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Len DiMaggio09/27/10
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Asserting Security - The JBossESB Integration with SAML in the JBoss SOA Platform

Introduction - When Two User Accounts is One Too Many

Shekhar Gulati09/27/10
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Spring 3 Makes Use of Embedded Databases Easy

One of the new features introduced in Spring 3 is the support for embedded Java database engines.

Mitch Pronschinske09/27/10
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JBoss AS 6 Releasing Early and Often

Another milestone of JBoss Application Server 6.0 is ready for download today in preparation for the candidate release, which is expected in mid-November, and the final, which JBoss hopes will be ready by year's end. The new release is milestone 5, which...

Vineet Manohar09/27/10
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Java Barcode API

Originally Barcodes were 1D representation of data using width and spacing of bars. Common bar code types are UPC barcodes which are seen on product packages. There are 2D barcodes as well (they are still called Barcodes even though they don’t use bars)....

Cedric Beust09/27/10
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A Better Data Binding Model

If you have ever implemented a user interface, you have more likely been confronted with the problem of data binding and notification: whenever a value in your model changes, how do you update your user interface to reflect the new values? In Java, the...

Mitch Pronschinske09/27/10
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Is the Lawsuit Against Android Affecting Developer Interest?

1,800 cross-platform mobile developers who use Appcelerator's Titanium utility said that they're not worried about Oracle's lawsuit against Android according to a survey taken two weeks ago. Scott Schwarzhoff, who was once an independent developer himself...

Peter Pilgrim09/26/10
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JavaOne 2010: Is The Glass Half Full?

Here follows my impression of this year's JavaOne 2010. It may appear controversial or very opinionated. First are the good impressions of the conference overall: Considering that around twelve months ago this we were all wondering whether there would be...

Baptiste Wicht09/26/10
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Swing Tip : A Better SwingWorker Without Exception Swallowing

When we develop Swing applications, SwingWorker are very helpful. But there is a big disadvantage using this class. if you don’t call get() in the done method, you will lose all the exceptions that the computation in the doInBackground() has thrown. And...

Alex Tkachman09/25/10
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Call for concurrency benchmarks of JVM languages

We live in the era of polyglot programming on JVM. For good (as I believe) or for bad we have now many really nice languages to write for JVM. Clojure, Groovy/Groovy++, JRuby/Mirah, Jython, Scala - just to mention most popular ones in lexicographical order....

Geertjan Wielenga09/24/10
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Hello World Maven on the NetBeans RCP

Let's use Maven to create a simple NetBeans RCP application. We'll create a new application, add a module, and add an Action to it. In the process, you'll learn all the basic things needed to set up Maven applications on the NetBeans RCP.Do the following:

Ian Skerrett09/24/10
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The New JavaOne; The New Java Community

The first JavaOne, organized by Oracle is now finished. This was definitely a JavaOne very different from those of the past. In fact, I think it is symbolic of how Oracle will operate the Java community moving forward. Some observations from the new...

Suresh Murthy09/24/10
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A Consistent Way of Doing Null Checks and Empty Checks on Objects

I have always found null checks and checks for "empty" values (mostly applicable for collections or maps) spread all throughout the code base. Hence I found a neat and elegant way to handle this by providing a utility class that contains the...

Alex Collins09/24/10
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Maven Love and Hate

You get away from the large, complex build.xml scenario when you move from Ant to Maven, but depending on the software you're writing, you don't save on verbosity! Right?I'm a big fan of Maven, and I'm excited about Maven 3. To be fair I've not been using it...

Steven Lott09/24/10
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Comments, Assertions and Unit Tests

See "Commenting the Code". This posting tickled my fancy because it addressed the central issue of "what requires comments outside Python docstrings". All functions, classes, modules and packages require docstrings. That's clear. ...

Peter Pilgrim09/24/10
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JavaOne 2010 Part 2: Whatever Happened To Christopher Oliver, Inventor of JavaFX Script?

Whatever happened to Christopher Oliver? What would he say now about the state of the affairs in JavaFX development? I wonder whether if he would be pleased or disappointed with the fact that Oliver are deprecating support for JavaFX Script in JavaFX 2.0....