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James Sugrue04/27/09
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JavaFX: I'm Starting To Believe

It always takes some time for new technologies to prove themselves, and JavaFX is no different. It still gets more than it's fair share of bad press, but as more examples using JavaFX appear, I'm starting to believe that it has it's place for Java developers....

Fabrizio Giudici04/27/09
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Which Logging Facility for Swing Applications?

Crossing fingers, after a long peak of other things to do, I should be able to resume writing articles with technical content. In the meantime, I'd like to discuss one of the first issues that people started filing against BetterBeansBinding: to use a logging...

Neil Griffin04/24/09
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Making Distinctions Between Different Kinds of JSF Managed-Beans

JSF has a simple Inversion-of-Control (IoC) container called the JSF Managed Bean Facility (MBF).

James Sugrue04/24/09
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Top 10 Java Twitterers

Twitter has become a fantastic tool for me to keep up with what's going around in the Java and Eclipse communities. This is all down to following the right people. Here I'd like to share my list of the top 10 twitterers with you. Follow The DZone...

Peter Friese04/24/09
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Getting Started With WikiText

Documentation is the bane of all developers. Nobody likes to write documentation, but most people know we need it. Even more so in Open Source projects. If you don't have a decent documentation, it will be hard to find contributors which will eventually stall...

Burk Hufnagel04/23/09
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Win Your Copy: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

1 Introduction This is chapter does a nice job of introducing you to the book and giving you an idea of what to expect in the chapters that follow. While this book isn’t specifically for...

Nitin Bharti04/23/09
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The Future for Seam: Web Beans and Beyond

In this presentation, recorded at the JBoss Virtual Experience 2009, Dan Allen and Pete Muir provide an introduction to Seam and show how it fits into your...

Greg Brown04/23/09
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Building a Simple RSS Client in Pivot

A few months ago, this article by Andrew Trice inspired me to write a demo application to see how well Pivot would handle very large tabular data sets of up to one million rows (the results are here). Mr.

Nitin Bharti04/23/09
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Automatic serialization of ActionScript objects to and from XML

In Flex applications that use a backend server for data manipulation and storage, serializing and transferring the objects from one layer to another is an important matter. In this short tip, Constantin Moldovanu shows you how to automatically serialize...

Jakob Jenkov04/23/09
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The $5-Ware License

Here is a crazy idea after all the discussions about "The future of open source": The $5-Ware License. We grab an Apache License 2.0 and add this one clause to it: "If you are using this product for commercial use, you must make a one-time...

Kristian Rink04/23/09
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The "Future of Open Source" Revisited: Added Value?

I have been reading through (and thinking about) this article on "the future of open source", I considered adding a couple of thoughts both personal and from point of view of a person that also has to make strategic technology and product decisions....

Nitin Bharti04/22/09
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Sun Shareholders Sue

A Sun investor has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company for breaching its "fiduciary" duty when it attempts to sell Sun to Oracle under the "present conditions." The lawsuit is being filed on behalf of current...

Jose Maria Arranz04/22/09
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The Future Of Open Source

Sun purchasing by Oracle has worried many people about the future of Sun’s open source products, one of the most important stack of open source software in the world. This purchasing has promoted speculations about the future of open source software as a...

Kirk Knoernschild04/22/09
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Scrum - A Q&A with Refcard Author Michael James

Scrum is a leading agile software development process. In coordination with the recently published Scrum RefCard, DZone had the opportunity to chat with Michael James, a software process mentor, team coach, and Scrum trainer, about Scrum and some of it's...

Rod Johnson04/22/09
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Oracle Adds New Exhibit to Java Technology Museum

Last year, Oracle acquired BEA Systems, the hottest company in enterprise Java…until around 2001.Today, they announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the architects of the infrastructure of the dot com era. Remember the “dot in dot com”?Both...