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JFX and the Way Forward After JavaOne 2008

For me, JavaOne 2008 was enlightening, exhilarating and exhausting.  It was great meeting colleagues that I had only known via email and JavaFX mailing...

6 replies - 1140 views - 05/12/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 2

Part 1 of this series helped provide the background needed to begin exploring web services testing. We learned the basics of SoapUI and how easy it was to...

2 replies - 1418 views - 05/12/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Intro to Design Patterns: Prototype Pattern

Today we're going to look at the Prototype design pattern.  Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by...

4 replies - 1740 views - 05/07/08 by Andre Mare in Articles

A Java Programmer's Guide to Random Numbers, Part 1: Beyond java.util.Random

This is the first in a series of articles about random numbers in Java programs. The series covers the following topics and also serves as an introduction to...

0 replies - 2635 views - 05/07/08 by Daniel Dyer in Articles

OSGi & Spring

It’s time to move on and show the simple elegance Spring brings to OSGi development using the HelloWorldSpec sample from the OSGi & Modularity post. But...

0 replies - 1808 views - 05/06/08 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 1

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services are becoming more and more popular in many development projects. In Java or .NET, exposing your business...

2 replies - 3119 views - 05/06/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Watch for Falling Blocks: Take TetrisJFX for a Spin!

You may know that I've been progressively building a Tetris game in JavaFX on this blog, the most recent post being Game Over: Improving upon the Compiled...

4 replies - 998 views - 05/01/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

How To Debug a Remote Java Application

The importance of being able to debug a Java application that is deployed remotely, in another country or city, cannot be understated. Recently I was...

1 replies - 2304 views - 04/30/08 by in Articles

Game Over: Improving upon the Compiled JavaFX Tetris Program

In the Knowing the State of a JavaFX Script Animation post I showed you the more succinct syntax for controlling animations.  Now I'd like to show you some...

0 replies - 916 views - 04/29/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

Knowing the State of a JavaFX Script Animation

In the Reading 'tween the Lines - Simplified JavaFX Script Animation Syntax post, I showed you how to start, stop, pause and resume an animation.  In this...

4 replies - 1096 views - 04/25/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

Reading 'tween the Lines - Simplified JavaFX Script Animation Syntax

As mentioned in the first Tetris post, the JavaFX Script animation syntax is undergoing simplification.  Today, I'd like to show you a very basic example of...

0 replies - 1313 views - 04/16/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

Personalizing Web Pages Using JSF

Personalization is an unavoidable part of any web sites. Personalization allows users to tailor a standard web site as per their needs. User can perform page...

1 replies - 1702 views - 04/16/08 by deepasobhana in Articles

Using Logs in Unit Tests

Have you found yourself needing to look at log messages from inside a unit test?

6 replies - 1953 views - 04/12/08 by Rob Williams in Articles

Eclipse Adapters - A Hands-On, Hand-Holding Explanation

When programming Eclipse plug-ins, you quickly come face to face with Eclipse adapters. If you are not familiar with the adapter pattern, adapters can be...

0 replies - 5257 views - 04/09/08 by Jeffrey Ricker in Articles

Reduced Footprint Java SE: Bringing Java Standard Edition Down to Size

A previous post on my blog demonstrated how you can, with minimal effort, lessen the disk footprint of a typical Java SE 5.0 runtime environment by about a...

0 replies - 1392 views - 04/01/08 by Jim Connors in Articles