Category: News
New Look Java Magazine
The official Java magazine from Oracle has received a new look in the form of switching from a heavy PDF based production to a more responsive single page HTML publication. This is fantastic news for the many mobile readers from both a data usage and presentation perspective. As per their issue archives page, it seems […]
Continue Reading...Microsoft Open Sources .Net But Is It Enough?
Microsoft has announced it has open sourced the server side elements of .net as well as making parts of .net cross platform.
Continue Reading...Java 8 features key to adoption
A new report by Typesafe indicates two thirds of developers plan on adopting Java 8 within the next year, with most of them aiming to adopt within 6 months. New versions of Java have always been slow to gain adoption among both developers and to a larger extent, the public. This has often led to […]
Continue Reading...Google is just looking out for the folks
I noticed this little nugget in the Google Analytics FAQ : Due to user privacy concerns, Google Analytics doesn’t report on personally identifiable information, including a visitor’s IP address. Is this the same Google that will take a picture of you in your own home from 20 feet away, post it online, and tell you […]
Continue Reading...JBoss 6.0.0 M5 Has Been Released
It looks like JBoss 6.0 milestone 5 has just been released. Not that anyone would know it since they haven’t announced it anywhere, I just saw Aslak Knutsen tweet it. Dan Allen also posted slides from his JavaOne presentation on Weld and the future of Seam.
Continue Reading...Demo Application Using JSF, JPA, CDI with Jetty
The previous version of the Knappsack Maven Archetypes included archetypes for creating projects using JSF, JPA, CDI and Bean Validation that can run in a servlet container such as Jetty or Tomcat. In order to put it through its paces I decided to create a little test social bookmarking application that lets users create accounts, […]
Continue Reading...Try Java EE 6 without the commitment
The latest version of the Knappsack Maven Archetypes now supports creating Java EE 6 applications for servlet containers. These projects includes configuration for core Java EE 6 technologies such as JSF, CDI, JPA and Bean Validation and can be run from the command line using the embedded Jetty and Tomcat servlet containers. Also with this […]
Continue Reading...Knappsack Archetypes are now in the Maven Central Repository
I have finally got around to putting the Mavan Java EE 6 Archetypes into the Maven Central Repository. This means you no longer have to manually download and install the Archetypes, they should be available for you to use out of the box. In some cases, depending on how you are creating your projects, you […]
Continue Reading...See Java EE 6 in action
I’ve just released a new project called Knappsack which is a set of Maven archetypes for Java EE 6. In addition to the usual starter projects, these archetypes provide complete example applications so you can see the features of JEE 6 and play around with it without having to butcher existing demo applications.
Continue Reading...FlutterCode.com released
I’ve been fairly quiet over the last couple of months as I’ve been working on a few items, working on a new site and working on getting two new Open Source projects final and out the door. I’ve renamed Spigot to DataValve, and moved it to the new site FlutterCode.com which will also host my […]
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