Daily del.icio.us for Jul 29, 2007 through Jul 30, 2007

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Vinny

10 things I learned about using Hibernate/JPA successfully by SpencerUresk – I decided to share a few things I learned about using Hibernate/JPA in a large project with a complicated database setup
OpenJPA no longer requires bytecode processing – Historically, OpenJPA required that you either run a post-compilation tool or run your application with a javaagent. The latest build of OpenJPA removes this restriction by providing various levels of support for unenhanced classes.
Google Docs vs. the Hassle of Microsoft Office and Friends (by Jeremy Zawodny) – I’m simply not going to bother with the hassle, trouble, expense, and complexity of desktop applications when an online substitute will do the job anymore. Life’s too short already.
Java EE 5 Blueprints (JPA) – The Java BluePrints projects presents guidelines and examples for designing enterprise quality applications and web services using Java technologies. Topics Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 applications, Persistence, JavaServer Faces, SOA with BPEL, and WS-Security.
Agile Ajax: 36 GWT Tutorials – While the excellent GWT in Action was released last month, there are lots of people that want to get their feet wet before plunking down $50 for a book. To that end, I’ve pulled together all of the GWT tutorials I’m aware of.
Javablog » Tips for writing FaceBook applications in Java – So you want to write a FaceBook application using Java? Here are some tips to help get you started
How to build a breadcrumb with Spring Webflow 1.0.4 – In this tutorial we explain how to create a simple breadcrumb with the new Spring Webflow framework, arrived at 1.0.4 version, released the 26 June 2007.
Gorilla Codes » Blog Archive » 3 Useful CSS background-image Tricks – The background-image and its related properties exemplify this school of thought, enabling many techniques that extend the boundaries of what is possible with the browser technology of today.
Interview with James Ward: Flex from a Java Perspective – O’Reilly ONJava Blog – I recently had a chance to talk to James Ward about Adobe Flex. I started out by asking him about Cairngorm The Cairngorm Microarchitecture is a lightweight yet prescriptive framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development.
Flex Friday Feature – Datagrid Component – The datagrid component is one of the most versatile and used UIComponents in the flex environment. After this tutorial you should have a good grasp on how to use the datagrid component and what can be done with it.
Java Web Services, Part 3: Axis2 Data Binding – This article shows you how to use these different data bindings with Axis2 and explains why you might prefer one over the others for your application.

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 22, 2007 through Jul 26, 2007

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Vinny

Apache CXF: Interview with Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown – O’Reilly ONJava Blog – I recently had a chance to sit down with both Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown of Envoi Solutions to discuss the merger of XFire and IONA?s Celtix project into a new project, Apache CXF, currently under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation.
Easy Ajax using Struts 2 – Kb – Struts 2 makes it easy to implement and test an Ajax Java Web application, using standard javascript frameworks such as Prototype. This wiki article gives technical notes on how to kickstart your Ajax Java development.
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally « – Let?s look at 12 ways Facebook can benefit the web worker, particularly those who are home-based. The more connected you are to your co-workers and clients without being intrusive, the better your working relationship.
AJAX Magazine: YSlow Helps You Speed up your web pages – Yahoo! released an excellent performance utility on YDN called YSlow, to help you understand why your pages are slow. YSlow is a Firebug addon
Agile Ajax: Review of GWT in Action – The book does cover many of the new features in GWT 1.4, such as Image Bundling, the new loading mechanism, and the Serializable vs IsSerializable changes. As I’ve said, overall a fine effort.
High Performance WordPress Presentation « Barry on WordPress – The slides from the HyperDB and High Performance WordPress presentation are now online via SlideShare
Web page to PDF Firefox extension – LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software
Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups – With businesses and families spread out more and more, we?ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page
InfoQ: Presentation: Introduction to Component Based Architecture – Mark Miller delivered an introduction to Component Based Architecture. In this presention he shares tips and tricks focused on maximizing the development strength of your team
InfoQ: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate – ETags are used in conjunction with the “If-None-Match” header on a GET request to take advantage of the browser cache. Because the server generated the ETag in the first place, it can use it later to determine if the page has changed.
InfoQ: Bridging the gap between BI & SOA – To summarize, implementing a BI solution by using EDA and SOA is superior to using traditional ETL. Not only do we get our basic BI, but we actually get better, real-time BI?not to mention improvement in the overall quality of our SOA.
How risk management affects agile approaches | confused of calcutta – Once you switch focus from content to process, agile techniques don?t stand a chance. Agile in a ‘content’ perspective leads to the Baconian ‘A man that starts with doubts shall end in certainties’; … These two positions are polar opposites
Json-lib 2.0 released – I’m pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.0 has been released. JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 21, 2007 through Jul 22, 2007

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Vinny

Web page to PDF Firefox extension – LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software
Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups – With businesses and families spread out more and more, we?ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page
InfoQ: Presentation: Introduction to Component Based Architecture – Mark Miller delivered an introduction to Component Based Architecture. In this presention he shares tips and tricks focused on maximizing the development strength of your team
InfoQ: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate – ETags are used in conjunction with the “If-None-Match” header on a GET request to take advantage of the browser cache. Because the server generated the ETag in the first place, it can use it later to determine if the page has changed.
InfoQ: Bridging the gap between BI & SOA – To summarize, implementing a BI solution by using EDA and SOA is superior to using traditional ETL. Not only do we get our basic BI, but we actually get better, real-time BI?not to mention improvement in the overall quality of our SOA.
How risk management affects agile approaches | confused of calcutta – Once you switch focus from content to process, agile techniques don?t stand a chance. Agile in a ‘content’ perspective leads to the Baconian ‘A man that starts with doubts shall end in certainties’; … These two positions are polar opposites
Json-lib 2.0 released – I’m pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.0 has been released. JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans
Active Directory Explorer v1.0 – Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can it to navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit etc.
tecosystems » The RedMonk IT Report: Thanks Zimbra, Hello Google Apps – With only a week?s usage under our belt, it?s far too early to render a full verdict on Google Apps, but thus far I?m impressed.
Getting Started with ICEfaces in WebLogic Workshop – ICEsoft’s ICEfaces framework provides a way to Ajax-enable standard JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications without writing custom client-side Javascript code

