Category: Java
Long expected, finally there: NetBEans 5.0 RC1 has been released. See http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/index.htmlfor more info on this fine IDE.
We have been using JIRA for our Incident Management the last six months or so, and one of the UI features in JIRA that suddenly struck me as being …
EJB 3.0 Persistence is hot and coming. The fact that persistence is handled the same way, in and outside the EJB container, for Web Applications, Java Client applications and …
EJB QL or Enterprise Java Beans Query Language has been introduced in the EJB 2.0 Specification, back in 2001. For some reason, it never grew on me. I did …
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
Another side of the software engineering coin is about the development process. The popularity of agile development is growing and therefore deserved the prominent attention at javapolis. Scott Ambler …
The proper way to start OC4J is sparsely documented by Oracle: To start OC4J in a standalone environment, issue the following command from the j2ee/home/ directory: java -jar …
In the wake of my last post – Getting started with Java Server Faces (JSF) using Apache MyFaces – in JDeveloper 10.1.3EA – I will continue my explorations of …
Seen so much, heard so much, read so much: time to actually do a little with Apache MyFaces. I am using the blog article by Jonas Jacobi as my …
One of the annotations available to us when specifying the EJB 3.0 Persistence metadata for our Entities is the @Version annotation. The specification states: “The Version annotation specifies the …
I have done a fair bit of Entity Relationship Modeling. It’s one of the things I probably like most about my job. And one of the things in ERD …
In an earlier post, we embarked on a tour of EJB 3.0 Persistence for J2SE (stand alone out-of-container) applications: Getting Started with EJB 3.0 Persistence out-of-container using the Reference …
A few weeks ago I visited the second and third conference day of JavaPolis in Antwerpen. I haven’t been to JavaPolis before, and I was excited to see how …
As Frank Nimphius pointed out in his blog, a JDeveloper group has been started at Frappr. Come out and show yourself with a photo and your (current) location on …
Project Raptor, announced and demonstrated at Oracle Open World, this Fall, has now been released (sort of, as it is still an early adopter release). A free download (60Mb) …
In a previous article –Getting Started with EJB 3.0 Persistence out-of-container using the Reference Implementation (GlassFish) – I have introduced GlassFish, the official Reference Implementation for EJB 3.0, and …
In this article I will report on my very first steps with EJB 3.0 Persistence in a J2SE application – that is: outside the context of the J2EE Container. …
Some of my colleagues have posted their comments to JavaPolis 2005 on our weblog already. See the AMIS Technology blog for these weblog entries. I’ll add my comments to …
As a first recap of my five days at Javapolis, here are my thoughts on trends, past, present and future of the Java platform. Expect to see more in-depth …
Just browsing through my RSS feeds-reader, I stumbled across three very interesting announcements: JSR-220, the Enterprise JavaBean 3.0 specification, has reached Proposed Final Draft status. Programmers should expect that …
While EJB 3.0 persistence gains a lot of attention we should not forget that EJB is more than persistence but also contains session beans and messaging driven beans. Mike …
Since SOA is hot, many presentations were devoted to differents aspects of services. The adoptation of services is growing rapidly. This requires standarization in the way we handle services …
Many frameworks offer support for developing web applications. Allmost all of them implement the MVC pattern. They can be divided into two groups: action based and component based frameworks. …
We just received word about the results from the RAD race at JavaPolis 2005. 12 teams competed against each other, each bringing its favourite technology stack. It is a …
Selenium, a test-tool for Web Applications, was the subject of one of the quicky presentations (15 minutes max) on JavaPolis this week. It is described as: Selenium is a …
JavaPolis, the major Java conference currently going on in Antwerp, Belgium, has multiple parallel tracks most of the time. Four or more sessions to choose from. So you cannot …
There are some major waves in J(2)EE territory captivating much of the focus of the audience at this year’s JavaPolis – and beyond. One undoubtedly is Java Server Faces. …
JavaPolis 2005 is in town. Well, not my town, it is actually in Antwerp in Belgium. It is the largest conference on Java/J2EE technology in Europe, with this year …
A big announcement today at the first day of JavaPolis 2005, the biggest Java event east of the Atlantic: Oracle will donate its ADF Faces technology to the Open …
The lastest session of the KC Web and Java focussed on what we call knowledge areas. Everybody got about ten minutes to present his/her subject and to share his/her …
Need the source and/or the Javadoc of a java library? Try http://www.jsourcery.com/. It contains the clickable source of many libraries and applications, like Spring, Apache (Commons), JUnit, ActiveMQ etc. …
Next week, we are off to Antwerp. A crew of seven AMIS Java/J2EE developers will visit JavaPolis, the largest Java/J2EE conference on this side of the Atlantic. I will …
The requirement my customer has: create a nice web application that will allow our company to manage our contacts and stores them in a database. While you’re at it, …
JHeadstart can generate a number of powerful search facilities, such as the Quick Search widget and Advanced Search area. It supports several different serach operators such as contains, like, …
In this article I will demonstrate how I implemented a fairly complex requirement from one of my customers in a very real Java/J2EE Web Application. This requirement involved a …
In my free time, I spend a lot of time creating small and large applications that use Swing components. In a recent attempt to create cleaner and better code …
As of now, JHeadstart 10.1.2.2 is available from http://cso.oracle.com – for organisations who have the JHeadstart Supplement Option. I have recently been making fixes and extensions to JHeadstart Application …
After the announcement of Oracle XE I got really curious about the possibilities of a free Oracle10g database. OK, it is limited to 4GB and it doesn’t allow things like …
Triggered by Steve Muench’s weblog, I stumbled across a recent posting by the JHeadstart Team on their current and future activity: The Future of JHeadstart. The big news of …
Validation of business rules, of data oriented business logic, is one of my favorite recurring challenges. Around these rules, there are always interesting discussions about how and especially where …