Today, I was trying to rotate and flip an image around its center point in Flex and the solutions I came across on the web didn’t seem to do the trick.… [read]

The iPhone OS is a great operating system and is also one of the safest. That’s why Apple rejected the anti-virus application developed by Kaspersky Lab.… [read]

Glassfish will be for productive and agile development. Weblogic is the availabillity and scalability solution. Therefore the v2 was the last GF with clustering facilities. [read]

One of the blessings of the JVM is that there are many “pure” databases available for it; Sesame (RDF) and Apache Derby (relational) come to mind. Alas,… [read]

Here are some of my thoughts about when to use ESB and when not to. These tips should be considered as useful indicators but not as universally applicable or reliable.… [read]

“Duchess is a global network of women who work with or are interested in Java technology. Our primary focus is to support and get a voice to women in the Java industry.… [read]

ZK has released version 5.0.1 which focusing on introducing requested features. This release boasts 11 new features and 57 bug fixes including jQuery 1.4.2 integration and Jasperreport advancements.… [read]

We're pleased to announce that we now offer global HTML5 training! Read the full press release here: http://www.marketwire.… [read]

AutoTest provides an automatic (or continuous) testing feature for Grails.… [read]

The Spring Framework represents a dependency injection / inversion of control container framework for the Java platform. Furthermore Spring offers a lot of additional functions.… [read]

You could probably say I’m getting a dose of my own medicine. After all, I’m one of the people responsible for Apache Maven 2.x,… [read]

The organisers of the JAZOON conference announced the keynote speakers for this year’s edition of the event that will be held from 1st to 3rd June 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland.… [read]

In this blog post, I want to show you how we at codecentric are using Mule ESB and Apache CXF in our projects to create webservices very easily, and what you can do to make them faster,… [read]

Stephen Colebourne, lead of the JSR 310 Date and Time API, has recently published an Early Draft Review of the proposed additions and changes to the Java language.… [read]

Since the iPad SDK became publicly available January 27 there were more than 2,000 apps released in App Store.… [read]

Snorcle? (12817 views) Java FX Composer / Designer for NetBeans 6.… [read]

See what happens when you don't put Java ME technology on a cell phone. Here's an article about how the Google Nexus One Android smartphone recently had disappointing sales numbers. Of course,… [read]

As of this morning I work for Google. The title is “Developer Advocate”. The focus is Android. Fun is expected. [read]

When Apple started accepting iPad pre-orders it was announced the iPad Case will be shipped April 3rd and iPad keyboard Dock – April 20th.… [read]

Since Hibernate 3.5.0 is about to release (currently CR-2) I'm starting to explore this version and the features available in the new JPA 2.0 specification.… [read]

With the help of Erik Babel, a full game engine list is now detailed in the Android Resources for Application Development knol including both 2D and 3D. Filed under: Android Tagged: Game engine [read]

Linux, for java developers, can support a wide range of tools / applications. Developers and users alike can be just as productive at what they did in windows.… [read]

Tim Bray  in his first Advocate post stated a daily sales figure of 60,000 versus iPhone’s daily 90,000 unit sales figure. Now, remember Apple has had 3 years to get to that 90,… [read]

As with most work places, I use MS Outlook Calendar at work for meetings, calendars, etc. With Outlook 2007 you have capability to categorize each meeting/time block that you have on your calendar.… [read]

This article explains how to use Mule ESB and Apache CXF do build Webservice in a very simple way.… [read]

Explains Java exceptions, the try-catch block, and using a loop and try-catch to validate input. Download source code from http://java.martincarlisle.com. [read]

As with most work places, I use MS Outlook Calendar at work for meetings, calendars, etc. With Outlook 2007 you have capability to categorize each meeting/time block that you have on your calendar.… [read]

There are times when things hurt so much that you feel urged to blog about them once solved. This is one of them.… [read]

Version 2.… [read]

I had a great time at Qcon London last week, it really is one of the more forward thinking conferences out there for the enterprise.… [read]

The company I work for have been slow approving my upgrade license for Intellij Idea so I was forced to choose between going back to the older version or trying out the free open source community… [read]

IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report.  The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US, especially in India,… [read]

From the SQLJet site: “SQLJet is an independent pure Java implementation of a popular SQLite database management system.… [read]

After a quick introduction to Spring Batch and Integration,… [read]

Product Description While the REST design philosophy has captured the imagination of web and enterprise developers alike, using this approach to develop real web services is no picnic.… [read]

Almost twenty years ago Scientific American posted an article of Xerox PARC. Its authors were thinking about the future technology and decided the next stage of it will be the ubiquitous computers.… [read]

Open MQ provides a broad range of functionalities in security, high availability, performance management and tuning, monitoring, multiple language support,… [read]

MuleSoft's cloud service offering of Apache Tomcat container, called CloudCat, provides a virtual image that allows developers and QA teams to build and test web applications in the cloud environment.… [read]

In 2006, I wrote a three-part article on the future of Java (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) in which I discussed open source, Java's use in consumer devices,… [read]

A female eastern screech owl visited my nest box this morning. I noticed the visit entirely by chance around 3:15 AM, and she stayed another 20 minutes,… [read]

