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Roland Carlsson03/20/09
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javax: Suggestion for Including New Language Features

For a while now, a lot of people have expressed a lot of opinions about how to keep the Java language up to date with other languages like C#, Groovy, Ruby etc etc. Some want features that they belive would make their life a lot simpler. Others see the same...

James Sugrue03/20/09
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A Call to Action For SOA Developers

A new whitepaper written by David Linthicum discusses two important ideas about SOA that are not often discussed together: the real value of SOA to businesses and a core SOA technology called process configuration that is used to create SOA applications. This...

James Sugrue03/19/09
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JavaFX Coding Competition - A Worthy Challenge

Now this sounds like a competition that will get people going on JavaFX! Starting next Monday, March 23, you've the chance to win $25,000 for developing an innovative rich media application using JavaFX. Second and third placed applications will will each...

Ryan Heaton03/19/09
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Providing AMF REST Resources in Java

Action Message Format (AMF) is a high-performance web services protocol that was developed and designed especially for Flash applications by Adobe. AMF is generally considered an RPC protocol (i.e.

Benoit Langlois03/19/09
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An Introduction to Eclipse Generation Factories

In order to improve software development industrialization, a major step consists in mass-producing software. This mass-production must be customizable, and must be able to support complex, large-scale and heterogeneous generations. Given the today’s...

Nitin Bharti03/18/09
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Would Sun Execs Get AIG-style Bonuses?

As rumours fly around the Net about a possible Sun acquisition by IBM, one of the questions that probably comes to a few people's mind is what it will mean for the upper echelons of Sun management. The bigwigs may stay on for a bit and the bulk of middle...

James Sugrue03/18/09
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IBM in Talks to Buy Sun?

According to the Wall Street Journal, IBM is in talks to buy out Sun. It could be a worthwhile move for IBM, giving them a more complete portfolio. But would it be the right thing for Sun to do? It certainly would have an impact on Sun's battered share...

John Ferguson Smart03/18/09
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Installing Hudson as a Windows Service

I don't usually recommend using Windows for your build server, but sometimes you may not have a choice. You may be running Microsoft tools as an integral part of your build lifecycle, for example, or be constrained to use the local company standards. Hudson...

Veljko Krunic03/18/09
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How to Fix Memory Leaks in Java

In this article we’ll focus on techniques that will enable you to address memory leaks with any commercial or free/open source memory profiler; we’re not here to recommend one tool over another.

Masoud Kalali03/17/09
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Frank Kieviet on OpenESB - "Seeing Beyond JCAPS and GlassFish"

The OpenESB project was introduced in 2005 when Sun Microsystems released its initial source code under the CDDL license. While Sun Microsystems, the user community and some other third party companies are working together on the project, the primary source...

Jasper Potts03/17/09
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Which Look and Feel Should be Default in Java 7?

The other day I was discussing with colleagues if Nimbus should be the default LAF(Look and Feel) for Swing applications. The current default LAF is Ocean which is a spiced up theme for Metal which has been the Swing default LAF since the beginning. It feels...

Misko Hevery03/17/09
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Design for Testability and "Domain-Driven Design"

Dave Gladfelter has written a great question which I think a lot of people may be asking an therefore I am sharing the letter with the answers here…

Sean Moore03/16/09
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Flex best practices – Part 2: Development practices

Part 1 of this series focused on best practices for setting up your Flex projects. In Part 2, I continue the discussion by outlining best practices to use during the Flex development process. This article contains over 90 best practices for the...

Kirk Knoernschild03/16/09
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Agile Methods - Delivering Software Faster

A core tenet of agile methodologies is to help teams deliver software more quickly. But with the plethora of agile practices available to choose from, teams new to agile struggle to find the right practices that help them realize speedier delivery.

Andrej Koelewijn03/16/09
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Groovy Example: ActiveMQ Broker and Apache Camel

I’m playing around with Groovy scripting. It’s an excellent way to quickly prototype some ESB scenarios. Recently I blogged about using Groovy to write files to a gtalk account using Apache Camel. The example below shows you how to start an ActiveMQ...