I'm realizing more and more that I need to bite the bullet and buy a book or two. Although some of the online doc and tutorials are decent for starting out, I need more details, and fast.… [read]

This is an interesting adoption to our actual visual system. I have seen this in my emails long back and tried to find some observation on them.… [read]

Sun's main Java site, java.sun.com, has part two of an interview with Graham Hamilton, one of the lead architects of J2SE 5.0. Click to read this article! [read]

I read Hani's BileBlog incidentally. I used to have him in my RSS reader, but the language makes it hard to concentrate on the arguments (valid as they often are).… [read]

Once upon a midday weary, coding away trying to figure out which version of the Java API has a certain method I needed, I started wondering how am I affected by new releases of Java?… [read]

Oh JBoss Mail Services, we barely knew ye! Imagine my dismay and surprise when someone pointed me out to a fascinating JBoss forum thread pretty much proclaiming that said project is essentially....… [read]

NASAGA is the North American Simulation and Games Association, held in Washington, DC, Nov. 3-6. The games under discussion are mostly for teaching and facilitation more than pure "fun." [read]

I've always wanted to use xdoclet with struts for work projects, however there was always a non technical limiting factor. Anyway,… [read]

http://jdocs.com: a comprehensive online resource for Java API documentation. http://javadocs.org: another site for Java class or package. http://www.jarhoo.… [read]

I finally had enough of my horrid phone provider, Alltel, and decided to switch to cable completely. Unfortunately, I only have Adelphia to choose from in my area,… [read]

I'm getting my Treo 600 replaced by Sprint. The phone hasn't work right for a month or two, consistently dropping calls or losing network connection even in areas of good signal service.… [read]

Saturday night my wife and I met up with some coworkers to take in some music from a local band, Highway J. Good music. You can tell they've been playing together for a long time.… [read]

I was talking to my brother today and he and I came to the conclusion that the current crop of camera phones are pretty lousy.  The cameras need to be much better,… [read]

This is still after almost 12 months the most ironic Java Post of the year.. [read]

I am taking a class called Organizational Behavior & Theory at Eastern Michigan University. My final exam is next week Monday.… [read]

PyCon 2005 is happening March 23-25, 2005 in Washington, D.C. The Call for Papers is now online, and the deadline is December 31.… [read]

For the first time in what seems like forever (really only about a year), I have purchased a couple Java books.… [read]

Using xdoclet 1.2.1 with maven-xdoclet-plugin-1.2.1 I got the message: Tag library requested that is not present: 'maven' in plugin: 'maven-xdoclet-plugin-1.2.… [read]

OpenXource has rcently opened its doors (virtually). It is the creation of Bob McWhirter of The Codehaus fame.… [read]

I've finished the coding part of adding JSF (MyFaces) and Tapestry support to AppFuse. This weekend was spent knee-deep in XDoclet templates - updating AppGen for these two frameworks.… [read]

My Ubuntu CDs "linux for human beings" just arrived! Several sets! These guys are incredible. Looks like we'll have some great giveaways for the GatorJUG meeting Wednesday.… [read]

According to a Newsweek poll, 79% of Americans believe that Jesus was birthed by a virgin mother. Furthermore, 67% believe the entire Christmas story is true,… [read]

Chapter 10 is now available for download. Wanna know about how Transactions work in J2EE? Wanna know how Spring simplifies them and makes them easy to use? If so, this chapter is for you.… [read]

Richard Monson Haefel, the author of one of the first (and best-known) books on EJB,… [read]

Well, the case of Sun Microsystems v. the Poor Innocent Website Hoster Known As Ted Neward has entered its next phase, and the net result is,… [read]

If, like me, you're missing out on the fun and games at OpenWorld, don't fret... There's a bunch of interesting stuff on various Oracle websites that will make it seem like you're virtually there...… [read]

In our major JDeveloper 10g Release 2 (10.1.3) release, we're enhancing virtually all areas of ADF design time and runtime. The enhancements just weren't ready for the first JDeveloper 10.1.… [read]

This is a great comparison of three IoC containers. I hope I get the time to read it more carefully soon. [read]

Gavin King, founder of hibernate has given an interview on Hibernate 3. His opinions are much the same as mine, hibernate being the most efficient, easiest-to-use O/R-Mapper available.… [read]

I just realized, I like java. I don't like .NET. I don't have a very good reason, I guess, but in the end, I'm a simple guy.. Basically, I hope I never have to use .NET. Java is quite another story. [read]

