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Progress Report from the Java EE Conference “Confess 2012″

This week, I was at Confess 2012 in Leogang, Salzburg (Austria). Confess is an international conference for Java professionals in its fifth year, organized...

0 replies - 1641 views - 05/14/12 by Kai Wähner in Articles

Functional Programming on the JVM

Introduction In recent times, many programming languages that run on JVM have emerged. Many of these languages support the concept of writing code in a...

0 replies - 10509 views - 05/14/12 by Gagan Agrawal in Articles

How fast are JVM-based languages growing among developers?

The Big Three - Scala, Clojure and Groovy. The following is an article written by TheCodeGeneral (not too sure who he is, but is quite respected in the...

0 replies - 8667 views - 05/14/12 by Judah Johns in Articles

Behold! A Solr Client for Scala

Scala users, check this out!  If you've been trying to have a better interface for using Apache Solr in your Scala projects, there's a pretty new simple Solr...

0 replies - 3813 views - 05/09/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Protect a REST service using HMAC (Play 2.0)

We have HTTPS, what more do we need? When you talk about security for REST based APIs, people often point to HTTPS. With HTTPS you can easily protect your...

0 replies - 5949 views - 05/07/12 by Jos Dirksen in Articles

Implicit Conversions in Scala

Following on from the previous post on operator overloading I'm going to be looking at Implicit Conversions, and how we can combine them to with...

1 replies - 2961 views - 04/27/12 by Tom Jefferys in Articles

"Operator Overloading" in Scala

So, I've been teaching myself Scala recently, and it's a very interesting language. One of the nice things I like about it, is it's support for creating...

3 replies - 3888 views - 04/26/12 by Tom Jefferys in Articles

JVM (and Ruby) Language Popularity - Google, Tiobe, SO, GitHub

Curator's Note:  For even more data on this JVM race, you can see the poll that was conducted in the Javalobby community, and the coder general blog, which...

3 replies - 6696 views - 03/13/12 by Felix Dahlke in Articles

15 Different Statsd Server Implementations

Statsd is a simple client/server mechanism from the folks at Etsy that allows operations and development teams to easily feed a variety of metrics into a...

2 replies - 9352 views - 02/28/12 by Joe Miller in Articles

Using MapReduce and Scaling to Analyze Movie Recommendations

The content of this article was written by Edwin Chen and can be found at his blog, linked here.This is going to be an in-your-face introduction to Scalding,...

0 replies - 4388 views - 02/28/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Scala: Converting a scala collection to java.util.List

I’ve been playing around a little with Goose – a library for extracting the main body of text from web pages – and I thought I’d try converting...

1 replies - 3553 views - 02/11/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Scala Dynamo - a Scala (and Java!) API for Amazon’s DynamoDB

Last week saw the announcement of Amazon Web Services NoSQL database as a service, Dynamo. Dynamo has a number of very interesting features, not least that...

0 replies - 6225 views - 01/26/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

Which Integration Framework Should You Use – Spring Integration, Mule ESB or Apache Camel?

Data exchanges between companies are increasing a lot. The number of applications that must be integrated is increasing, too. The interfaces use different...

0 replies - 16137 views - 01/19/12 by Kai Wähner in Articles

Implementing an async servlet in Scala with less than 10 lines of code

What is async servlet and why use it? An async servlet can tell the container that it will handle a request later, so that the current thread is not tied...

1 replies - 3198 views - 01/11/12 by kent tong in Articles

Scala for 2012? Deciding Whether to Invest In a Programming Language

I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly yearly basis. If forced to self-identify...

1 replies - 8023 views - 01/08/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles