Maven repository for Java EE 5 APIs
Those who use Maven for their project may be happy to hear that a Maven repository for the Java EE 5 APIs has been opened. For more info, see …
Category: Web/Java
Using jQuery, the jQuery Form plugin and Stripes to create pretty Javascript and Java
I recently discovered jQuery, it a blazingly fast Javascript-framework and has a very compact notation. Now some guy made a plugin to submit plain html forms with Ajax and …
Javapolis 2006 – Building Sexy Web apps with Flex
Last year I attended the Flex presentation by Waldo Smeets and played with the beta. I even gave a presentation and workshop about Flex at Amis, so there was …
Javapolis 2006 – Lab OpenOffice.org API
Today my colleagues Wouter van Reeven and Ruben Boer hosted a lab about the OpenOffice.org Api. Regarding the timing it was very well attended. At the same time was …
Javapolis 2006
I had a smooth drive to Antwerp. Not much traffic and metropolis is easy to reach from the motorway. After my pass was cut and stamped I was in …
In five years, Java EE will be the CORBA of the 21st Century.
Doemscenario voor de toekomst van Java? In five years, Java EE will be the CORBA of the 21st Century. People will look at it and say, ‘It had its …
Connecting to an EJB 3.0 Remote SessionBean from Tomcat
At home I have a few machines running several services that have my interest: an Apache HTTPD server, Tomcat 5.5 and Oracle XE. Both Apache and Tomcat run on …
Unit testing with XFire – How to test your SOAP server with a WSDL file
XFire is a java SOAP framework. Of course there is Axis, but I think XFire can replace Axis. Axis is quite a good framework, but I think XFire is …
Spring 2.0 in Oracle JDeveloper
On Oracle OTN Shay Shmeltzer has written an article that explains how to use the Spring framework within JDeveloper and how to best setup JDeveloper for Spring 2.0. Interface21 …
Meta Data Driven User Interface with Dojo and Spring MVC
What I mean with a meta data driven user interface is an application whose appearance and behavior is managed by a special set of data that is stored in …
KC Web en Java: de OpenOffice.org Java API
Op donderdag 10 augustus presenteerde ik het KC Web en Java over de OpenOffice.org Java API. Klik hier om de presentatie te bekijken (ja, in Powerpoint formaat omdat ik …
The OpenOffice.org presentation I gave at J-Spring 2006
On June 15, 2006, the Netherlands Java Users Group (NL-JUG) organised the J-Spring 2006 Java Conference. During this conference I gave a presentation about the OpenOffice.org Java API. Have …
J-Fall Call for papers
Op 11 oktober 2006 vindt de J-Fall, de najaarsconferentie van de NL-JUG plaats. De conferentie zal worden gehouden in de Reehorst in Ede. De Deadline voor deze CFP is …
Getting started with Lucene 2.0 A powerful java search engine
July 23, 2006
Databases, Java, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java, XML
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Lucene is a text search engine written in Java. It’s very easy to use (for both developers and users) and fast. The creator of Lucene (Doug Cutting) started with …
Connecting to a webservice from an ADF application using JDeveloper 10.1.2
In the Netherlands, the addresses of houses are uniquely defined by their postal code and house number (is this correct English?). One of our customers wanted to have the …
Open Source Portals and Content Management: Joomla!
Joomla! is open source portal software and content management software in one. The software is easy to install and highly customizable.