This article will provide the reader with a general introduction to ebXML, including an overview of the main goals of the specification set and a conceptual outline of why ebXML exists.… [read]

This article introduces RosettaNet and the benefits it brings to business-to-business (B2B) supply-chain trading partners. We will start by looking at the origins of RosettaNet,… [read]

The WebLogic Tuxedo Connector (WTC) is a JCA (J2EE Connector Architecture)-compliant software component that provides interoperability between Tuxedo services and WebLogic Server-deployed enterprise… [read]

Kuju will release Crash: Twinsanity for mobile phones in conjuction with the new Vodaphone Live! phones. So what? you say. It's just another Java mobile game. Well, this one is in full 3D.… [read]

On Tuesday Dec 7th at 11:00 AM Pacific, Roger Kitain and I will be hosting a JDC chat on the Faces 1.2 and JSP 2.1 technologies, which are part of the upcoming J2EE 5.0 platform.… [read]

The last week I have been corresponding with Hani, the writer of the BileBlog, without realising it was him.… [read]

Have you ever found yourself in the situation of having to demo a new piece of work to your team or client?… [read]

After having a good read of A Small Cup of SWT, I've decided to test out one of the sample apps to see what's doable. The good news is that it's all very doable!… [read]

In my endless quest for some kinda JVM for my Ipaq 1940,… [read]

I've started reading The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace in an effort to get a feel for SWT programming. The first impressions have been pretty good. The widget set is awesome,… [read]

check out latest book on ESB... Enterprise Service Bus Great read and must for architects. looks like a solution for peter's principle of programming.… [read]

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Until J2SE 1.4, it was illegal to have two methods in a class with similar signatures, but differing only in return types.… [read]

Can you train for unsustainable pace? [read]

Sometimes what you work on makes you the "way cool relative". [read]

I ported some JSP UI code to Velocity, it's been fun learning the Velocity paradigm (being able to cleanly process template components outside the container rocks).… [read]

Have been 1 year I play around in J2ME and now SuperWaba (2 months ). I got several good experience. IBM try to push J9 become Wireless Solution and production quality.… [read]

I'll be speaking at Denver's JUG this Wednesday if you happen to be in the Denver area and want to learn more about Spring. I haven't written the presentation yet,… [read]

How contradiction to my previous post to this post :). Serverside.com published the happenings of the alliance. I came across this news after reading in Javaworld news.… [read]

wsdl2java produce code which bad exception handling which makes accessing ebay's soap interface a pain. [read]

From time to time I see blogs where people list the tools they use as developers. I find these lists very interesting, as they only contain tools that people find truly useful,… [read]

JLayer is a JAVA library that decodes, converts and plays MP3 files in real-time. JLayer sup... [read]

TestNG is a testing framework that fixes most of JUnit's deficiencies and innovates in a number of w... [read]

jTimepiece is the advanced library for working with dates and times in Java. Many easy-to-use method... [read]

Cedric Beust is happy to announce the availabilty of TestNG 2.0. TestNG is a testing framework that innovates in a number of ways: use of annotations,… [read]

Microsoft and Sun have declared some progress in their efforts to achieve interoperability citing co-operation on web services standardisation and deployment of Windows on Sun systems. [read]

IBM has announced the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3.1, and CICS Transaction Gateway 6.0. The CICS Tx Server 3.… [read]

I am very happy to announce the availability of TestNG 2.0! TestNG is a testing framework that fixes most of JUnit's deficiencies and innovates in a number of ways:  use... [read]

Here's a blog post with a comment from NTT DoCoMo why they do not like Microsoft powered cell phones. I like how the blogger talks about .NET programs burned into ROM being incredibly small.… [read]

Users who are so excited when the alliance took place between Sun and MS are not seeing and meaningful results. Yes,… [read]

Either Alexa is lying, or Simpy has some VERY addicted users. See for yourself (scroll down and look at 'Page Views per user'). 65 page views/per user!?. Come on... really?… [read]

Do source files need to be plain text? Does it make sense having a Java source file format with some extra features? Click to read this article! [read]

Five or six Chicago MySQL users are going to be meeting at Uncommon Grounds (see the meetup page for details) tonight. If you‘re in the Chicago area, we‘d love to see you there!… [read]

The Apache Portals community is pleased to announce the release of Jetspeed 2.0 M1. This is our first milestone release and brings Jetspeed closer to a final 2.0 release. The 2.… [read]

Conrad Barski (M.D.) has written a great comic book style web site to teach you (yes you!) how to program in Common Lisp. Check it out.… [read]

