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The Soul Of The Web - Why Ajax Standards Matter

I spoke on a panel at Mashup Camp this week on why Ajax Standards matter. I was quoted by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise as saying that we are...

4 replies - 3360 views - 11/24/08 by Chris Keene in News

OSGi Event Admin with Spring DM

In my current post, I will try to highlight using event admin with spring DM. By an example, we will send an event inside the OSGi container from a notifier...

0 replies - 2948 views - 11/12/08 by slim.ouertani in Articles

A Different Road To Springness: SpringSource Acquires G2One

Today, SpringSource announce yet another important milestone in it's rise as one of the biggest players in the Enterprise Java arena with the acquisition of...

5 replies - 4260 views - 11/11/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Smaller Java

In my previous post I talked about how to reduce the size of your Java binaries without sacrificing functionality. Using Proguard to strip out unused and...

5 replies - 3721 views - 11/11/08 by Dan Dyer in Articles

The Swing Sacrifice

As someone who works primarily on desktop application development, I was disappointed to read Kirill's blog today, where he discusses how JavaFX is taking...

28 replies - 6552 views - 11/06/08 by James Sugrue in News

"Simple" JSF 2.0 Component vs. Tapestry

I just saw an amusing example of JSF 2.0 on Jim Driscoll's blog. He's creating a simple output-only component to display some text in yellow, using an inline...

12 replies - 6443 views - 11/03/08 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles

In Defense of JSR310

I just ran across this ridiculous assessment of JSR 310 and had to comment. I tried to comment on the blog but it was flagged as spam. My response:I agree that...

3 replies - 2781 views - 11/03/08 by Alex Miller in Articles

Java Media Player - Final Chapter?

As those who have been following my blog know, I have dug down deep into the coding of the GUI. I started there since I deemed that to be the most risky part...

9 replies - 3871 views - 11/03/08 by Mikael Grev in Articles

Can the Java Plug-in Compete?

Why hasn't Java become the dominant technology in RIA development?I'm not the first person to ask this question, nor will I be the last. It is unbelievable to...

25 replies - 5678 views - 10/29/08 by mwarble in Articles

Configure Spring to Automatically Re-connect to Your EJBs

If you have a service that is a client of a remote EJB, you may have run into the situation where the EJB server shuts down and restarts.

1 replies - 2621 views - 10/28/08 by Mike Desjardins in Tips and Tricks

Some More JSR 203 Examples

My examples for JSR 203 were focused on the basics but I was really just skimming the surface of a pretty large set of classes. I’ve had some follow up...

0 replies - 3555 views - 10/28/08 by Alex Miller in Articles

Some JSR 203 Examples

I’ve been preparing for some upcoming Java SE 7 Preview presentations I’m doing on the No Fluff tour in Reston, VA and Chicago, IL. I worked up some JSR...

19 replies - 6324 views - 10/23/08 by Alex Miller in Articles

Want Closures in Java 7? Vote!

Although Sun Bug Database is somewhat unpopular it is at least one way to influence the future of Java. I have read many articles on the web where developers...

68 replies - 6011 views - 10/23/08 by Tim in News

Dependency Injection Myth: Reference Passing

After reading the article on Singletons (the design anti-pattern) and how they are really global variables and dependency injection suggestion to simply pass...

0 replies - 4422 views - 10/22/08 by mhevery in Articles

JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series (Part 5) EDR1 Potpourri

This seventh entry in the JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series wraps up the content included in EDR1 (yes, I know I'm a bit behind). The last entry covered...

1 replies - 2947 views - 10/21/08 by Ryan Lubke in News