

From: java.net News - 1 week, 6 days ago

The Jess rule engine project has released version 7.0RC2. 'Significant performance enhancements.

Artix ESB 4.1

From: java.net News - 1 week, 6 days ago

IONA have released version 4.1 of Artix ESB. The new revision includes improvements to management features.

XMLC 2.2.11 is out

From: ObjectWeb Consortium News - 1 week, 6 days ago

XMLC 2.2.11 is out.

Understanding the Home Subscriber Server (HSS) Sh interface

From: dev2dev Articles - 1 week, 6 days ago

This article explains the way in which a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) can communicate with a WebLogic SIP Server, including the retrieval and update of HSS data.

Sun: "We Have Been Building a Rock-Solid Release of Java for Windows Vista"

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

'We have been building a rock-solid release of Java for Vista,' declares Sun's Chet Haase, an architect in the Java Client Group who spends most of his time working on graphics and performance issues and futures. 'In fact, we have been tuned into this release and making Java work on it since it was named after a breed of cattle.' (A reference to Microsoft's earlier 'Longhorn' codename for what is now Vista.).

Multi-Platform XML Custom-Coded Java Framework

From: Java-Channel - 2 weeks ago

The Systems Management Framework for Distributed Environments is a multi-platform custom-coded Java framework that provides a single point for executing system management tasks in a distributed WebSphere environment. It uses XML files as the basic customizable configuration objects and is easy to extend by providing a new XML file and writing a single Java injector class.

Sun: "We Have Been Building a Rock-Solid Release of Java for Windows Vista"

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

Apache Jakarta BSF Scripting Framework Officially Released

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

Apache Jakarta, a top-level Project of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), announced the first official release of Apache Jakarta BSF v 2.4.0, a scripting framework for Java. BSF v 2.4.0 allows Java programmers to invoke non-Java programs with as few as two lines of code written in any of the BSF-supported languages, including BeanShell, BML, Groovy, JavaScript (Rhino), JudoScript, NetRexx..

Iona releases Artix ESB

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 2 weeks ago

Iona, a SOA infrastructure solutions provider, has announced the latest release of its Artix Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). New features include expanded standards, platform and transport support, enhanced orcestration, and management capabilities.

Revised Article: Hibernate 3.1 Used with Tomcat 5.5

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 2 weeks ago

Bill Treuman and Igor Dayen have responded to reader feedback generated by their article posted last month with a newly revised and updated version. The new article explains the chosen programming style, and an instance variable has now correctly been reposted as a local variable declared within a method.

The Death of Yesterday's Datacenter

From: Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog - 2 weeks ago

An executive from a mobile phone company recently told me the feature most requested by buyers in their fastest growing geography (India) was an LED flashlight. Not a camera, but a flashlight.

Download Oracle JHeadstart 10.1.3

From: Oracle Technology Network Headlines - 2 weeks ago

Generate complete ADF Faces applications including wizards, shuttles, trees, list of values, multi-row insert/update/delete, advanced and quick search capabilities, deeplinking, conditionally dependent items, dynamic breadcrumbs, and more..

Frame By Frame

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 2 weeks ago

The many pieces of a video game... also:Feature Article: Development of a 3D Multiplayer Racing GameForum postings: Where to start with Swing and Java SE 6 out-of-box performanceJava Today: What is Java Content Repository, PCL Parser, and Fuzz TestingWeblogs: Build machines and test machines, evolving languages with new keywords and David Herron on lessons learned.

Task-focused programming with Mylar, Part 1

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 2 weeks ago

Mylar enhances productivity by seamlesslyintegrating tasks into Eclipse and automatically managing the context ofthose tasks as you work. In this first half of a two-part guide to usingMylar, Project Lead Mik Kersten introduces Mylar's task managementfacilities and integration with repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, andJIRA..

Task-focused programming with Mylar, Part 2

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 2 weeks ago

Mylar enhances productivity by seamlesslyintegrating tasks into Eclipse and automatically managing the context ofthose tasks as you work. In this second half of a two-part guide tousing Mylar, Project Lead Mik Kersten explains how Mylar's contextmanagement facilities make multitasking easy and reduce information overloadwhen you're working on large applications in Eclipse..