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part III : starting OpenOffice.org with jars not in the OOo install dir
One of the first things OOo developers learn is to make sure the juh.jar, jurt.jar, ridl.jar, sandbox.jar and unoil.jar files should be on the classpath and should be in …
Mastering EJB3.0 – Free PDF Book Download
July 18, 2006
Databases, IT, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Tools, Web/Java
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Theserverside is offering a free copy of Mastering EJB3.0. Published in July 2006, the best selling book Mastering EJB is now in its fourth edition and has been updated …
Configuring a (Oracle) datasource on Glassfish
With Java EE 5 being final, application servers need to be upgraded to support features like EJB 3.0. In some cases, loading the Java EE 5 jars may be …
Using Lucene with Spring Introduction to Spring Modules
June 26, 2006
Databases, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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While preparing a Lucene presentation and workshop I came across Spring Modules. It’s a small set of libraries that does things the Spring-way. It isn’t included in Spring because …
Modify Spring Beans and Log4j levels on a running server with JMX and JConsole
JMX (Java Management Extensions) is around for quite a while. But since Java 1.5 the JDK is bundled with JConsole, a JMX client, which will hopefully boost the popularity …
Printf and scanf in java new String formatting features in Java 1.5
printf is probably the best known function in C. I did some programming in C and I didn’t really like it (because I started with C after quite some …
ADF Faces for MyFaces is now called Trinidad
June 12, 2006
Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Earlier this year Oracle donated their JSF UI components from ADF Faces to the Apache Software Foundation. Since ADF is more than a set of UI components it was …
Pitfalls in Internet Explorer “ How to cover them up or walk around them
I recently had to do a lot of Javascript and CSS scripting for a project. I have some experience with Javascript and CSS and know how to work around …
JavaOne 2006 has started – get the hand-outs for the presentations now
Even when you are not in San Fransisco right now, JavaOne2006 will be on your mind somehow. Or if it is not, as a Java Developer it probably should …
Advanced Javascript debugging with FireBug and analyzing your page with View Source Chart
FireBug is a debug tool that integrates with FireFox. You can change the DOM-tree, do logging, analyze AJAX-traffic, have advanced error reporting and probably some things I haven’t found …
It's a Chameleon! About JSF Pages that change their appearance mid-flight (or: programmatic manipulation of JSF UI Components)
One of the features in Java Server Faces that distinguishes it from for example JSP technology, is the ability to access UI Components programmatically, at run-time. This makes it …
AJAX validation with Spring without changing any java-code
Recent changes in the EJB 3.0 Persistence specification (that invalidated my code)
While preparing for a workshop on the EJB 3.0 Persistence API that I will present later today, I decided – against all the instructions in demo-school and presentation-college – …
Joyful Successor to Forms – Introduction to JSF (Java Server Faces) and ADF Faces
May 4, 2006
Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Developing Web Applications using Java/J2EE technology has not been a picnic over the last few years. It was often hard work, complex, not very productive and the results were …
Writing your own Eclipse plugin: How to show the blog headlines in Eclipse
Writing a plugin for Eclipse sounds scary and difficult. A few years ago I had to do a project with some other students for school. The project was writing …
Resizing images in Java using Java2D
Last friday a customer asked us if we knew how to resize images in java. Their clients are uploading images that need to be resized automatically. In the past …
Software Deploying using ANT
Some time ago a customer of AMIS asked me to setup the automatic deployment of the software for their application. Till then this was done manually, took an awful …
Better Builds With Maven – Free book about Maven 2
April 27, 2006
Book reviews and Publications, IT, Java, Software Engineering, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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When I was browsing through some articles on JRoller I found this interesting free book. As far as I know this is the first book about Maven 2. There …
Parsing RSS and Atom with ROME, easier is impossible
ROME is a java library to do things with RSS and Atom feeds. Things can be reading, writing, merging and converting. Because RSS and Atom feeds are a standard …
SpringOne conference
Op 15 en 16 juni aanstaande wordt de SpringOne conferentie gehouden in Antwerpen. Dit is de eerste Europese conferentie die specifiek op het Spring Framework betrekking heeft. Het evenement …
Oracle and resilvering on AIX
Oracle and resilvering data on Mirrored Logical Volumes on AIX How to set up your storage with regards to Mirror Write Consistency Suppose you have or plan to implement an …
SOA and Email in action – Starting a BPEL process instance by sending an email with XML content- on decoupled interaction between web-site and back office
In what is to become a series of articles illustrating a full blown business case for a Conference Registration Processing process implemented using Oracle BPEL PM, this is the …
Getting started with Cobertura – A Java Code Coverage Tool
Cobertura a coverage tool. A coverage tool shows how many lines of code are touched. In most cases you’ll use Cobertura to see how good your regressions test are. …
KC Advanced Java
The last KC Web and Java session was titled ‘Advanced java’. During that session we got presentations and workshops on four subjects: annotations, threads, introspection/reflection and generics.