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Cloud management tool LASIC 0.2 released

A public release of LASIC is now available.  LASIC is a language that facilitates automated creation, management and termination of systems in a cloud...

0 replies - 1271 views - 01/11/11 by Brian Pugh in Announcements

Daily Dose - A Sweet "Honeycomb" Preview

In conjunction with this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google has published the first official details on Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" (yes, 3.0...

0 replies - 22139 views - 01/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Categorization and Comparison of Popular Web Frameworks in the Java / JVM Environment

The following article shows a categorization of Java / JVM web-frameworks, considering different types of web applications. The intention is to give an...

12 replies - 24868 views - 12/31/10 by Kai Wähner in Articles

Will a Two Tier Market For Developers Emerge As a Result of Scala & Clojure?

Two years after my initial encounter with Scala, I’m just now starting to delve deeper into the functional aspects of Scala and the type system of the...

18 replies - 10268 views - 12/20/10 by Wille Faler in News

Daily Dose - Scala 2.8.1 Release Goes Final

The first update to Scala's 2.8.x line is now generally available with a large number of bugfixes and several improvements.  The Scaladoc tool has seen the...

0 replies - 19663 views - 11/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Specification Pattern by Scala

 Specification pattern is simple and clean solution to implement your business rules.  This pattern is mixture between composite and factory Gof patterns...

1 replies - 5361 views - 11/03/10 by Slim Ouertani in Tips and Tricks

Daily Dose - Lift Raised to the Next Level

The Scala-based web framework, Lift, has reached version 2.1 with a few new features to add to the large list from 2.0.  The support is now tighter for the...

0 replies - 16562 views - 09/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Uniscala Granite: A Wicket/db4o/Scala Web Stack

Interested members of the Scala community are apparently knocking down Sustainable Software Pty's door to find out about their new innovative web framework,...

0 replies - 5568 views - 09/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - Juicy Details About Scala 2.9

It seems that the Scala community is perfectly willing to convert their projects to the new 2.8 binaries (Scala 2.8, released last month, was not binary...

11 replies - 23723 views - 08/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Deploying a Scala Lift Application in an OSGi Container

My current project involves building a Lift web application and deploying it in our OSGi application container.  I've been working with Scala on and off for...

0 replies - 6307 views - 08/09/10 by Eric Daugherty 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...

4 replies - 4731 views - 08/05/10 by Cedric Beust in News

Recursive Snippet Processing with Lift

I really like how Lift's 'template' engine works.  In short, you define XML tags that map to a Class and Method for execution.  For instance, a basic...

0 replies - 4878 views - 07/23/10 by Eric Daugherty in News

Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 Blasts Off

Stick a fork in it - Scala 2.8 is done.  The GA release hit this morning with sweeping changes that include a revamped collection library, named and default...

0 replies - 13072 views - 07/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Decisions, Decisions… Figuring Out Which JavaOne Sessions to Attend

Ok, now I really want to go to JavaOne.  I just found Oracle's new Content Catalog, which indexes all of the JavaOne, Oracle Develop, and Open World sessions...

0 replies - 6886 views - 07/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Applying Scala to solving real world problems: Making delegation super easy

In Java it is very common to write boring code like below to perform logging:public class Foo { private static Logger logger =...

13 replies - 6304 views - 06/15/10 by kent tong in News