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JarJar: solves class loading conflicts

Sometimes you're faced with a conflict between two versions of the same JAR in your classpath that cannot be resolved. Here's an example:

0 replies - 4783 views - 01/26/08 by Steven Devijver in News

OSGi on the Server Side and the matter of the WOO

With the advent of a SOA approach to building enterprise applications, it is apparent that there is a need of a better modularity solution for Java server-side...

9 replies - 6501 views - 01/25/08 by Roger Voss in News

Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional

Chapter 1: Introducing Java SE 6. Covers the main themes of the release: "Compatibility and stability", "Diagnosability, monitoring, and management", "Ease of...

0 replies - 6496 views - 01/25/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in Book Reviews

The future is now -- Java development in 2008

In The future is now -- Java development in 2008, Andy Glover writes:The year 2007 was full of exciting plot twists, punctuated by growing excitement about...

0 replies - 1975 views - 01/25/08 by Matt Raible in News

The Grinder 3.0 Released

Earlier this week The Grinder 3.0 was released. The Grinder is a Java load testing framework, similar to something like JMeter. If you have the need for...

0 replies - 3161 views - 01/25/08 by Alex Miller in News

Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects

The book kicks off with two introductory chapters, followed by descriptions of four "Web 2.0" projects, and some appendices. Chapter 1 - Introduction The author begins with a brief...

1 replies - 4699 views - 01/25/08 by Matt Stine in Book Reviews

All Java web frameworks should support hot deploy of a single class

In Anyone else using Groovy?, Tim Fennell (inventor of Stripes) raves at how much he likes Groovy now that it supports Java 5 features. He writes that Groovy...

22 replies - 3925 views - 01/24/08 by Matt Raible in News

JCP Votes Down JSR 323

I wrote recently about an interesting JSR proposal JSR 323 - Strong Mobility for Java. This proposal concerned allowing the full running state of a Java...

0 replies - 1145 views - 01/24/08 by Alex Miller in News

The busy Java developer's guide to Scala

Ted Neward, popular developer, author and speaker, wrote an introductory article for Scala, which is on IBM developerWorks.The busy Java developer's guide to...

0 replies - 1921 views - 01/24/08 by Rick Hightower in News

Migrating a Rails app to Grails

There's an interesting trend I've seen happening at companies over the last year. More and more, they're experimenting with Rails and/or Grails for both...

4 replies - 2932 views - 01/23/08 by Matt Raible in News

Interview: John Ferguson Smart, Author of Java Power Tools

Java Power Tools which will be released around Match 2008, covers 30 open source tools designed to improve the development practices of Java developers. As...

0 replies - 2364 views - 01/22/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Java 7 Predictions

So, we're a few weeks into the new year and it's time for my predictions about what will make it into Java 7. My best guess is that a Java 7 SE JSR will be...

11 replies - 15283 views - 01/22/08 by Alex Miller in News

What Java IDE VM arguments do YOU use?

Java based IDEs are really impressive these days, but developers may quickly find themselves running up against a wall (or worse, constant crashes!) with...

11 replies - 22487 views - 01/21/08 by Jim Bethancourt in News

Stack frame annotation

There has been an interesting thread lately in the jvm-languages Google group that I thought was worth bringing up. The thread concerns finding a better...

1 replies - 2419 views - 01/20/08 by Alex Miller in News

Year of the Snake: JVM Languages, which would you pick?

"TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007" making it the 6th most popular language. According to the Tiobe report increased by over 2%....

0 replies - 2634 views - 01/20/08 by Rick Hightower in News