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Why ROI vs. SOI (read "REST vs. SOAP") Still Matters: Much to the chagrin of Web service engineers, the REST vs. SOAP debate still lives, and the discussion is not going to die anytime soon. The fundamentals of the debate go beyond superficial rivalry--they are architectural in nature. In order to design a sound Web service API, these principles must be confronted.
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Next Tab Please: I stumbled across another nice feature in NetBeans IDE 6.0 today: a couple of additional keyboard short cuts for moving between tabs.
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How to Run PHP With Quercus in Sun Java System Web Server: Great tip from Sun engineer Sriram Natarajan.
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Java 6: Update N Nice but: I have tried the Update N of Java 6 today and rated it with 2. 2 because i was not able to get the Nimbus look and feel running on my Win XP machine
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JXSE 2.5 : What's Cool #6 -- PeerGroup Executor and ScheduledExcutor: JXSE (JXTA for Java SE/EE 5.0) 2.5 contains quite a number of exciting changes for JXTA application developers. This little series will look at a few of the important changes in the upcoming release. JXSE 2.4 was the first version…
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Java at FOSS4G wrap up Article: GeoTools was really well represented at this years Free and Open Source Geospatial conference.
Posted by jive at (10:27 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)

Run: Who's running for the JCP seats, and will you join them? Also:
Java Today: Long Running Web Process, monitoring and diagnosing performance, and Notebook project
Weblogs: Rainbow 1.1, Seam presentation by Gavin King, and Java ME on Windows Mobile
Forum Posts: Programmatic credential-handilng in GlassFish, ME dependency injection, and adding watermarks to JPEGs with JAI
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The first "Java Agri-Meeting"...: A few months ago, just returned from Jazoon, a few italian JUG leaders and members started thinking about a strange fact. In spite of a quite large number of JUGs and of the relative short distance among them (usually 100-200km),…
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Why I don't use Swing hacks (continuation): Overview of hacks in validation overlays implementations
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Jonathan Knudsen is at it again: Preview his new book at OOPSLA, October 22nd: Jonathan Knudsen is an accomplished technical writer who has published dozens of books and articles on Java and Java ME over the years. He is currently working on his latest book "Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA" which will be…
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October 08 2007

Seam Presentation by Gavin King on October 16th: Gavin King will be speaking about Seam at the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG meeting on October 16th. This JUG meets at 6:30pm on the third Tuesday of each month at Google in Mountain View, California.
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The Java Power Tools is almost finished!: The Java Power Tools book is now being reviewed, and has undergone some big changes since the start of the project. Check out the latest table of contents!
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Rainbow 1.1 - SVG browser for remote SVN repositories: The new version of Rainbow SVG browser is available. Now you can browse remote SVN repositories with regular and compressed SVG content.
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Closer To Fine: Open governance updates from NetBeans and OpenJDK... also:
Java Today: OpenJDK governance board minutes, NetBeans governance board election results, and JSR-310 and Java 7 language changes
Spotlight: Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference
Weblogs: Synchronized security updates, Japex 1.1.4, and dynamic scalable clustering
Forum Posts: ME conference call for papers, JNDI references in GlassFish, and permanent apps with Web Start
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World's Smallest Duke: A collection piece for Java Geeks!
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Java ME on Windows Mobile: Couple words about getting Java ME on Windows Mobile
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October 07 2007

New widget library for jMaki: I just made a few more widgets available for the jMaki framework.
Posted by carlavmott at (22:06 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (1)

The complexity of large software: an AT&T; example: I purchased an iPhone yesterday and tried to activate it. Foolish, I know, but I'm crazy like that. Activating my iPhone today (starting last night, really) proved to be a multi-hour ordeal involving Googling, and spending over an hour on…
Posted by joshy at (09:39 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (4)

October 06 2007

Dynamic Scalable Clustering: In today's information technology world, fault tolerance has become an expected system characteristic, as demands on such systems, not only requires the availability of data, but also the efficiency of such systems.
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A quick question about the "Customer JRE"...: ... or whatever they will call it.
Posted by fabriziogiudici at (11:29 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (1)

Metro Tooling - Netbeans, Eclipse, Ant, Maven...: Metro comes with various tooling options. Here I provide the details details about the tooling options available for Metro.
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October 05 2007

JustJava 2007 Goes Mobile: I have posted my highlights from JustJava 2007 in São Paulo, Brazil. A lot of nice Java stuff and a ME track this year! Good news!
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New Scripting Resource Center on SDN: Sun Developer Network just launched a one-stop site of scripting resources.
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What's New in Japex 1.1.4?: More users usually translates into more requests for features. A few more developers have picked up Japex in the last month, and a couple have asked me to provide additional features for their benchmarks. I'll use this blog to introduce a couple of new features in Japex version 1.1.4.
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Sun's new syncrhonized security updates policy: Beginning with 1.4.2_16 + 1.5.0u13 + 1.6.0u3, Sun is moving to a new policy of releasing synchronized security updates of all supported versions of Java SE.
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Finally something to show: The moment has come. Now I have at least a screenshot of a working app, not a demo, that show the actual state of my work: a resume of my past code base from mCube work and something new that emerged in last couple of years.
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More Adventurous: From the lowest-level language to one of the highest... also:
Feature Article: Launch Java Applications from Assembly Language Programs
Weblogs: GlassFish hidden properties, JavaBeans' FeatureDescriptors, and clearing OpenJDK encumbrances
java.net Poll:Have you tried out the Java SE 6.0 Update N (aka, "Consumer JRE") Early Access?
Forum Posts: QuickStarter prefetching details, QuickStarter source availability, and localizing JFileChooser
Java Today: NetBeans Portal Pack 2.0 beta, JavaTools newsletter 141, and NetBeans OpenLaszlo Support plugin
Posted by invalidname at (08:23 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)

