Mohammad Juma05/06/10
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JSF 2.0 Ajax For Beginners

This tutorial is for people who want to get a quick start with JSF2.0 AJAX1) Open Eclipse and create a new web project. 2) Put jsf-api.jar, jsf-imp.jar under the WEB-INF\lib folder. 3)Create juma.mohammad.MainBean class

Byron M05/06/10
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Add Comments and Javadocs in Eclipse With a Single Keystroke

When you want to work with comments in Eclipse, you could use the slow way of moving to the start of the line, pressing // and then repeating this for all the lines you have. Or you could use the quick way of adding a comment with a single keystroke no...

Mitch Pronschinske05/05/10
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A Few Reasons to Switch to PostgreSQL 9.0

PostgreSQL is widely considered to be the main open source competitor to MySQL. It's been five years since the release of PostgreSQL 8.0, but this week, PostgreSQL developers showed that their project has evolved significantly in that time. The beta...

Mitch Pronschinske05/05/10
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Jclouds Gets Friendly With Clojure

jclouds 1.0 beta 5 is out now with various new features including support for Clojure. Along with some new features for cloud provisioning, the fifth beta also includes a polished ComputeService API, location compatibility across ComputeService and...

Eric Hagan05/05/10
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SlickEdit: More Than Just An Editor (Video)

Scott Westfall is the VP of software development for the SlickEdit tool. He says that SlickEdit's President/CEO is also their CTO and the head developer on the...

James Sugrue05/05/10
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Spoilt For Choice: How You Voted in the XML Library Poll

Last week I put together a poll to find out what people use to handle XML in their Java applications these days. Thanks to the participation of those who voted and left comments, I got a good picture of what libraries and techniques people are utilizing to...

Jared Richardson05/05/10
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Managers As Cheerleaders, or Why Charts Matter

Most developers think that graphs and charts are for weak-minded managers who like pretty colors. And they couldn't be more wrong. The problem is actually the arrogance of many developers.

Tiensoon Law05/05/10
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Prototyping a Workflow-Driven Application in a Day – Part 4

Upon completing the third part of this tutorial, you would have designed and deployed a leave application process, as well as having the workflow participants and activities mapped accordingly, using Joget Workflow. Now, it's time to run the process, and see...

Ian Skerrett05/05/10
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NetBeans and IntelliJ Now Supporting OSGi

A good sign of a healthy ecosystem is the emergence of competing solutions. Eclipse has long provided tooling support for OSGi. Now it seems NetBeans and IntelliJ are ready to provide OSGi support. The upcoming NetBeans 6.9 release features support...

Solomon Duskis05/05/10
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The "Quick No" in Tech Screening

The goal of a phone screen is to get to a quick "no." That require a deep understanding of the types of what makes a successful developer (or really any other profession) in your environment. In our case, we look for passionate programmers who are...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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Grails With Terracotta: A Few Lines of Config

Dave Klein, the author of "Grails: A Quick-Start Guide" and Mike Allen, the Terracotta Product Manager, recently presented a seminar entitled "Clustering and Scaling Grails Apps: A Simple Approach." Using an example application from...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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KDevelop 4.0: A C++ Focused IDE

The KDevelop open source IDE for the KDE desktop environment has reached version 4.0 after five years of development. The developers decided to focus on making KDevelop a solid C++ IDE for this release instead of adding half-supported features for some of...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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Mahout, HBase Among Six Apache Graduates

Today the Apache Software Foundation graduated five sub-projects and one incubator project en masse to Top-Level Projects. Mahout, Nutch, Tika, Avro, and HBase were the five graduated sub-projects, and the recently donated Apache Traffic Server was promoted...

Arbi Sookazian05/04/10
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Review - JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference

JavaServer Faces (henceforth, JSF), is a key technology in the Java EE 5/6 platform. It is a component-based MVC presentation layer framework that is very popular now in the Java community. JSF...

Manik Surtani05/04/10
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Infinispan for the Power-user: Event Notifications

Welcome to the third part of this deep-dive series of articles on Infinispan. In this article I'd like to talk about Infinispan's event notification system. This mechanism allows you to register listeners on Infinispan and receive notifications when...