Frameworks

Plugable Swing – A Hello World OSGi Example

There are a lot of OSGi applications available, but a minority of them is aimed at the client side. Here I will list some on Swing:

4 replies - 3639 views - 09/17/09 by Peter Karich in Articles

SQLJet: Working With SQLite Databases in Pure Java

SQLJet is an independent pure Java open source implementation of the SQLite RDBMS core functionality. SQLJet provides API to create, read and modify SQLite...

5 replies - 2694 views - 09/16/09 by Alexander Kitaev in Articles

Improve Application Responsiveness With Terracotta for Hibernate

Terracotta released version 3.1 today, which includes Terracotta for Hibernate, a plug-in distributed cache for the Hibernate frame. Along with last months...

0 replies - 2436 views - 09/15/09 by James Sugrue in News

A Few Considerations While Selecting JSF-based AJAX Libraries

The demand for AJAX based web applications has been a trend for some time now. To support this trend there are bunch of options available in the market right...

8 replies - 2219 views - 09/15/09 by addy.bhardwaj in News

JPA Implementation Patterns: Mapping Inheritance Hierarchies

This week I will dwell on the choices offered when mapping inheritance hierarchies in JPA. JPA provides three ways to map Java inheritance hierarchies to...

1 replies - 2673 views - 09/15/09 by vpartington in Articles

Complete Your Eclipse Refcard Collection

Today DZone have released the latest Eclipse-based Refcard, this time covering the topic of Eclipse Plug-in Development.

0 replies - 5737 views - 09/14/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Writing Comet Applications Using JRuby and the Atmosphere Framework

Writing Atmosphere's Comet based applications is simple. Imagine using JRuby instead of Java...it becomes really simple!. As with Scala, it is also possible to...

0 replies - 1235 views - 09/11/09 by Jean-Francois Arcand in Articles

JPA Implementation Patterns: Field Access vs. Property Access

I will continue the JPA implementation patterns series by discussing the relative merits of field access vs. property access. The JPA specification allows two...

9 replies - 3774 views - 09/09/09 by vpartington in Articles

A REST Project With Glassfish

I am working out a new pet project, an online system to support PUJ Competitions. It is still a work under progress and I plan to start to blog some technical...

5 replies - 2192 views - 09/07/09 by Felipe in Articles

Integrating BIRT With Wicket

In my previous article I setout a way we used to, at least partially, integrated BIRT into the Maven build process for a recent project. My next challenge on...

1 replies - 2382 views - 09/07/09 by mxc4 in Articles

Java collections – Are There Alternatives?

The built-in collections for Java have good performance and are nice to use – especially with the new for-loop pattern. But are there alternatives? And if...

20 replies - 6767 views - 09/04/09 by Peter Karich in Articles

How I Lost My Annotations: JPA, Hibernate and FetchType.LAZY

Many JPA applications use Java annotations on their domain model classes in order to specify validation rules. Runtime frameworks use reflection to discover...

3 replies - 3255 views - 09/04/09 by David Green in Articles

Interview: Stefan Schmidt on Spring Roo

The Strange Loop conference is a unique software developer conference in St. Louis featuring excellent speakers and a wide variety of languages and...

0 replies - 2375 views - 09/03/09 by Alex Miller in News

Book Giveaway: Dependency Injection Exclusive Chapter Download

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Dependency Injection' (by Dhanji R. Prasanna). This chapter covers...

9 replies - 3871 views - 08/28/09 by lyndsey in Articles

My Experience With Java REST Frameworks (Specifically Jersey and CXF)

Recently I was tasked with developing a server-side REST strategy for a client. When I started working with them, they were using GWT RPC for exposing...

3 replies - 3889 views - 08/28/09 by Matt Raible in Articles