I've spent a bit of time working with Les recently and it's been quite interesting working out the best way for us to pair together as he's working as a front end developer on the team which means… [read]

UX specialist Anthony Colfelt presents a case for how agile, alone, might not be sufficient and a thorough and engaging look into how User-Centered Design can, and should, be merged with it.… [read]

If you are using MediaWiki as a Wiki you should install the following Extenstions: Extension:Cite Cite is an extension which allows an editor to create footnotes.… [read]

A whoIs Applet that tells you if a server is available/up. It also tells you the IP given the host or the host given the IP. [read]

This 8-minute screencast introduces a new Internet technology called GVision.… [read]

A couple of weeks back, Apache Lucene Committer and PMC member, Michael McCandless started a discussion on factoring out a shared, standalone Analysis package for Lucene, Solr and Nutch.… [read]

Recently, I've been looking into developing for the mobile platform. In particular I wanted to develop an application for the iPhone - it seems to me that if you're going to get a large audience,… [read]

Following up on my earlier post about using custom PropertyEditor implementations to bind association properties I started looking into the options for custom binding one-to-many associations.… [read]

There are times when things hurt so much that you feel urged to blog about them once solved. This is one of them.… [read]

Stephen Colebourne, lead of the JSR 310 Date and Time API, has recently published an Early Draft Review of the proposed additions and changes to the Java language.… [read]

Icefaces partialSubmit and immediate compared Now let’s try something else: We want, next to the « Search » button, another one, « Back to Home »,… [read]

Often times, I hear folks exclaim that they’ve been on “40 development projects over the past 10 years.” Or, “70 projects spanning a 20 year career.” They say this as if it’s some badge of honor.… [read]

This is an example of how you can use the NetBeans Platform's Nodes API, Actions API, and Property Sheet API over a generated EMF model in a NetBeans Platform application. [read]

Most Java web frameworks were designed with MVC in mind; however, JSF is probably one of the only few that achieved the goal. Combining JSF with JBoss Seam and Facelets,… [read]

Disclaimer: Ben and I work for Palm and created this program. I wanted to make sure that you were aware of it over here,… [read]

I'm a software engineer with 3 years of experience developing Windows Mobile applications. I needed a book which is In-Depth - Perhaps one of the most in-depth Android books available.… [read]

Provides access to Cassandra as a service, simplfying its usage. This is not a GORM layer. [read]

If you want to use JSF 2.x on a Tomcat 6.x server you have 2 options, see this short article. [read]

The ‘MapFactoryBean’ object provides developer a way to create a concrete Map collection class (HashMap and TreeMap) in Spring’s bean configuration file.… [read]

Two great posts from my colleagues about why Adobe is using HBase: part 1 and part 2. As I’ve experienced all these firsthand, I guarantee this is solid, relevant information.… [read]

MuleSoft's cloud service offering of Apache Tomcat container, called CloudCat, provides a virtual image that allows developers and QA teams to build and test web applications in the cloud environment.… [read]

Over the course of this series we've been working on a simple image viewer that lets you move and zoom a picture on the screen with touch gestures.… [read]

A few more month passed, and much has happened in the clojure scene. Clojure 1.1.0 was released in 2009-12. The clojure plugin clj-gradle has been renamed to clojuresque and updated to 1.3. Clojars.… [read]

 A session of link hopping caused me to hunt down a program I wrote for the Amiga in 1994. I didn’t really think I would be able to locate it, but once again,… [read]

I went to the first-ever meeting of the New England BlackBerry Developer's group tonight in Cambridge. An official RIM-sponsored group, this Meetup had as speaker Mike Kirkup,… [read]

Author: tossySubject: Push Registry help neededPosted: 17 Mar 10 at 3:29amhttp://developers.sun.… [read]

With version 2.0, Sonar now embarks the seventh and last axis of source code quality : Design & Architecture.… [read]

The last week of winter in the northern hemisphere features three significant Java-related conferences: the Scandinavian Developer Conference (SDC) takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Goteborg,… [read]

HBase, under the Apache Hadoop project, is a distributed, column-oriented storage system that has been modeled after BigTable. There are some usage restrictions,… [read]

Das Solr-Grails-Plug-in integriert ein Grails-Domain-Model mit der Solr-Suchmaschine und ist aktuell in Version 0.1 verf�gbar.… [read]

After running the abridged version of the software architecture for developers course at QCon London on Monday with Simon, I returned for the conference "proper". QCon felt quite diverse this year,… [read]

Being at the beginning of a pipeline processing system over Hadoop, I've come into some integration issues. As not everything is stored into the cluster,… [read]

Google’s Android platform is gaining rapidly in the smartphone platform space. As per comScore which reports trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry,… [read]

We are excited to announce the last milestone on the way to the JRebel 3.0. This release includes the following exciting new features: More EJB Support.… [read]

IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report.�� The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US, especially in India,… [read]

With this blog-entry I want do describe how I got the GR8 Conference websites (notice the plural form) running in one AWS instance via CloudFoundry. The websites are created in Grails.… [read]

