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Lessons Learned From Spring’s @Autowired

Last November we got Spring 2.5 and with it the possibility to use annotations for dependency injection (DI). Annotations can be used instead or mixed with the...

0 replies - 1082 views - 05/13/08 by Rainer Eschen in News

Top Personal Insights of JavaOne?

Flipping through the pages and pages of notes you may have taken at JavaOne, which ones would you not want to forget? In this case, focus on the personal and...

2 replies - 1652 views - 05/12/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

N-BRAIN, Inc. Announces Coding Competition for Java Software Developers

Are two heads really better than one? N-BRAIN, Inc. intends to definitively answer this question by sponsoring the Hydra Versus Dragon Coding Competition, a...

0 replies - 593 views - 05/12/08 by jdegoes in Announcements

The Best Java Tools You Never Knew Existed

I was at an awesome presentation at JavaOne of the long tail of Java tools that not many people have come across, which I had to share. So, in no particular...

8 replies - 6947 views - 05/12/08 by Jakub Korab in Articles

JFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008

For me, JavaOne 2008 was enlightening, exhilarating and exhausting.  It was great meeting colleagues that I had only known via email and JavaFX mailing...

6 replies - 1140 views - 05/12/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

Facebook Drops Java Support - Loses Another $1B of Fantasy Valuation

This just in from the Facebook-PR-flacks-writing-pure-dross department:"We appreciate all of the effort and time that you've (Java developers, that is)...

15 replies - 3114 views - 05/12/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 2

Part 1 of this series helped provide the background needed to begin exploring web services testing. We learned the basics of SoapUI and how easy it was to...

2 replies - 1418 views - 05/12/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

JavaOne: Extreme Innovation (or James Goslings Showcase) Part 1 of 2

In a week that now seems to have raced by in a blur, the main hall at the Moscone Center was packed to capacity as you would expect when James Gosling is...

0 replies - 2384 views - 05/10/08 by cornsomething in News

Web Frameworks: Comfort vs. Expediency?

Two nights ago I had a conversation with Craig McLanahan, among others, in a slightly dubious sports bar near the JavaOne conference site. When the subject of...

20 replies - 3426 views - 05/08/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

JavaOne: Intel Keynote

It is day three of the JavaOne conference and the first session of the day sees Doug Fisher (VP) deliver Intel’s keynote. He begins by highlighting the fact...

0 replies - 1588 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Software Crisis

Every project manager or project sponser would love to have a model that churned out the probability of a project succeeding or failing. We may never achieve...

0 replies - 2411 views - 05/08/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

JavaOne: AMD Keynote

AMD had a tough slot towards the end of day two, by this point people have been standing in a lot of lines to take in lots of technical information so it was...

0 replies - 1184 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

CommunityOne 2008 Impressions (Day 0 of JavaOne)

The CommunityOne conference this year was on Monday, May 5, 2008, the day before JavaOne "proper". It's easy to think of CommunityOne as a...

0 replies - 1048 views - 05/08/08 by gmatus in News

JavaFX Gets Video Capabilities

Get ready for high quality video on the screens of your life. Sun has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies, to provide immersive media...

6 replies - 2002 views - 05/08/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

JavaOne Wednesday Morning Keynote: "Oracle Enterprise" - Oracle Corp.

Oracle believes Java is integral part of the upcoming transformation of the Enterprise to more Web-2.0-like -- to adopt the look and feel of Web 2.0 and...

0 replies - 1102 views - 05/08/08 by gmatus in News