Easier Scripting for Java With The Apache Bean Scripting Framework (BSF)

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

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BEA Announces the Availability of WebLogic Platform 9.2, AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7 and ALES 2.5

From: WebServices.Org News - 2 weeks ago

The products are designed to provide a tightly unified foundation for BEA SOA 360ÃÂº platform, optimize business processes for SOA and help strengthen security.

Three, two, one...Geronimo!, Part 2: Building the beast

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 2 weeks ago

Get a cookbook-style guide for downloading, installing, and configuring Apache Geronimo for productive use. A pinch of this and a dash of that, and voila.

Apache Geronimo and the Spring Framework, Part 3: Integrating DAO and ORM

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 2 weeks ago

Extend the Apache Geronimo application you created in Part 2 of this six-part tutorial series. First you explored the Geronimo application server, the Spring Framework, and Inversion of Control (IoC).

Ganymed SSH-2 for Java Build 210

From: java.net News - 2 weeks ago

The Ganymed SSH-2 for Java development team has released Build 210. 'This release adds support for SFTP v3, HTTP proxies, connection monitoring, improved port forwarding, better compatibility for the Diffie-Hellman group exchange, and enhancements in the SCP code.'.

YourKit Java Profiler 6.0-EAP-build1076

From: java.net News - 2 weeks ago

The YourKit Java Profiler project has released version 6.0-EAP-build1076. 'The maximum number of shown paths can now be changed inside the 'Paths' view.

SQLiteJDBC 025

From: java.net News - 2 weeks ago

The SQLiteJDBC project has released version 025. 'SQLite was upgraded to 3.3.8, which supports full text search.'.

Antmod 1.3.2

From: java.net News - 2 weeks ago

The Antmod build-release-repository management project has released version 1.3.2. They write in, 'Antmod is available now with Subversion 1.4 support.

AgileTrack 0.7d

From: java.net News - 2 weeks ago

The AgileTrack project has announced the release of version 0.7d. 'This release focuses mainly on bug fixes and minor feature updates.

JSF Backing bean naming

From: Javalobby Front Page - 2 weeks ago

What JSF backing bean naming convertions do you use. Please express you opinion and/or you best practice.

Automation for the people: Remove the smell from your build scripts

From: developerWorks : Java technology : Technical library - 2 weeks ago

How much time do you spend maintaining project build scripts. Probably much more than you'd expect or would like to admit.

Ajax-Style Programming Meets Java: OpenLaszlo and Java ME Technology To Be Integrated

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

'This collaboration will bring the richness of the modern web, the power of Java technology and the unique capabilities of OpenLaszlo together for the benefit of our respective developer communities,' said Robert Brewin, CTO of Sun Microsystems' software group, as Sun and Laszlo Systems today announced a collaboration to enable OpenLaszlo applications to run on devices supporting Java ME..

SubEthaSMTP 1.1, SMTP server component in Java, released

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 2 weeks ago

SubEthaSMTP is a Java library which provides a receptive SMTP server component. By plugging this component into your Java application, you can easily receive SMTP mail using a simple abstract Java interface.

Codign Software Releases CoView 2.2

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 2 weeks ago

Codign Software has announced the release of CoView 2.2 for Eclipse. CoView creates JUnit tests that execute a method's logical and data-driven paths.

Persisting Beans into JSR-170 Content Repositories

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 2 weeks ago

OpenWFE has written a library to persist JavaBeans to any JSR-170 compatible content repository under the BSD license. This library allows persistence and retrieval any of the persisted objects, list or maps of beans, making the content repository a workable datastore.

jbi4corba released, allowing CORBA services to participate in JBI

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 2 weeks ago

Jbi4Corba, a JBI compliant binding component, has been released. It allows mapping a CORBA service as an internal JBI endpoint.

Google Code Search - Only for geeks?

From: Xyling Java Blog - 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Google launched code search (refer title of this post) for the software developer community. From this CNET news post, 'Google expects that the search engine will be used primarily as a learning tool to help students and serious programmers, rather than a way to find and copy another person's code.'I had a first look at it and feel its a bit geeky.

Apex, the Java-Like World's First On-Demand Programming Language and Platform Launched

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

Salesforce.com has announced Apex, the breakthrough new multi-tenant programming language and platform that will deliver the future of business applications. Apex will empower customers, partners and developers with the same language and platform that have allowed salesforce.com to build its industry-leading on-demand service.

