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Kirk Knoernschild04/15/09
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The Future of Programming Languages

In this session, recorded at JAOO Aarhus 2008, Anders Hejlsberg provides fascinating insight to the future of programming languages. He talks extensively...

Ola Bini04/15/09
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Languages Should Die

One of those interesting facts about evolution is that most of the species that ever existed are now extinct. There are good reasons for this. The average life time for a mammalian species is a few million years. There are currently about 5400 species of...

Vladimir Vivien04/15/09
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Introducing JmxLogger: Realtime Log Monitoring with JMX

JmxLogger makes it easy to monitor application log events in realtime using JMX. You can use the JmxLogger API's Log4J Appender or the Java Logging Handler to broadcast your application logs as JMX notifications. Using the familiar configuration mechanism...

David Sills04/14/09
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Win Your Copy: Seam In Action

Part 1. Teeing off with Seam Chapter 1. Seam unifies Java EE The major concept behind Seam is to serve as an adjunct to Java EE. JSF, a relatively recent entrant to the specification, has...

Slim Ouertani04/14/09
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Hessian Client Extender With Dynamic Proxy Inside OSGi

The next OSGi release (4.2) contains many enhancements such as service registry hooks, transactions and distribution. Apache CXF and Eclipse Riena are the pioneers using this to enable distribution inside OSGi. Newton as an SCA implementation and others...

Craig Walls04/14/09
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A Dozen OSGi Myths and Misconceptions

Anybody who knows me or has been following me lately knows that I have an interest in OSGi. And I'm not alone--there has a lot of buzz about OSGi in the past few years. But as I talk about OSGi with other developers, I often hear them say things about OSGi...

Zviki Cohen04/14/09
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Which Technology Should I Use Next?

That's always a tough question. Java or C#? Ruby or Django? Flex or Silverlight? Drupal or Joomla? In some cases, you need to implement and use the technology. In other cases, you have some spare time and you want to invest in learning a...

Debasish Ghosh04/13/09
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Objects as Actors?

Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia, recently brought up an interesting topic on unifying actors and objects. Talking about Scala and his disliking towards Scala's implementation of actors as an additional entity on top of objects, he says, it would have been a...

Peter ___04/13/09
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Hessian Web Service Protocol - Hello World Example

Yesterday I took a quick look to the binary communication protocol: Hessian. With Hessian your admins will not have any troubles with port-activation for your (’desktop’) application, if they have to access remote services (DB etc.).

Cedric Beust04/13/09
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Why Java Doesn't Need Operator Overloading (and Very Few Languages Do, Really)

Operator overloading is a topic that never fails to generate very passionate responses, and this monster thread on Artima is no exception. First of all, I'd like to address a common complaint heard from people who dislike operator overloading, and which...

Axel Rauschmayer04/13/09
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What Should Be The Platform of Your Next Application?

I'm currently thinking about the next steps for my information manager Hyena. It exists in two versions, as an Eclipse plugin and as a GWT-based web application. Having to maintain two versions is a major burden, so I've been thinking: Would would be the...

James Shore04/10/09
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The Agile Startup: Build and Deploy

Q: What's the difference between an unemployed programmer and an entrepreneur? A: You don't know either? Kent Beck The economy's down, and that sucks, but it's good news for innovation. People everywhere are creating startups. A lot of you...

Nitin Bharti04/10/09
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Component-Oriented Java Development with OSGi

In this presentation, recorded at a recent Skills Matter meet up, Neil Bartlett gives a brief introduction to OSGi, the dynamic module system for Java. It...

Greg Wilkins04/10/09
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Google AppEngine Uses Jetty

Hot on the heels of Google Widget Toolkit(GWT) switching to Jetty, the little server that can has received some more Google luv'n! Google's new App Engine Java service is powered by Jetty! With App Engine, you can build web applications using standard...

Kirk Knoernschild04/09/09
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Continuous Deployment? Or Continuously Deployable?

Eric Ries recently posted a nice little piece on Continuous Deployment. In it, he describes the process used at IMVU where all code that's written for an application is immediately deployed to production. In the post, he describes the five key ingredients to...