Objective-C for Java Programmers
The design of Java was heavily inspired by Objective-C, but many people find learning Objective-C after Java to be a difficult challenge.... more »
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NOSQL MongoDB some useful info and a short evaluation using Java
With NOSQL movement gaining momentum and big firms like Facebook,Google contributing to it, MongoDB seems to be an important member of... more »
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Oracle This is What You Need to Do With Java..
I think its safe to assume that most Java developers feel some in trepidation as Oracle take over the stewardship of Java. Will Oracle's... more »
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Java Monitoring project for distributed systems based on AOP
I started a new Java monitoring project at sourceforge. It is a Maven Plugin and has two important advantages. First AOP based... more »
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Debug Maven tests running inside eclipse
For those of us who have been running JUnit tests inside eclipse , one of the biggest feature available to us was the debug ability of... more »
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The default NetBeans IDE java source template is polluting the web
People will never bother to do anything manual unless absolutely necessary. This is why I believe the current NetBeans "empty" java file... more »
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Testing Java EE the JBoss way
Recently, jboss.org developers have been working hard on a solution to improve the testability of Java EE, and particularly JBoss AS.... more »
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Tuning Queries when using Pagination with JPA and Hibernate
Database pagination allows you to step through a result set in manageable chunks (say 5 at a time). This is an important feature when a... more »
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The Java Memory Model
In this first blog entry of the Java OutOfMemoryError series I start to explain the fundamentals and architecture of the Java Memory Model.
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Winstone: The Smaller, Faster, Lighter Servlet Container
JBoss, WebSphere, and Weblogic all have their place, but sometimes what you need is a container that starts up quickly, and has a small... more »
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Building a GAE+GWT application using the best practices - Introduction
In the next few blog posts, I’m going to present my experience building a simple (but non-trivial) web application using GWT and Google... more »
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BIRT is Mobile!
BIRT MobileThe BIRT Mobile Viewer is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch (Download from iTunes). This viewer empowers users to... more »
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Friday Java Quiz: Know Your IDEs Capabilities
It has been my experience that most Java developers nowadays use an IDE (or IDEs) for their daily work. Knowing the capabilities of these... more »
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Oracle put your Java investments here..
I think its safe to assume that most Java developers feel some in trepidation as Oracle take over the stewardship of Java. Will Oracle’s... more »
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Design Patterns Uncovered: The Proxy Pattern
Today's pattern is the Proxy pattern, another simple but effective pattern that helps with controlling use and access of resources.
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Going plugin (from an OSGi bundle)
The Eclipse plugin creation wizard allows to create OSGi bundles or Eclipse plugins.
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Scala in production at Twitter - interview with Twitter developers
About a year ago they started replacing some of the back-end Ruby services with applications running on the JVM and written in Scala. In... more »
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Why Eclipse Leaves Me Wanting
I think I've come to understand why Eclipse leaves me always feeling a bit frustrated. Yes, it is more stable than IDEA, uses less... more »
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Introduction to Pyjamas, Part 1: Exploit the synergy of GWT and Python
Pyjamas is a cool tool, or framework, for developing Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) applications in Python. It's a versatile tool... more »
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The Single Page Interface Manifesto
I have published The Single Page Interface Manifesto. The objective of this manifesto is to promote the progressive disappearance of the... more »
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Asynchronous Games in Firebase; pt II
Previous posts have looked at the motivation for writing asynchronous multiplayer games on top of Firebase. This post I’ll sketch an... more »
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Five Common java.lang.Process Pitfalls
The simplest way to call an external executable or shell script from Java is the creation of a Process via Runtime.exec or... more »
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SOA with Spring (Part 2)
Abstract: In Part 1 of this article series, I had used the popular Spring framework, a lightweight container that provides automated... more »
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Scaling from 1 node to 1000 w/ the absolute minimum changes w/Greg Luck
Come see Greg Luck, founder of Ehcache and Taylor Gautier, Principal Client Architect for Grid Dynamics present scaling from 1 node to... more »
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Java in Bioinformatics
In 2009 I attended the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Enterprise-Level Research Informatics in the Health... more »
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