BEA Exec Re-states BEA's Position on Open Source

From: Latest Articles From WEBLOGIC JOURNAL - 2 weeks, 1 day ago

It is the day before BEA World Prague, and it seems like a good time to revisit what BEA's position on open source is. As I travel across the globe, I have been describing our position to developers, and they instinctively understand it.

The Lazy BuilderÃ¢â¬â¢s Complexity Lesson

From: Artima Articles - 2 weeks, 1 day ago

This article investigates the complexity guarantees made by the C++ Standard Library. By analyzing and measuring the performance of alternative solutions to the same problem it shows how this library allows us to write code that is both simple and efficient.

Tech Talk: Geert Bevin on RIFE

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

In this tech talk, given at JavaOne 2006, Geert Bevin, founder of RIFE, discusses various features of the full-stack, open-source Java Web application component framework. In particular, Bevin focuses on continuation support and RIFE's templating syntax.

Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With

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

Adventures in licensing... also:Spotlight: True License Collection (TLC) projectJava Today: Swing's past/present/future, Nokia's 'widgets' for ME, and JavaTools newsletter #97 Weblogs: FUD-busing Java on Vista, secure static versioning, and Sun's scripting language supportForum postings: JDK 6 and 7 status and activities and where's JDIC for Mac again?.

Apache Derby 10.2

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

David Van Couvering has announced the release of Apache Derby 10.2. 'This release includes the following new features: GRANT/REVOKE support, online backup, SHOW TABLES and DESCRIBE, ability to run command-line tools without a classpath using derbyrun.jar (e.g.

Jakarta Bean Scripting Framework - First Official Release

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

The Jakarta Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) development team has released version 2.4.0. 'This is first official release of the Jakarta BSF product from Apache Software Foundation.'.

JNode 0.2.4

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

The JNode development team has announced the release of version 0.2.4 of the JNode.org operating system. They write in, 'This release features the first possibility of basic development under jnode.

Mule ESB 1.3

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

The Mule development team have announced the release of version 1.3. They write in, 'Noteworthy items include; XFire streaming SOAP support, JavaSpaces integration, JAAS security improvements, Spring remoting, full character set encoding, more App.

Apache Tomcat 4.1.34 Stable

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

The Apache Tomcat development team has released version 4.1.34 Stable. 'This build contains numerous bug fixes, documentation updates, and other improvements.'.

Carrot2

From: java.net News - 2 weeks, 1 day 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 ready-to-use search results acquisition components with some of Carrot2's built-in search results clustering algorithms.'.

Has anyone ever done an SWT Extreme GUI Makeover?

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

Romain Guy's Extreme GUI makeover's on Swing give a lot of marketing hype to Java/Swing and by extension NetBeans RCP as a platform for developing desktop apps. Are similar things possible with SWT.

TeeChart for Java v1

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

Steema Software is pleased to announce the release of teeChart v.1 forJava. The new release supports all major Java programming languages including Borland JBuilder, IBM Eclipse, Sun Netbeans, IntelliJ IDEA and Oracle JDeveloper.

MPEG4/MP3 Streaming Engine for Apache

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

IBM's alphaworks project has publicized a multi-media streaming engine that integrates with existing web-based enterprise applications, has been tested on Apache Axis and WebSphere service hosts, and can run on both Linux and Windows. It's freely downloadable with registration.

Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 3.1.0: Direct Persistence Layer

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

Back in February of this year Sleepycat Software posted a note to TSS asking for feedback on a new POJO persistence API for Berkeley DB Java Edition. Since then, Sleepycat has become part of Oracle, released a beta version of the new API, and just last week released the final 3.1.0 version of Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition.

Closures without Complexity

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

Bob Lee, Doug Lea, and Josh Bloch have written up another proposal for closures in Java, offering a shorthand notation for "single abstract method" types, such as Comparators or Runnables. For these types, the suggestion omits the keyword 'new,' the class declaration, and the method name from class instance creation expressions.

Try on Derby for size - Java World

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

Jeff Hanson illustrates how to get started using the Apache Derby database. In this tutorial, he covers installation, use as both an embedded database engine and as a network server, creation and deletion of a database, and more.

Instant Messaging in Java Made Easy: The Smack API

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

Jabber is a popular and widely supported XML-based API for exchanging instant messages. You could compose the messages by hand, but there's an alternative.

08 October 2006 - Apache Tomcat 4.1.34 as Stable

From: Apache News Online - 2 weeks, 2 days ago

The Apache Tomcat team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tomcat 4.1.34 stable. This build contains numerous bug fixes, documentation updates, and other improvements.

MPEG4/MP3 Streaming Engine for Apache

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

The IBM Web Service Streaming Engine uses standards-based streaming protocol to stream mp3 audio, MPEG-4 video, images, and text through external content management. This multi-media streaming engine integrates well with existing web-based enterprise applications, has been tested on Apache Axis and WebSphere service hosts, and can run on both Linux and Windows..

Password Recovery for MS Access

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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HXTT Text (CSV) Pure Java JDBC Drivers v3.0

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Eclipse Wikipedia Editor plugin version 2.0.5 released

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Bliki Wikipedia Syntax rendering engine 2.0.5 released

From: JSurfer - riding the Java wave - 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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07 October 2006 - Jakarta BSF 2.4.0 released

From: Apache News Online - 2 weeks, 3 days ago

The Jakarta BSF team is proud to announce the release of BSF-2.4.0 (Bean Scripting Framework). This is first official release of the Jakarta BSF product from the Apache Software Foundation / the Apache Jakarta Project.

Getting all IP addresses of local machine

From: Xyling Java Blog - 2 weeks, 3 days ago

This is one code that saved hours for me. Thanks to jguru for sharing the code that gives me all the IP addresses associated with my system.Simply calling InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress() cannot solve the problem as it may return only one IP address.The code (point to the title of this post) gives you the IP address of all your network connections including your public IP that is created when you connect to internet.[Resource-Type: Source Code; Category: J2EE, J2SE; XRating: 5].

Web Services conceptual architecture

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

Web services being prominent in the market with its greatest advantage being interoperable. IBM has published web services conceptual aerchitecture document to give insights of web services architecture.

LogicBlaze FUSE Now Offers an Eclipse Based Integrated Development Environment

From: Latest Articles From JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

LogicBlaze, a provider of open source solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and business integration, announced the availability of the LogicBlaze FUSE Development Environment. Based on the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP), the FUSE Development Environment is an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for developers and architects to easily design integration projects that comprise standard Java Business Integration (JBI) components..

DesignedInheritance

From: Martin Fowler's Bliki - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

DesignedInheritancedesign6 October 2006One of the longest running arguments on object-oriented circles is the debate between OpenInheritance and Designed Inheritance. The principle of Designed Inheritance is probably best summed up by Josh Bloch: 'Design and document for inheritance or else prohibit it'.

Liberty Alliance Releases Final Version of ID-WSF 2.0 Web Services Standards

From: WebServices.Org News - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Liberty Alliance announced the release of the final version of ID-WSF 2.0, a framework for building and managing privacy-respecting, secure and interoperable Web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs).

Instant Messaging in Java Made Easy: The Smack API

From: TheServerSide.com: News - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Java.net has published "Instant Messaging in Java Made Easy: The Smack API," by John Ferguson Smart. It covers Smack, which is a client library for using XMPP (the Jabber protocol); articles like this could clear the way for someone writing a resource adapter for J2EE applications sending out messages or listening for specific messages.

Where does static really fit?

From: Javalobby Front Page - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Ricky Clarkson has an interesting observation about how static methods still fit in the days of dependency injection. Should we still use static methods.

Revisiting the logout problem

From: Latest headlines from JavaWorld - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Recipes for JSF and StripesKevin Hoang Le.

Results from NetBeans debugging survey available

From: Javalobby Front Page - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

NetBeans team today published results from the recent survey focused on debugging capabilities of the NetBeans IDE. Over 400 developers responded, so the findings are representative.

Lawyers, Guns, and Money

From: Editor's Daily Blog - 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Angry about plagiarism and spam... also:Java Today: JCP elections begin, spring-annotation project, and Java2D trickeryjava.net Poll: Which proposed JCP change is most important to you.