Configuration-based Spring bean definition with Grails
I [Luke Daley] released a new version of the Grails JMS plugin (0.5) over the weekend. This release features completely rewritten... more »
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Migrating a Spring Application to Grails: Where do I put all my stuff?
I [Tomás Lin] will outline some of the lessons learned and share tips and ideas about enabling the Grails stack within large Spring... more »
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RJC501: How Much Does Turnaround Cost?
Over the Reloading Java Classes (RJC) article series, we’ve examined how class reloading happens, from objects and classloaders to... more »
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Eclipse e4 - New look and feel
Blog entry describing how to activate the new look and feel in Eclipse e4.
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Numerosity - More Metrics Without Meaning
Common Complaint: "This was the nth time that someone was up in arms that [X] was broken ... PL/SQL that ... has one function that is... more »
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GroovyServ
GroovyServ makes startup time quicker, by pre-invoking groovy as a TCP/IP server. (If you know gnuserv/gnuclient, this is like that.) In... more »
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Hibernate, lazy loading and inheritance
A common problem with typecasting a lazy loaded Hibernate entity to its child is a ClassCastException. This exception occurs because the... more »
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Understanding JSON
A simple overview of JSON (Javascript Object Notation) for beginners. Helps to understand JSON data structure and it use.
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Frank Wierzbicki on Jython and Switching from Sun to Startup
Frank Wierzbicki is the Jython project lead and a lead developer at Sauce Labs. He's been working on Jython as an open source project... more »
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Design By Contract with Clojure
I just learned about the design by contract features of Clojure, and I’m impressed by the simplicity. It’s implemented using regular... more »
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Web service testing with soapUI
SoapUI is a useful tool for testing web services. Not only makes it possible to test deployed web services, but it also offers the... more »
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Dr. Strangecode. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Legacy
Someone recently asked me what technologies I would recommend for the next Enterprise Web Project. Like a good little software developer,... more »
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Ehcache 2.0 Gets More 'Enterprisey' Features
Today, Terracotta is releasing new versions of Ehcache and the Terracotta infrastructure. Today's bundle release, which is appropriately... more »
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Design Patterns Uncovered: The Visitor Pattern
Today we're going to take a look at the Visitor pattern. Of all of the patterns that I've used so far, Visitor is by far the most... more »
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Genuitec Readies New Release of MyEclipse IDE
Genuitec this month is expected to deliver a new release of MyEclipse, the $150 IDE that the company positions as an alternative to IBM's... more »
OpenOffice on the NetBeans Platform on Ubuntu
Experiments with OOo and NetBeans.
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op4j: Bending the Java spoon
op4j is a developer happiness tool. It is a Java library aimed at improving quality, semantics, cleanness and readability of Java code,... more »
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Quick Glimpse into MVC with Java and Swing Part I: Getting Started
First article in a series on developing an application in Java using the MVC design pattern.
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Swinging Task Dialog (part 2)
Part 2 of Swinging Task Dialog series
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Spice up your JavaFX project with maven
JavaFX is a promising technology for nice Rich Internet Applications (RIA). However this is a quiet recent product (it was introduced by... more »
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Continuous Integration Tools Directory
A directory of open source and commercial continuous integration tools with additional reviews and resources.
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Java Developer Diaries; Developing Android Applications
On September 6th, 2007 i received a message from Chloe Arrowsmith of Google over Linkedin, asking if I am interested in a position Mobile... more »
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NetBeans Running Eclipse Bundles?
I was amazed to see Jaroslav Tulach demo NetBeans running Mylyn's Bugzilla bundle. His experiment is part of a plan to have NetBeans... more »
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Hello World module with Jigsaw
Following my building Jigsaw post, here are the instructions for a Hello World module.
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Artifactory Power Pack - is it really powerful ?
As a long-time Artifactory Open Source version user - I'm trying to see what its Power Pack offering is good for. Is it really powerful?
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