Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Grails 1.0 and JRuby on Rails on WebSphere

A couple of interesting things happened today that relate to my Grails vs. Rails quest for knowledge. The first is that Grails 1.0 was released. This was...

2 replies - 3606 views - 02/06/08 by Matt Raible in News

Apache Wicket 1.3.1: Now with clustering

Apache Wicket 1.3.1 is released! The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the availability of the first maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.1. A lot of...

0 replies - 4106 views - 02/05/08 by Martijn Dashorst in News

Unit testing JSF applications

I recently blogged about unit testing Spring-MVC applications, which is made a lot easier by the mock classes that come with the framework. Last time I was...

1 replies - 2054 views - 02/04/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs

In praise of Maven site generation

People often complain about the size, quality and speed (or lack thereof) of the maven site generation. However, I beg to differ. I love the visibility that...

0 replies - 1957 views - 02/03/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs

Unit testing your Spring-MVC applications

Spring-MVC might use the old MVC model rather than the more recent component-based approachs. It doesn't come with lots of AJAX-based components. It doesn't...

0 replies - 19971 views - 02/03/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs

A new GC for Java 7

Jon Masamitsu wrote up a great post summarizing the current collectors in the Sun JDK and also how combinations of these young and old collectors are triggered...

0 replies - 4913 views - 02/02/08 by Alex Miller in News

Vote for OSGi integration with Java Modules

Glyn Normington posted that a sunbug has been created to track OSGi support in JSR 277 (Java Modules). You can vote for the bug if you would like to see this...

2 replies - 3307 views - 01/31/08 by Alex Miller in News

Lightweight meets Heavyweight: Spring, Groovy and the enterprise

As I am preparing for the 2G conference next month, one of the things I am most struck with is again how seamlessly Groovy and Spring can play together. These...

9 replies - 6301 views - 01/31/08 by John Carnell in News

Maven and Ant - the eternal debate

Howard Lewis Ship recently blogged about his woes with Maven, which has predictably triggered a long and interesting discussion/flame war.I respect Howard a...

10 replies - 4548 views - 01/31/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs

Gosling on Closures

James Gosling decided to state his opinion unambiguously on closures for Java 7. In summary: yes, he wants 'em!

0 replies - 4308 views - 01/31/08 by Alex Miller in News

JPPF Updates Java Grid Computing Toolkit

JPPF, the Java Parallel Processing Framework is a grid computing toolkit for Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their...

0 replies - 1632 views - 01/31/08 by Laurent Cohen in News

GDS Ships FOSS Alternative to Adobe LiveCycle DS

Granite Data Services (GDS) is a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe® LiveCycle® (Flex™ 2+) Data Services for J2EE application servers. It is...

0 replies - 3608 views - 01/31/08 by Franck Wolff in News

Is there room for both Rails and Grails in a company?

For the last week, I've been knee deep learning more about Rails and Grails. The reason is because I think developers (and companies) are going to have a hard...

20 replies - 3866 views - 01/30/08 by Matt Raible in News

Is LINQ leaving Java in the dust?

Interesting story today asking whether LINQ has given .NET an edge over Java. LINQ is best-known as a way to embed SQL-like statements directly in code. ...

3 replies - 9855 views - 01/30/08 by Alex Miller in News

Why are we not using Java EE 5?

Believe it or not, in a few months the Java EE 5 specification will be two years old (Final Release on the 11 May, 2006). And nobody is using it.

19 replies - 15339 views - 01/29/08 by Antonio Goncalves in Articles