With the convenience of NSURLConnection, it is rarely difficult for an app to load data from somewhere on the Internet, especially using simple GET requests. Loading large amounts of data efficiently,… [read]

The last week of winter in the northern hemisphere features three significant Java-related conferences: the Scandinavian Developer Conference (SDC) takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Goteborg,… [read]

American Idol is horribly annoying. The producers are angling for a two-person finale, when realistically only one person has been in the lead since day one,… [read]

David Desandro has developed a newtypeface family named Curtis and done so in an interesting way....… [read]

Thanks to Google App Engine's work with DataNucleus, the GAE users have enjoyed JPA and JDO support.  For its storage system, GAE uses the (NoSQL) Google BigTable implementation.  HBase,… [read]

Show that you will be at GR8 Conf Europe 2010. Add this badge:  To your web-site. You can use this piece of html:   <a href="http://eu.gr8conf.org"> <img sr..… [read]

The J2EE API library (javaee.jar or javaee-api.jar) is not store in the default Maven repository (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/). You need to download it from Java.Net repository. 1. Add Java.… [read]

Did you know there's a new moon tonight? Of course I did, I play nethack. [read]

On March 18 2008 I checked in the first bits of code for Flexmojos.  Two years later, here we are: Flexmojos now provides first-class support for Flex and AIR development within Apache Maven.… [read]

Agenda, Speakers and Presentations on iPhone This year the conference features a new application to show the agenda, presentations and speakers on the iPhone and other iWebtoolkit compliant device..… [read]

The Factory Method is creational Object Oriented design pattern. It is commonly been used in order to create a new instance of an object... [read]

Finding the version of WebSphere Commerce Developer.… [read]

Last weekend, I was supposed to write on chapter 10 for the Camel in Action book, but I got side tracked with the prospect of Camel meeting Elvis.… [read]

Toyota's journey from Waterfall to Lean software development - Henrik Kniberg's blog Guess what.… [read]

How-To: Stop iTunes Web Links From Opening iTunes When can I use...… [read]

This extremely handy plugin for Grails applications makes your data form GSPs DRY by centralizing the rendering and styling of your fields, handling > rendering,… [read]

OpenID for Java Web applications, Part 2: Write an OpenID Provider for single sign-on authentication OpenID for Java Web applications,… [read]

TECHNOLOGY CREATORS… Time to take responsibility “To err is human but to really foul things up you need a computer” quotes Paul Ehrlich.… [read]

Following the example of bit.ly, tinyurl, owl.ly, even coca-cola has joined the short URL bandwagon. Maybe it's because of Twitter,… [read]

SpringSource has released tc Server Spring Edition, which claims to be the best place to build and run Spring applications.… [read]

GlassFish provides extension points for further extending the administration console, CLI, containers, and monitoring capabilities of GlassFish application server in a non-intrusive and modular way. [read]

If you want to use JSF 2.x on a Tomcat 6.x server you have 2 options, see this short article. [read]

This April in Philadelphia there are some exciting events taking place in the open source and enterprise technology communities.  On April 7, 2010 Sonatype will be hosting the Apache Maven Meetup.… [read]

Today’s entry highlights the design of BlackMoonDev.com. A very stylish theme that uses a consistent brown color scheme for background, header and text,… [read]

This morning at TheServerSide Java Symposium I attended James Gosling's keynote. Below are my notes from his talk. The unifying principle for Java is the Network - it ties everything together.… [read]

For all those people who find difficulty in understanding SOAP. It is also for people who want to learn about SOAP The S stands for simple [read]

Earlier this week, I started to play around Unix/Aix. I have to confess: I was very confused with all those commands that are anything intuitive.… [read]

Reproducing a bug is one of the most problematic, "needle in a haystack"-type issues that a software development organization can face.… [read]

Companies are increasingly using a combination of Java and .NET to build and operate enterprise applications.… [read]

An update on how Oracle plans to utilize / integrate Sun technologies. Incidentally Oracle got JRockit from its acquisition of BEA in 2008.… [read]

This year we have a special benefit for Flux Corporation employees. It’s an all-expense paid vacation for two anywhere in the world.… [read]

No one really enjoys reading specs, particularly not JSRs (Java Specification Requests, for those of you who are lucky enough not to have encountered these fun-filled documents).… [read]

Dynamic scripting languages are a powerful addition to a software designer’s toolbox. Rails/Ruby and Python have not gained much acceptance in the enterprise.… [read]

Gorilla Logic has released FlexMonkey 1.0 GA which it claims to be a de facto standard for automated functional testing of Flex applications. After eight months of maturing in a beta status,… [read]

Web Security Dojo is a web application security lab with tools, targets, and training materials built into a Virtual Machine(VM).… [read]

New Relic RPM is an on-demand performance management solution for web applications developed in Java, Ruby, or JRuby.… [read]

Hobo is an open source rapid development toolkit for Ruby on Rails,… [read]

I've spent some time fleshing out the code in the experimental declarative hyperlinking module I blogged about earlier.… [read]

When you look at a typical Groovy stack trace, you usually see something like this: This is not terribly helpful, since there are only three lines from the actual source code.… [read]