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Vineet Manohar07/15/10
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How to Pass Parameters in EL Methods

This article describes how to pass any number of parameters in EL functions in 3 simple steps. Step 1: Extend the class ELMethod Extend the class ELMethod.java, and implement the following method:

Baptiste Wicht07/15/10
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State of the Lambda

Brian Goetz, from Oracle, has posted an updated proposal for the lambda expressions : State of the Lambda Here are some examples of closures taken from the proposal :We can use lambda expressions to replace the heavy usage of Single Abstract Method (SAM)...

Mitch Pronschinske07/14/10
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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 for you to search - essentially making our acceptance-day list on DZone obsolete (but not in vain! ...

Alex Crafts07/14/10
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Check Your JMeter - Now Version 2.4

Today the Apache Jakarta subproject JMeter is releasing the next version of its pure Java desktop app, JMeter, which is designed to load test functional behavior and gauge performance. Features of the newly released JMeter 2.4 include JUnit 4 annotation...

Mitch Pronschinske07/14/10
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Apache Unveils a Polished CouchDB 1.0

Today Couchio, the corporate backer of the Apache CouchDB project, is heralding the momentous release of CouchDB 1.0. If you don't know already, CouchDB creator and Couchio CEO Damien Katz will tell you that millions of people already rely on CouchDB for...

Ricky Ho07/14/10
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Google Pregel Graph Processing

A lot of real life problems can be expressed in terms of entities related to each other and best captured using graphical models. Well defined graph theory can be applied to processing the graph and return interesting results. The general processing...

James Sugrue07/14/10
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Reduce Workspace Noise in Eclipse Using Working Sets

Last week I wrote a few articles on how Eclipse can assist when working in team environments. Today, I have another Eclipse related tip - this time to do with how you organise your local workspace. Developers will typically have a number of projects in their...

Baptiste Wicht07/14/10
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Rendezvous: Concurrency Method in JR

In this post, we’ll see a new feature of JR : the rendezvous.Like asynchronous message passing, this synchronization method involves two processes : a caller and a receiver. But this time, the invocation is synchronous, the caller delays until the operation...

Peter ___07/14/10
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Not A Java Web Frameworks Survey: Just use Wicket!

‘Java Web Frameworks Survey’ was my first blog posted which was reposted at dzone. Sadly there never was a follow up of it. Although I planned followups with jZeno, SpringMVC, Seam, Vaadin (at that time: IT-Mill Toolkit), MyFaces, Stripes, Struts,...

Nicolas Frankel07/14/10
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Further into CDI

In one of my latest articles on CDI, one of the lessons I learned was to use factory methods in order to reduce the number of classes. In this article, I will go into the detail since I think it is of some importance.

Mitch Pronschinske07/13/10
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How Do Developers Feel About Java and MySQL 6 Months After the Sun Acquisition?

Overall, there seems to be only a slight amount of confidence in Oracle's stewardship of its recently inherited open source technologies like Java and MySQL. That's my interpretation of Jaspersoft's survey of its open source registrants, which was announced...

Mitch Pronschinske07/13/10
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OpenSolaris Governing Board Issues Ultimatum to Oracle -- Update

Update: At the bottom of this page you will find commentary on these events from Nexenta CEO Evan Powell. Nexenta is invested in the future of OpenSolaris with its NexentaCore platform, which utilizes the OpenSolaris kernel along with ZFS and core Solaris.

Lyndsey Clevesy07/13/10
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ColdFusion Builder Tour

Adam Lehman is the ColdFusion Product Manager at Adobe. Today CF has a growing community of over 800k developers and is being touted as a productivity tool...

James Sugrue07/13/10
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Introducing Chronon: The Time Travelling Debugger for Java

Last week I read an announcement about Chronon, a time travelling debugger. It sounds very appealling - if you're like me, you've often missed that spot where you should have had a breakpoint. Another common issue is reproducing bugs that happened out in the...

Mitch Pronschinske07/13/10
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Tomcat 7 Beta Already Works on Tcat Server

Just two weeks after the first beta release of Apache Tomcat 7, MuleSoft has already designed today's latest release of the Tcat Server (6.0 R3) to run Tomcat 7 instances. This latest release is also more deeply integrated with Windows services. Other new...