James Sugrue01/25/10
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Continuous Integration Refcard Released: Meet The Author

This weeks refcard covers Continuous Integration: Patterns and Anti-Patterns with tips on how to get started using continuous integration techniques in your project. I spoke with Paul Duvall, author of the refcard and CI expert about the benefits of...

Hamlet D'Arcy01/25/10
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Sharing IntelliJ IDEA Project Files in Version Control

There are quite a few benefits to having IDE project files properly stored under version control:

Nicolas Frankel01/25/10
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Typology of Rich Client Technologies

Chances are, if you are an software architect and need to make applications available over the network, you are asking yourself what client technology to use. In this article, I will try to list the solutions used previously and then elaborate on the...

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/10
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Jenabean: Bridging the Gap Between Java Objects and the Semantic Web

Skeptics have said that the semantic web would be too difficult for people to understand or exploit, but in the last few years, the number of enabling technologies for the semantic web has grown significantly. The W3C has drafted standards like RDF...

Peter ___01/24/10
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Test-Driven Teaching – User Interface & More Game Features

This post belongs to some previous posts of this tutorial about "test-driven teaching": 0. Overview article1. Hello World 2. Initial Box Game

Scott Lewis01/23/10
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SOAP, REST, and ECF Remote Services

In addition to supporting the OSGi 4.2 remote services specification, we on the ECF team have also been working on support for accessing REST-style services, as well as those that use the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

Dave Booth01/23/10
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Reloading Java Classes: Classloaders in Web Development — Tomcat, GlassFish, OSGi, Tapestry 5

In this article we’ll review how dynamic classloaders are used in real servers, containers and frameworks to reload Java classes and applications. We’ll also touch on how to get faster reloads and redeploys by using them in optimal ways.

Binod Pg01/22/10
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SailFin CAFE Fundamentals: CommunicationBeans and Agents

SIP Servlets provide a server side Java abstraction to SIP protocol and it is based on familiar servlet model. This enables an application developer to use Java servlet programming to write Converged applications. What exactly is the meaning of...

Nicolas Frankel01/22/10
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My First Try at Flex

Flex is now approaching its 4th version. Even since its start, it looked promising. Until some time ago, I didn’t look much into it for it was not Open enough. Two years ago, in order to use Flex application freely, you had to limit yourself to a little...

Debasish Ghosh01/22/10
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A New Way to Think of Data Storage for Your Enterprise Application

A couple of posts earlier I had blogged about a real life case study of one of our projects where we are using a SQL store (Oracle) and a NoSQL store (MongoDB) in combination over a message based backbone. MongoDB was used to cater to a very specific subset...

Mitch Pronschinske01/21/10
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EU Gives Larry the Go Ahead

Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems received the seal of approval from the European Commission this week following Oracle CEO Larry Elllison's diplomatic efforts in December.

James Sugrue01/21/10
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Maintaining Your Value In the Software Industry

These days it can be tough to find the job you want as a software developer, either because the lack of opportunities out there, or facing huge competition in the process. In this article, I'd like to offer some tips that might help you to maintain your...

Peter ___01/21/10
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CRUD With Wicket + Guice + Db4o / NeoDatis

The journey began with a search for a database for my desktop application TimeFinder. It turned out that there are at least 3 candidates if I would choose a simple and only one tier architecture:

Stuart Mcculloch01/21/10
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From Plexus to Guice: The Guice/Plexus Bridge and Custom Bean Injection

In the next few articles of the “Plexus to Guice” series I will look at the modular design of our replacement Plexus container and show how you can configure a POB (Plain Old Bean) from Guice with a simple code example. In the first article of this...

Victor Tsoukanov01/21/10
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GWT Development With IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

As you know recently JetBrains released open source version of IntelliJ IDEA. If you look at comparison matrix it is shipped with a small number of core plugins such as Ant/Maven integration, supports several CVSs such as Subversion, Git and CVS. But event...