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 20, 2007

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Vinny

BEA Launches Web 2.0-Style Computing Inside The Enterprise > Enterprise Applications > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions – BEA Systems injected wikis, mashups, and social computing into enterprise computing with the addition to its AquaLogic product line earlier this week of Pages, Ensemble and Pathways
macaroni – ted husted’s blog : Weblog – Since its release in June 2001, Apache Struts (struts.apache.org) has become the most popular web framework for Java. Six years later, by any objective measure, Struts is still Java’s most popular web framework.
Marc Nuri’s Happy Coding Blog » Getting started with JasperReports // Reporting in Java (Part I) – This is the first of a series of articles to get you started with JasperReports. In first place, JasperReports is one of Java’s reporting engines. It’s very powerful and has lots of features that makes it comparable to Crystal Reports.
ActiveObjects: An Easier Java ORM – ActiveObjects is a Java ORM based on the concept of interface proxies. The whole idea behind it is that you shouldn?t have to write any more code than absolutely necessary
Internet Explorer CSS bug fixes (via DZone) – See the solutions to some of the most common HTML/CSS bugs in Internet Explorer, covers margins appearing larger, minimum height, and [if IE] tag fixes, aswell as how to fix the CSS lightbox flash transparency bug

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 15, 2007 through Jul 20, 2007

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Vinny

BEA Launches Web 2.0-Style Computing Inside The Enterprise > Enterprise Applications > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions – BEA Systems injected wikis, mashups, and social computing into enterprise computing with the addition to its AquaLogic product line earlier this week of Pages, Ensemble and Pathways
macaroni – ted husted’s blog : Weblog – Since its release in June 2001, Apache Struts (struts.apache.org) has become the most popular web framework for Java. Six years later, by any objective measure, Struts is still Java’s most popular web framework.
Marc Nuri’s Happy Coding Blog » Getting started with JasperReports // Reporting in Java (Part I) – This is the first of a series of articles to get you started with JasperReports. In first place, JasperReports is one of Java’s reporting engines. It’s very powerful and has lots of features that makes it comparable to Crystal Reports.
ActiveObjects: An Easier Java ORM – ActiveObjects is a Java ORM based on the concept of interface proxies. The whole idea behind it is that you shouldn?t have to write any more code than absolutely necessary
Internet Explorer CSS bug fixes (via DZone) – See the solutions to some of the most common HTML/CSS bugs in Internet Explorer, covers margins appearing larger, minimum height, and [if IE] tag fixes, aswell as how to fix the CSS lightbox flash transparency bug
InfoQ: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald – Keith Donald goes in depth on Spring Web Flow, which solves the problem of orchestrating control navigations within a web application in Spring MVC, Struts, and JSF. Keith talks about how to design workflows in web apps and technical details
Bill Roth’s Blog: ** Workshop 10.1 Available: Workshop and Studio Merged! ** – I am pleased to announce that the code lines BEA Workshop and Workshop Studio have been merged. The result is BEA Workshop 10.1, now available for download

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 14, 2007 through Jul 15, 2007

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Vinny

InfoQ: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald – Keith Donald goes in depth on Spring Web Flow, which solves the problem of orchestrating control navigations within a web application in Spring MVC, Struts, and JSF. Keith talks about how to design workflows in web apps and technical details
Bill Roth’s Blog: ** Workshop 10.1 Available: Workshop and Studio Merged! ** – I am pleased to announce that the code lines BEA Workshop and Workshop Studio have been merged. The result is BEA Workshop 10.1, now available for download
Grepping your web logs – I?m Mike – With the help of a few common unix filters, you can quickly gauge how things are going on your site. These commands work with Apache, or Apache compatible log files, and can probably be tweaked to work with other log file formats pretty easily.
Enterprise Java Community: Binding XML to Java – Manipulating XML data easily and efficiently in Java remains an important problem. Numerous approaches to XML binding exist in the industry, including DOM, JAXB, XML Beans, Castor, SDO and so on
23 Programming Languages compared through their Amazon book sales – The Amazon sales rank allows us to compare the success of books representative of each language, and indirectly compare the popularity of the languages themselves.

Daily del.icio.us for Jul 06, 2007

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Vinny

Dev2Dev Editor’s Blog: New Products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble – The new AquaLogic products: AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways and AquaLogic Ensemble, are all now available for download
XHAB: Xavier Hanin’s Blog: Top 10 reasons why you should try Wicket – If you haven’t already tried Wicket so far, here are my top ten reasons why you should
Full text search with Apache Lucene – I?m Mike – Apache Lucene is a high-performance, feature-rich text search engine written in Java. A sub-project called Solr wraps Lucene in a simple web service layer, making it simple to use from any language.
framework – Google Code – To begin with, focus is on JavaScript frameworks. Files are compressed using Dojo Shrinksafe, then packed using Dean Edwards Packer, and finally Google gzip the file. As a result, we get beautifully small file sizes.
Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript – For popular libraries like Prototype and Dojo there is a huge benefit from serving cached and compressed JavaScript from Google?s servers.

Daily del.icio.us for Jun 27, 2007 through Jul 06, 2007