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Jesse Davis explains many of the JDBC development pitfalls he's come across in production environments.  Davis also recommends some best practices, such as paying attention to your metadata.  Don't get stuck with accidental architecture, Davis says, think about it beforehand. Embed Tag:  <embed...

Reza Rahman, author of EJB 3 in Action, takes us through the concept of a CDI conversation, in this fourth part of his multi-part series on Java EE 6 and Dependency Injection.

A company operates their primary line of business application in a highly automated environment. One where it is as likely that the client for for the middle tier is python or perl script as a browser based application. In the past they had made the mistake of creating a separate facade for each sort of client. PHP for the web application, perl and python libraries each hitting the database and reproducing any required business logic. It's not hard to imagine the problems this led to.

Learn to hack jQuery CouchApps -- p2p web applications that can be deployed anywhere there's a CouchDB.

The focus of this release has been Stability and Performance improvements and complete move to JSR 309 for Media Control. come and check it out !

Cloud computing is really hot topic now. The promise of no capital investment in to computing infrastructure and paying for only what you actually use is really big thing. More and more companies (especially startups and small entities) either consider or already moving their projects on to a cloud. And of course Amazon EC2 is pioneer and real leader on this space.

Java EE Security refcard is available for download. This refcard covers Java EE 6 security and discuss how each application server supports the specs. The refcard covers authentication, authorization, and transport security in Web Application, EJB application and web services by introducing the concept and the related annotations and deployment descriptors which help us realize the...

I found out about Architexa last week, a really useful tool for generating UML diagrams from your existing code. I see huge potential in this tool for helping out with code reviews, or for getting into a new code base. I had the chance to speak to Vineet Sinha to find out more about the tool and how it works. James: Hi Vineet, could you give us some background into your motivation for creating...

Never heard of it? You are not alone! There are loads of developers out there who don't even know the platform exists. I stumbled on it myself by chance (basically because it is known in FileMaker circles as THE challenger and my company is doing some FileMaker development... yes, I know!). In fact it is a lot more than a FileMaker clone and it certainly has a lot of potential to seduce most Java...

Here is the second part of the CAFE fundamentals blog series. This time, I am explaining two important interfaces called Communication and UserProcedure with an example. James Sugrue

More than one year ago, I blogged about pages load time and Jawr. Since then, either my projects were intranet applications where load time was not an issue or we had no say in the tools used. So, I had no possibility to use any of the tools I found then. James Sugrue

After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's scathing comments criticizing the (mis)management of Sun Microsystems, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had only one thing to say when a New York Times reporter asked him to comment: “Larry Ellison is a completely flawless, lovely man,” said Schwartz.  While it doesn't address any of Ellison's criticisms, it does add an oddly humorous tone to the...

It's no secret that some developers in the Java community are doubting whether or not closures in Java 7 will be ready by the deadline this year.  Over the weekend, Brian Goetz, a Senior Engineer at Oracle working on Java 7, posted a document suggesting that some work be done on Java's aging Collection interfaces before closures are added.  Goetz believes that adding closures without extending...

Free to download under the AGPL license today is eXo Platform's new eXo Social 1.0, a software package based on OpenSocial.  It allows developers and IT organizations to "own" the move to enterprise social networks, unlike the simplistic packages that let business managers run the software.  eXo Social comes bundled with GateIn 3 and Tomcat 6 to run out of box.

The performance benchmark framework for ESBs used by multiple vendors since June 2007 is now ready for use by any average ESB user on local hardware or on Amazon EC2

Tumbler is a tool that helps in communication between business and developers. A new version has just been released.

YourKit, LLC glad to announce immediate availability of YourKit Java Profiler 9.0

Today's pattern is the Composite pattern, which comes into play when developing a system where a component could either be an individual object or a representation of a collection of objects.