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Rickard Oberg07/05/10
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Using Systems Thinking to Improve Service Performance

Since I've been studying and applying Systems Thinking for some time now, my wife recently asked if I could help her improve the performance of the services provided by her firm. She works as a partner in a law firm, and the bulk of the work relates to Sales...

Baptiste Wicht07/05/10
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Asynchronous Message Passing in JR

We’ve now covered the basic synchronization systems (semaphore, monitors) and we know how to declare operations and capabilities . It’s time to go to an other form of synchronization :Message Passing.

Ola Bini07/03/10
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Some Results From the Ioke experiment

It’s been a bit over 18 months since I first released Ioke in the wild. During this time I’ve always been specific about Ioke first and foremost being a language experiment. I changed many things to see what would work and what would not. I thought I’d...

Mitch Pronschinske07/02/10
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A Fresh New Jersey

Version 1.3 of Jersey, the reference implementation for JAX-RS, is out today. This Oracle RI facilitates the generation of RESTful web services for technologies like Teracotta's Ehcache Server, GlassFish v3, and Apache Camel. Jersey 1.3 implements the...

Nitin Bharti07/02/10
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Video: The Pair Programming Show

Did you try pair programming but it didn't work? Are you wondering if it's worth it? Then, this play is for you.In this live play, recorded at Øredev...

Mitch Pronschinske07/02/10
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CI, Testing, and Build Management in the Cloud

Cloud-based development tools - we're seeing more and more of them. MuleSoft recently released a cloud-ready offering of Tomcat, JetBrains and Electric Cloud are now providing distributed build management running on the cloud, and Sauce Labs is enabling...

James Sugrue07/02/10
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Another Chance To Win a TShirt: What Are The Major Milestones in Java Persistence?

Yesterday I asked who were your choices as the heroes of Java persistence. Today I have a similar question to ask: what have the key milestones been in the history of Java persistence. For me the most important milestones are:

Steven Lott07/02/10
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Finding Simplicity

In Creating Complexity Where None Existed, I noted that it's possible to create complexity out of thin air. Indeed, by wallowing in the supposed drama, one can turn the differences between sales and service delivery into a hopelessly complex situation. A...

Loiane Groner07/02/10
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The Big Website Merge: java.sun.com, developers.sun.com, BigAdmin, and OTN

This is the email Oracle sent to JUG Leaders mailing-list: JUG Leaders, Java Champions:

Mitch Pronschinske07/01/10
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Android 3.0 to be a High-Performance Version?

It seems that the plans for Android 3.0 (aka.

Eric Hagan07/01/10
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Video: The Unique Development Processes of Relevance

Relevance does agile consulting with their own unique process which mixes and matches many agile methodologies. Their standard workflow involves 2-week...

Ayende Rahien07/01/10
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NoSQL and Data Warehousing

I recently got this question on email, and I thought it would be a good subject for a post. I wanted to get your thoughts about using NoSQL for data warehouse solutions. I have read mixed thoughts about this and curious where you stand. Before we...

Giorgio Sironi07/01/10
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Web MVC in Java (without frameworks)

The Model-View-Controller architectural pattern is a classic trait of Java applications. For example, Swing is a well-known implementation of this pattern in the context of desktop applications.MVC is part of the oldies but goodies group of patterns: since...

James Sugrue07/01/10
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Win a Free T-shirt: Who Are The Heroes of Java Data Persistence?

When Java started out, one of the big features that it offered was JDBC, providing a database independent way for Java developers to use relational databases. We've moved on a lot since then with the Java Persistence API (JPA), Hibernate and embedded...

Baptiste Wicht07/01/10
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JR Operations and Capabilities

Now that we’ve seen how to use semaphores and monitors in JR, we must go to message passing. But first, we must learn how to use operations and capabilities in JR. These concepts are used in JR for message passing, so we must learn them first.