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Jakub Holý08/23/10
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My Path to SCEA 5

I’d like to share my experiences with the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (SCEA 5) certification. There was a couple of unclear things regarding the assignment and its deliverables and I’ve learned some...

Ryan Sukale08/23/10
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The Observer Pattern

In today's post, I am going to discuss about the observer pattern. This is one of the most widely used patterns in J2EE applications. I say this because of the inherent simplicity of this pattern and the the fact that it is highly possible that you are...

Mark Needham08/23/10
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Ultimate Configurability

In Continuous Delivery the authors talk about the danger of ultimate configurability… Configurable software is not always the cheaper solution it appears to be. It’s almost always better to focus on delivering the high-value functionality with little...

James Sugrue08/21/10
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One Keynote You Won't Want To Miss

Wondering about the state of Java since Oracle's lawsuit against Google? Want to see where Oracle are going to steer Java? Well, on Monday Sept 20th, you'll probably get a better idea when Larry Ellison takes to the JavaOne stage with his keynote about...

Matt Stine08/20/10
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Waste #1: Partially Done Work

Welcome to episode two of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste from our software development efforts. Waste elimination can be traced all the way back to the the...

Marco Casario08/20/10
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Flex Addon for Spring Roo

This Flex Addon is a serious plugin for who is using Spring Roo in enterprise enviroment.

James Lorenzen08/20/10
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Upgrading to Maven 3

I've been playing around with maven 3 lately on our legacy maven 2 multi-module project via mvnsh. Like advertised, maven 3 is backwards compatible with maven 2. In fact, most everything worked out of the box when switching to maven 3. In this post, I'm...

Peter ___08/20/10
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Twitter Search Jetwick – Powered by Wicket and Solr

Today we released Jetwick. With Jetwick I wanted to realize a service to find similar users on Twitter based on their tweeted content. Not based on the following-list like it is possible on other platforms:

Cedric Beust08/20/10
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Clojure, Concurrency and Silver Bullets

Rob Martin has become a fan of Clojure recently. Nothing wrong with that, Clojure has a lot going for it and if you’ve never had a chance to write code in Lisp, it’s probably the best way to begin these days. But then, Rob gets a little bit too...

Christoph Pater08/20/10
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Configure Domain Object Security (ACL) With Spring Security 3 and Oracle XE

I recently configured a domain object's security with Spring Security 3 and Oracle. Since I couldn't find much about that topic, I thought that I would share my solution. I assume that you are familiar with Spring and will not describe how to configure the...

Alex Collins08/19/10
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A Novel Approach to Load Testing with ExecutorService

Although 1.5's concurrency improvements have been around for yonks, they provide quite a handy means of parallel programming. A scenarioLet's say you have some web service that's exposed via an interface called 'UserStorageDAO'. A typical implementation of...

Mitch Pronschinske08/19/10
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OpenStack-ed

The OpenStack project has received an extraordinary amount of support from the developer community since its unveiling four weeks ago. The open source cloud platform has no performance blocks or any other artificial limitations that are sometimes...

Mitch Pronschinske08/19/10
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Illumos Changes From Spoon to Fork

Illumos, the project to make a fully open source version of Solaris, couldn't have arrived at a more perfect time. The Illumos project lead Garrett D'Amore, a former Oracle Solaris engineer and current Nexenta employee, is pretty certain that the leaked...

James Sugrue08/19/10
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What Makes You Passionate About Software Development?

A while back, I ran a poll here on JavaLobby to find out why people became software developers. The answers were varied, from computer science being a convenient choice, to money. But the most common themes were that developers "knew" that it was...

Suresh Murthy08/19/10
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Must Read Books For a Software Developer

Over a period of time I have managed to get my hands on some of the most wonderful books on software development. It gives me a great feeling to have read these books as they share the author's hard earned experience over several years. I feel that I am just...