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Dan Dyer07/19/10
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Android Adventures

Late to get involved as ever, I’ve been developing with Android for the last couple of weeks. On the whole it has been a positive experience (thanks to Richard for pointing me in the right direction with my queries).

Nick Wiedenbrueck07/19/10
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Lambdas in Java Preview - Part 2: Functional Java

This is the second part in a series of blog posts (read part I) giving some practical examples of lambdas, how functional programming in Java could look like and how lambdas could affect some of the well known libraries in Java land. This part focusses on...

Mitch Pronschinske07/18/10
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Andres Almiray on Griffon: The Road Behind and the Road Ahead

DZone is celebrating the success of the Griffon framework as it nears its fifth major release, and there's no better way to celebrate than with our newest Refcard, Getting Started with Griffon! DZone took some time to reflect on Griffon's history and...

Robert Piesnikowski07/18/10
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NetBeans IDE 6.9: Java with Microsoft SQL 2005

As far as developers can choose (or have it chosen for them) their software, they've had various scenarios to work with. Mostly companies use C# with MSSQL or Java with Oracle. Today I will show a slightly mixed scenario where the developer uses Java as the...

Nick Wiedenbrueck07/18/10
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Lambdas in Java Preview - Part 1: The Basics

As announced at Devoxx last year, closures (or better lambda expressions) will (probably) be added to JDK7. The team of project lambda has checked in initial parts of the implementation into the OpenJDK repositories.

Andrew Phillips07/17/10
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Customize This: Tailoring Deployment Packages to Your Target Environments

Sometime in the bright future, you will be able to deploy the same virtual appliance containing your application to all your target environments without adjustments.

Gurkan Erdogdu07/16/10
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Writing Collapsed EAR and CDI Applications With SIwpas

SIwpas, Simple Web Profile Application Server is a Java EE Web Profile compatible server that contains the Apache Software Foundation projects. SIwpas aim is to integrate Apache Software Foundation(ASF) JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Web...

Peter Pilgrim07/16/10
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Stephen Chin's Petition to Open Source JavaFX

Fellow Java Champion, Stephen Chin has created a petition to open source JavaFX technology and the platform. Yours truly has already signed it and commented thereabouts. I have copied my original commentary here. From...

David Green07/16/10
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Patterns For Better Unit Testing With JPA

Over the years I’ve run across many projects, which tend to fall into one of two categories: those projects that have great confidence, energy and momentum, running hundreds (or thousands) of unit tests dozens of times every day; and those projects where...

Mitch Pronschinske07/15/10
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The Kiwis Reject Software Patents

In New Zealand, a major battle is almost won for those who want to see an end to software patenting. Today the NZ Commerce Minister Simon Power announced that the Patents Bill in Parliament would not be modified despite lobbying efforts from the pro-patent...

Arbi Sookazian07/15/10
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iReport 3.7

This book shows you how to develop a simple report, reports with charts, and summary reports in iReport. It is a good introduction if you are new to iReport or if you are a business intelligence...

Mitch Pronschinske07/15/10
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Adobe First to Use SourceForge's New Platform

SourceForge has just unveiled their all-new forge development platform, SourceForge 2.0, and the first organization to open a forge on it was Adobe. The new forge, now in open beta, showcases the extended flexibility and collaboration facilities of...

Giorgio Sironi07/15/10
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The absolute minimum you'll ever have to know about session persistence on the web

What is the definition of session persistence? For instance, it means recognizing an user as the same one that has compiled a login form before. Technically speaking, it means identify a client in between different HTTP requests.

James Sugrue07/15/10
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How Can Oracle Make JavaFX More Popular?

In JavaFX is a Train Wreck, Kirill Grouchnikov asks why he has yet to see a good looking JavaFX application. I always expected JavaFX to be more popular than it turned out to be, especially when the Java Store was...

Gurkan Erdogdu07/15/10
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Getting Started With Defne Web Framework and Apache OpenWebBeans

Defne is a service oriented web application framework. The main motivation behind Defne is ease of use. Defne allows developers to concentrate on their business logic while it provides all other application requirements such as transaction and security. With...