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James Sugrue05/26/09
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Maven Refcard Released: Meet The Author

DZone released the Maven Refcard yesterday helping you get started with one of the most popular tools among Java developers. I met the author, Matthew McCullough, to find out more about Maven, and how it's more than just a competitor to Ant.

Greg Wilkins05/26/09
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Roadmap for Jetty-6, Jetty-7 and Jetty-8

This blog updates the roadmap for jetty-6, jetty-7 and jetty-8 with the latest plans resulting from the move to the Eclipse Foundation and the delay in the servlet-3.0 specification. Previously it was intended that jetty-7 was going to be servlet-3.0, but...

Geertjan Wielenga05/25/09
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JavaOne 2009 Book Signing Schedule

If you're going to San Francisco... be sure to get your new books signed while there! Every year, one of the recurring highlights of JavaOne is the release of new books. Covering the full range of hot topics presented at the conference, these books are...

Anthony Goubard05/25/09
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Groovy in One Day

After JavaFX, now let's have a look at Groovy. Note that I already had a quick look at it when 1.0 has been released and I wrote one of the XINS Web Services demo using Groovy.

Peter ___05/25/09
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Code Quality Tools in Java

There are several tools to measure the code quality. The ones I have tried with a lot of success are:

Jose Noheda05/25/09
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Web Framework Comparison - Prototyping

Some may say I have a biased opinion on the topic at hand. True. I hereby declare that I have a clear preference for dojo+DWR+Spring MVC. But I happen to have a cruel client as well and when they asked me to prepare a comparison between several modern web...

Per Siko05/24/09
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What you can do with Swing in your spare time

This story begins in 2008, when we, Pär Sikö and Martin Gunnarsson, decided to try to get a presentation into Øredev. We had held a presentation covering the basics of Swing and Java2D at a local JUG meeting, but to present at a big conference, we needed a...

Mikael Grev05/24/09
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Why the Java Store has Gotten a Luke Warm Reception

Jonathan Schwartz recently blogged about it and it didn't take, not too much any way. Why?I am very excited about the Java App Store, really really excited actually. But I understand why many aren't. Sun hasn't got a very good track record when it comes to...

John Ferguson Smart05/22/09
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Case study: CI, Branching and Release Strategy For a Medium-Size Project

Someone recently asked me about how I organised releases in our Subversion repository. So I decided to write up the response as a blog entry. This article describes how we have set up Continuous Integration and release management for a medium size web...

Jean-Francois Arcand05/22/09
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Writing a REST Application With Comet Support: Getting Started With the Atmosphere Framework

This time I will demonstrate how easy and dead simple is to write a REST application using Atmosphere annotations…with the help of Jersey!

Greg Wilkins05/21/09
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Servlet 3.0 Proposed "Final" Draft

In my December 2008 blog, I strongly criticised the Servlet 3.0 JSR-315 process and the resulting Public Review Draft, describing it as a: "poor document and the product of a discordant expert group (EG) working within a flawed process" and of...

James Sugrue05/21/09
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Critical Java Vulnerability for Mac OS X Users

Intego Security has reported a critical flaw in the version of Java shipped with Mac OSX. The flaw allows local code on the user's Mac to be executed remotely, typically from malicious applets.

Gerard COLLIN05/21/09
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Will Cloud Computing Solve the Bad Relationship Between Java and ISPs?

Both the Java language and JEE have always been far behind PHP when it comes to hosting services and ISPs. For example, in France, Free and SFR Neuf offer up to 1Gb hard drive and a MySql database for everyone to create their websites in PHP. For 60€ /...

Andy Jefferson05/21/09
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What's New in JDO 2.3

Java Data Objects (JDO) is a specification for Java persistence that started in 2000, with 2 major releases JDO1 (2002 under JSR0012) and JDO2 (2006 under JSR0243). It was placed under Apache in 2005 and is the rare example of a specification that has...

Anthony Goubard05/21/09
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JavaFX in One Day

As written in my last blog, I've decided to look at other languages. Let's start with JavaFX. I like developing user interfaces and I've already spent half a day learning it during an event organized by the nljug (Dutch Java User Group) more than 1 year ago.