Screencast #Web 9: JRuby-on-Rails standalone and shared WARs in GlassFish: Are you an existing GlassFish V2 user and interested in using Rails applications ? - JRuby module is now available on the Update Center. This module allows you to create standalone or shared WAR of a Rails application that…
Posted by arungupta at (06:11 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)

October 04 2007

OpenJDK Encumbrances being cleared: The OpenJDK project is about 95% of a complete Java implementation. That last 5% or so is what we've called 'encumbrances', code which we weren't able to open source. The last two weeks has seen a lot of interesting movement…
Posted by robogeek at (15:16 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (2)

WYLIWYT - where you look is where you type in NetBeans: In my latest blog I wrote about the TrackIR device and my Java binding JTrackIR. Now what to do with it? What about controlling the IDE with the head?
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Customizing GlassFish v2 with 23 unpublished properties.: Grizzly in GlassFish v2 has 23 unpublished properties that can be used to improve performance, switch the thread pool, configure the tcp stack, etc. Why hiding them?
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Does He Love You?: Slashdot founder reveals why he hates Java... also:
Java Today: Grizzly 1.6.1, 3GPP for Fault Management RI, and Roman Strobl demos NetBeans Ruby debugger
Weblogs: Web services in 6.0uN, more jMaki tips, and audience feedback from midwest Java Tech Days
Forum Posts: Metro connection pools, 6.0uN QuickStarter not for Vista, and memory settings for graphics-intensive Java apps
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JavaBeans: feature attributes: Let's talk about the FeatureDescriptor class, the superclass for all other descriptors. It enables to add extra metadata to describe the beans. The builder tool could use such metadata to provide enhanced functionality.
Posted by malenkov at (07:29 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (3)

Screencast #WS7: Secure and Reliable Web service using Metro/GlassFish and NetBeans IDE 6: The Web services support in NetBeans 6 is further simplified from NetBeans 5.5.1. There are two main points I like: Integral support for Security, Reliability and Transactions on an endpoint. This means there is no need to download any additional…
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Java SNMP now available in OpenDMK: The OpenDMK project now includes the SNMP API from Sun's Java DMK product. Kudos to Daniel Fuchs who put in the considerable work to make this happen!
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October 03 2007

The Human Side of Security and Performance: It's not about hard skills, it's not about Java Security or Performance tools or API...is about how the people works.
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JAX-WS 2.1 in Java SE 6 Update N: Along with new features and enhancements, Java SE 6 Update N (formerly known as the "Consumer JRE") has high performance Web Services support with JAX-WS 2.1.
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From A to Web...: Are you a Java developer/architect interested in Rich Internet Applications? Curious about JavaFX? Do you use AJAX? Interested in some comparison with Adobe's Flex?
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javascript remote diff/merge tool: Update of the open source project JSBlend tool now handles remote diff and merges
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JustJava 2007 is open: Ola Pessoal/Hello Everybody! pt: Estamos aqui em São Paulo, Brasil, no JustJava 2007 (http://www.sucesusp.org.br/eventos2007/justjava07/), evento do SouJava. A foto acima mostra o Mauricio Leal (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/maltron/) fazendo a abertura do evento. Hoje a tarde o Neto Marin (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/netomarin) vai apresentar um tutorial…
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Mid-West Java Tech Days Trip Report: I presented the Metro web services stack at Mid-West Java Tech Days in Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana last week. This blog entry shows questions asked and answers given.
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Project Grizzly 1.6.1 released: We are still growing our community, with the great effect of having to release more often. Plus, This release is also targeted to be used by both GlassFish v3, Sailfin Project and many more...
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It's A Hit: Early word is good on the Consumer JRE... also:
Forum Posts: 6.0uN QuickStarter impressions, WSIT truststores, and modifying zipped SVG source
Java Today: Danny Coward on 6.0uN, NetBeans Newsletter #311, and declarative UIs with JavaFX script
Weblogs: Anticipating the "JavaOne for ME" conference, OpenJDK Mercurial transition update, and thoughts about BGJUG First Meeting
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TOTD #10: Consuming JSON and XML representations generated by a Jersey endpoint in a jMaki Table widget: A jMaki widget expects data in JSON format as defined by the standard data models. There are three possible ways to generate the JSON data from a Jersey endpoint that can be consumed by a jMaki widget: Return JSON representation of…
Posted by arungupta at (05:59 PST) | Permalink | Discuss (0)

October 02 2007

Thank you Netbeans team for the great Ruby support in Netbeans 6: Netbeans 6 provides excellent support for Ruby development using either Ruby or JRuby. After trying out practically every other Ruby IDE out there, including RadRails, IntelliJ Ruby plugin, I must hand it to the Netbeans team for the wonderful support in Netbeans 6. With the Beta 1 release of Netbeans 6, quality had improved over past Milestones and is actually very usable.
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