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Ryan De Laplante10/18/10
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Java's Biggest Threat is Microsoft

I've never been one to believe that languages like Ruby, Groovy or Scala are going to be a threat to Java the language and platform. I think the real threat is the .NET platform.

Mitch Pronschinske10/17/10
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For Hibernate Developers, It's Time to Learn Gradle

The Hibernate team made it official when they recently switched the Hibernate 4 master branch on GitHub over to Gradle for its builds. Now is as good a time as any to learn how the Gradle build system works in comparison to Hibernate's earlier build system,...

Jean-Francois Arcand10/17/10
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Real Time Twitter Search via Websocket or Comet

Currently Twitter supports a streaming API described as follows: "The Twitter Streaming API allows high-throughput near-realtime access to various subsets of public and protected Twitter data."

Alexander Radzin10/16/10
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Enum Tricks: Customized valueOf

When I am writing enumerations I very often found myself implementing a static method similar to the standard enum’s valueOf() but based on field rather than name:

Matt Stine10/15/10
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On Gaelyks and Golden Hammers

I had a break in my personal speaking schedule today at NFJS in Minneapolis, MN, and I decided to attend Tim Berglund's talk on Gaelyk. Gaelyk is an extremely lightweight Groovy framework for Google App Engine (GAE). During his talk, Tim asserted that Gaelyk...

Kien Nguyen10/15/10
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Portlets in Action Book Review

Portal is a concept, a technology that is not new to those who are developing portal applications. Nobody can deny its usefulness for...

Manuel Jordan10/15/10
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Using JasperServer Enterprise Edition: My Experiences

It has been a while since I posted Experience: JasperServer Enterprise Edition Version 3.7.0.1. – Part 01, here we move forward with the second and final part. Here we'll cover: IReport Profesional Edition 3.7.0 JasperAnalysis 3.7 Please be aware...

Anil Saldhana10/15/10
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Security with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is the official supported product from Red Hat Inc based on the popular open source JBoss Application Server (AS). It incorporates all the features of the community release as well additional features required for...

Shekhar Gulati10/15/10
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Reduce Boilerplate Code for DAO's -- Hades Introduction

Most web applications will have DAO's for accessing the database layer. A DAO provides an interface for some type of database or persistence mechanism, providing CRUD and finders operations without exposing any database details. So, in your application you...

Ratna Dinakar T...10/15/10
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Simple Hack Alternative to URL Redirect for Struts Actions or Similar Frameworks

Recently as a requirement I had to work on a URL Redirect for loading a particular Action as entry point. As the usual procedure we choose one of the following methods to proceed with

Yongjun Jiao10/15/10
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Asynchronous (non-blocking) Execution in JDBC, Hibernate or Spring?

There is no so-called asynchronous execution support in JDBC mainly because most of the time you want to wait for the result of your DML or DDL, or because there is too much complexity involved between the back-end database and the front end JDBC driver. ...

Baptiste Wicht10/15/10
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Compute Command-line Arguments With Apache Commons CLI

For a project at school, I needed to refactor some old code which parsed almost 30 command line arguments. I needed to add some more arguments and change some old args, but the old code was not maintainable at all. So I decided to use a library that would...

Alex Collins10/15/10
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Oracle goes postal and the rest just carry on

Unless you've been living under a rock the past few weeks, you'll no doubt be aware of the moves Oracle have made. As a developer though, do you think it's done much to harm A) the industry you work in, B) your job prospects and C) the future of the language?...

Mitch Pronschinske10/14/10
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Hibernate Core 3.6 Goes GA - Now on GitHub

JBoss is now finished with Hibernate Core 3.6.0, which was developed in parallel with the 3.5.6 maintenance release. Hibernate 3.5.6 went final in September while 3.6 was in the release candidate stage. The 3.6 version represents a transition for...

Joshua Noble10/14/10
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Validators and Formatters in Flex 4

In Flex both validation and formatting are, at their root, a combination of string manipulation and visual feedback for that manipulation. It’s simply a matter of parsing strings to detect a certain pattern and then altering that string to fit a certain...