Waterfall & Agile: Friends or Foes?

Alberto Gutierrez provides a detailed comparison of Agile & Waterfall, in this three part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

JPA Performance Comparison

Daniel Rubio compares the performance of three popular JPA implementations - EclipseLink, Hibernate, and OpenJPA.  

Daily Dose - Check Out the EJB on That JBoss AS

The fourth JBoss Application Server 6.0 milestone was released this week.  It is the first to include support for EJB 3.1 Timer Service and EJB 3.1 Asynchronous invocations. M4 also comes with a...

DZONE DAILY DOSE by Mitchell Pronsc...

Functional Programming Concepts in JDK 7

There's much excitement about JDK 7 and in particular Lambdas! I've waded through the bloat to help you get an understanding of it. If you search for JDK 7...

7 replies - 2796 views - 07/31/10 by Alex Collins in Articles

The key to being a good programmer

One blog topic that never seems to get old is what makes a good programmer, or how to be a good programmer, or what you can do to be a better programmer. The...

3 replies - 1574 views - 07/30/10 by Andy Gibson in News

Why Scala’s “Option” and Haskell’s “Maybe” Types Won’t Save You From Null

The more I think about it, the less I understand the point in Scala’s Option class (which originated in Haskell under the name Maybe). If you read the...

5 replies - 816 views - 07/30/10 by Cedric Beust in Articles

Introducing DataValve

DataValve is a free open source library that facilitates the creation of re-usable view and data access components as well as providing a number of features...

1 replies - 690 views - 07/30/10 by Andy Gibson in Articles

The JVM Language Summit 2010

I’ve just come back from three days in Santa Clara, spending time with some of the brightest people in the Java world - the JVM language summit is truly a...

0 replies - 707 views - 07/30/10 by Ola Bini in Articles

Is Canonical A Free Rider in the Linux Community?

Some interesting statistics came out of the GUADEC conference this week, and with them, a fiery condemnation blog by former Red Hat employee Greg DeKoenigsberg.

3 replies - 1334 views - 07/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Using Apache OpenWebBeans with Apache Tomcat

This article is about how to configure Apache Tomcat 6 or 7 to use OpenWebBeans based dependency injection. What is Apache  OpenWebBeans? OpenWebBeans is an...

0 replies - 684 views - 07/29/10 by Gurkan Erdogdu in Articles

Oracle Pulls the Rug Out From Under PostgreSQL

Before the Oracle acquisition, Sun was contributing three servers to the build farm for the PostgreSQL project to test updates and ensure stability on...

5 replies - 3153 views - 07/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

IntelliJ IDEA X Early Release - Major Spring, Groovy, and Maven Upgrades

The release of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 last year brought a flurry of extra excitement with JetBrains' announcement that there would also be a FOSS Community Edition...

1 replies - 2435 views - 07/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Clojure Tips From The Experts

This first set of tips is from:Baishampayan Ghose Find him on Twitter. His GitHub a/c.It’s hard to pin point a few good tips because Clojure can do so many ...

1 replies - 1107 views - 07/29/10 by Satish Talim in News

512000 concurrent websockets with Groovy++ and Gretty

We are staying in front of new world - all major browsers either support already or plan to support in next major version HTML5 (not in scope of this article)...

6 replies - 2857 views - 07/29/10 by Alex Tkachman in Articles

A Tricky Lazy-Exception With JSF

JSF with Seam and JPA is quite a powerful combination. However, you still have to be aware of many nuances. I plan to share some of these, starting with a...

0 replies - 731 views - 07/29/10 by Gabor Farkas in Tips and Tricks

Apache Pivot: Is this the Future of Java RIA?

The Apache Software Foundation Blog recently began running a new feature entitled "The ASF Asks", intended to hep raise awareness of some of the...

11 replies - 3349 views - 07/29/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

Kent Beck's Test Driven Development Screencasts

Following the recommendations of Corey Haines, Michael Guterl, James Martin and

0 replies - 1202 views - 07/29/10 by Mark Needham in Articles

Life in the Time of Java 7

I’m currently in the process of implementing Seph, and I’ve reached an inflection point. This point is the last responsible moment to choose what I will...

1 replies - 2473 views - 07/29/10 by Ola Bini in Articles