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Vroom Request Dispatcher 1.0.0 Released

Vroom Request Dispatcher or VRD is a light weight API that helps you write java web applications with simplicity. No need to write servlets that require...

0 replies - 2187 views - 12/01/08 by Farrukh Ijaz in Announcements

Is Java Becoming Irrelevant?

Sun Microsystems announced today that it would be laying off 6,000 employees (18% of it’s workforce) in an attempt to better realign itself with “global...

35 replies - 7961 views - 11/15/08 by Riyad Kalla in Articles

Groovy Recipes - Greasing the Wheels of Java

In Chapter 1, “Introduction”, author Scott Davis provides some pretty good arguments for learning Groovy; starting with this quote, “Groovy is what Java would look like had it been written in...

0 replies - 2888 views - 11/11/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Groovy 1.5.7 and 1.6-beta2 released

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team and G2One announce the joint release of both Groovy 1.5.7 -- current stable and maintenance branch...

6 replies - 4926 views - 10/09/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Metawidget 0.6: New Support for Swing AppFramework, JBoss jBPM & More

Metawidget is an Open Source 'smart UI widget' that populates itself at runtime with UI components to match the properties of your business objects.In addition...

0 replies - 1964 views - 10/08/08 by Richard Kennard in Announcements

Inforama Document Automator 1.0

Inforama, a new Open Source document generation and automation project has been released.Inforama, allows businesses to create personalised letters and...

0 replies - 1279 views - 09/30/08 by Val Cassidy in Announcements

Ant or Gant?

Yes, this is exactly what I am frequently asked by my clients and many developers. It isn't easy to answer this question. There are several  projects using...

34 replies - 15645 views - 09/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Is easyb Easy?

I was introduced to easyb by none other than the creator of easyb: Andrew Glover. In spite of hearing and reading a lot about easyb from Andy, I never had a...

13 replies - 15917 views - 09/17/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Griffon: Grails-like Framework for Swing

The initial release of Griffon, a Grails-like framework for Swing application development, has been posted. Danno Ferrin has the inside scoop.

0 replies - 6530 views - 09/11/08 by Andres Almiray in Announcements

Using a Hibernate Interceptor To Set Audit Trail Properties

In almost every application I've done, the database tables have some kind of audit trail fields. Sometimes this is a separate "audit log" table where...

10 replies - 19477 views - 08/27/08 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

Rapid Web Application Prototyping with Maven and Groovy

Utilizing both Maven and Groovy you can rapidly prototype web apps, and in this blog I'll walk you through exactly how to do that. First we are going to create...

1 replies - 8161 views - 08/14/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

JavaFx: the hidden threading rule

The following post is the result of my latest JavaFx Script experiments mixed with Stu's Java.Next series (1,2). Alright, so Stu decides to showcase how the...

6 replies - 7453 views - 08/13/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Spring and Scripting

Spring is among the handful of Java application frameworks that is widely used in many enterprise projects. It has become a viable alternative to the more...

0 replies - 7522 views - 08/11/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Leveraging Unit Tests As Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors

Frank Cohen will demonstrate the new PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 open- source end-to-end service governance and test automation tool. Software developers...

0 replies - 5828 views - 07/21/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Quick Menu Creation with the Java SwingBuilder's SWT-style API

The latest 0.2.DEV release of the Java SwingBuilder introduces SWT-style API for creating menu items in the YAML file, thus allowing you to specify the text,...

0 replies - 2171 views - 07/19/08 by Jacek in Announcements