J2EE-SDK project has just launched with the goal of building a developer community around the J2EE SDK. [read]

I like injecting dependencies. It makes my code a lot cleaner and easier to deal with. So, when I find a service locator lookup method such as a Spring getBean("foo), my nose turns up a little.… [read]

"You can have sex your whole life, but if you didn't play D&D - you didn't live" -- such is the kind of amazing life advice you might just see if you watch! [read]

Good to see the open source market increasing but it was an upset lack of developers according to Register. According to this story the demand is high and skill shortage is more.… [read]

Last week I ran into a classpath problem. When I traced the problem to one of 201 jar files I decided it was time for a little automation. Read the full content here. [read]

Here's a new Podcast from the Swamp. GatorJUG Podcast RSS 2.0 feed MP3 (7.6Mb) Thanks to Tod Maffin for the lead-in magic!… [read]

Some (quite long) time ago, I put in my blog some strange comments that I found in our code. I then said that from some comments, you can guess a whole little story. I called it Comment Stories.… [read]

People in the Java community may have been wondering why Javalobby bad boy Gerald Bauer seems to have mellowed a bit recently.… [read]

Is is J5SE now? Or is it Java 5, a well hopefully you get the point...… [read]

The Jakarta Commons development team has released version 1.1.4 of the Jakarta Commons Validator. "This version is a minor maintenance release from the 1.1.… [read]

The Glazed Lists Project, a toolkit for list transformations, has announced the release of version 0.9.4 with some powerful bug fixes. "A bug fix release that includes some major optimizations.… [read]

The Jakarta Tomcat development team has announced the release of version 5.5.5-alpha. "This build contains numerous bug fixes and other improvements on top of the stable 5.5.4 release.… [read]

The JLayer MP3 library for Java has released version 1.0. "This release improves VBRI VBR support. It also fixes some bugs in the MP3 decoder. The license was changed from the GPL to the LGPL.… [read]

The AceMDI project, a MDI Framework, has released its first major release, version 1.0. "As for AceMDI 1.0 release, it is stable and can be used in production software.… [read]

The OpenWFE (Open Source WorkFlow Engine) project has annouced the release of version 1.4.7. "OpenWFE 1.4.7 sees the implementation of all the workflow patterns described at http://www.… [read]

Jakarta Commons are easily reusable components that can quickly be put to good use in any server-side Java development undertaking. In fact, components are not big applications,… [read]

My buddy has posted Google Internet Center. [read]

The AspectWerkz 2 architecture has been designed to be an Extensible Aspect Container, which can deploy and run arbitrary aspects. You can read more about the details in this article.… [read]

We should focus on redesigning Java serialization so it is easier to automate (like JSX) instead of focusing on increasing the performance of the current (flawed) design.… [read]

Ideally, one mammoth system would be built to manage the range of services provided by government agencies throughout the state of New York, says Arthur Telaak,… [read]

SnipSnap includes Groovy Scripting for a while now but has not been documented much until now.… [read]

My buddy has posted Google Internet Centre. [read]

A wiki similar to wikipedia for Java encyclopedia. The goal is to get any information about Java and related.… [read]

Like many other Wiki operators, I'm having a problem with "wiki spam" - wildly off-topic entries posted solely in the hope of distorting search engine link counts or attracting gullible customers.… [read]

Some users of PalmOne Inc.… [read]

A presentation on 10 types of Stock investors can be found here. [read]

More a note for myself than anything, but it does look to be a useful library: Commons Transaction aims at providing lightweight, standardized,… [read]

This isn't new-news (it's about 3 weeks old),… [read]

Two sample chapters of Struts Recipes are available in PDF format: Chapter 2 - Forms and form elements Chapter 7 - Logging in, security,… [read]

Graham Hamilton talks about the J2SE 5.0 and future of Java.… [read]

Inspired by java-source.net,Wendong has done a great job of compiling open source J2ME projects at one place. There are about 90 projects in various categories. Must check out.… [read]

Just a quick entry, getting comments stored in the oracle database, use User_col_comments. It has table_name, column_name and comments [read]

simple interactive JAVA application for geometrical 3D sketching KamiWaAi present site now contain 0.0.4 beta and running as Swing application.… [read]

Most of the time we get java.lang.OutOfMemoryError this error on Tomcat or any other Java App we are running because of too mant objects loaded into the heap and no space to run the application.… [read]

planning to incorporate the agent framework in public interface AgentServer extends Remote { public void receiveAgent(Agent agent) throws RemoteException; } public interface Agent { … [read]