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Mitch Pronschinske05/25/10
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Ehcache 2.1 Gets Support for All Hibernate Strategies

It's been one month since Terracotta announced the Ehcache 2.1 beta, and now the GA release is here. The open source company's release schedule has been 'pedal to the metal' since the Ehcache and Quartz acquisitions late last year. Today's release...

Eric Hagan05/25/10
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Advanced Debugging Tips and Tricks

Most developers define debugging as an 'after the fact' solution for finding bugs after they've already caused problems. Bilal Soylu's definition includes...

James Sugrue05/25/10
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DZone Refcardz: There Will Be An App For That

Ever since I got an iPhone, I've thought that our Refcardz would form the basis for a really useful app. So, over the past few months, I've been working on a project to write such an app. Our original plan was to have this ready for you this, to coincide with...

Masoud Kalali05/25/10
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Introducing OpenESB From Development to Administration and Management

The OpenESB project was initiated by Sun Microsystems to develop and deliver a high performance, and feature rich implementation of Java Business Integration (JBI) under an open source friendly license. Basic task of JBI implementations is connecting...

Nicolas Frankel05/25/10
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CDI - An Overview: Part 1

I may be a Spring fanboy but I’m also convinced a technology should embrace standards. Although Spring is now a de facto standard, it is in competition with other products, like Google Guice for example. It makes my work as an architect harder since my...

Rickard Oberg05/25/10
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DCI is not MVC

The NetBeans project has produced a screencast about DCI and MVC, where DCI is "Data, Context, Interaction

Mitch Pronschinske05/24/10
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Couchio's Hosted CouchDB Service: Beta Preview Launched

A free beta preview is now open for Couchio's upcoming hosted CouchDB service. The program, which is limited to 200 seats, is open to both developers and users who just want to store personal data. DZone talked to Damien Katz, the creator of CouchDB and...

Jared Richardson05/24/10
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An Overview of Lean Software Practices

Tim Wingfield gave a talk last weekend about the seven pillars of lean software development. I was lucky enough to get a preview of the talk last week. Here's a recap of the presentation

Mitch Pronschinske05/24/10
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Google Summer of Code 2010: Let the Coding Begin!

Today, Students participating in Google's 2010 Summer of Code are beginning their 3-month journey in open source development. Organizations and students have already finished applying for mentorships and now, after proposals and roadmaps have been...

Daniel Rubio05/24/10
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The ABCs of JDBC, Part 3 - The JDBC API

In this week's installment of our JDBC FAQ series, we look at the progression of the JDBC API from version 2.0 through 4.0 and examine how to perform some common tasks such as inserting and deleting rows programmatically, inserting raw data (such as images)...

James Sugrue05/24/10
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100 DZone Refcardz And Counting...

Congratulations to DZone today, as we released the 100th Refcard. The series has gone from strength to strength and having seen some of the cards on the way over the next few months, shows no signs of slowing down. The most impressive things about the...

Lukasz Lenart05/23/10
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Are You Afraid : Knowing Your Frameworks Well

The last two weeks I've been simplifying an application flow engine based on Apache Struts 1 - I know it's an old technology but I don't care, I have a job to do ;-) Anyway I discovered a lot of strange use cases where some custom mechanism was built...

Vitaly Mikheev05/23/10
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Case Study: Switching JVMs May Help Reveal Issues in Multi-Threaded Apps

In one of my previous articles at Javalobby, I explained why an official JBoss AS release did not work on any JVM other than Sun(-Oracle) HotSpot. The root cause was (unintended) reliance on Java implementation features not enforced by the Java spec. This...

Mitch Pronschinske05/23/10
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Java EE Testing 'Gets Real'

Arquillian (pronounced ar-kill-e-an) is changing the way that testing is done in Java EE. Dan Allen, a Senior Software Engineer at JBoss, found that a lot of the complaints about Java EE claim that it's not testable. Although there have been a...

Jakub Holý05/23/10
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Injecting Better Logging Into a Binary .class Using Javassist

Have you ever been struck by a completely useless exception message somewhere from the depths of a 3rd party application or library you had to use in your code? Have you ever wanted the bloody nameless programmer to have written a truly informative and...