http://www.dzone.com/links/users/shared/119725.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:46:40 GMT The DZone community 2008-08-22T04:46:40Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://www.dzone.com/links/feed/user/shared/119725/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/web_development_with_wicket_part_2_reducing_and_r.html Want to build numerous similar Web components without cutting and pasting code? Wicket could be the framework for you. how-to java open source Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:53:52 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/95825.html Peter Stofferis 2008-07-17T10:53:52Z Want to build numerous similar Web components without cutting and pasting code? Wicket could be the framework for you.]]> 95825 2008-07-17T10:53:52Z 3 0 37 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/95825.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/soap_demystified.html Quick review of SOAP to really understand what it is and how it works. General outline with code snippets. web services xml Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:36:21 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/94352.html 99nut 2008-07-13T17:36:21Z Quick review of SOAP to really understand what it is and how it works. General outline with code snippets.]]> 94352 2008-07-11T22:27:42Z 2008-07-13T17:36:21Z 14 0 557 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/94352.jpg 99nut http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/303347.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/truecrypt_version_60_released.html TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one processor available. Furthermore, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating system, so even if you're forced to reveal your pre-boot password to an adversary, you can give surrender a decoy. announcement open source security Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:28:25 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/93230.html normchow 2008-07-08T16:28:25Z TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one processor available. Furthermore, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating system, so even if you're forced to reveal your pre-boot password to an adversary, you can give surrender a decoy.]]> 93230 2008-07-08T00:09:38Z 2008-07-08T16:28:25Z 9 0 174 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/93230.jpg normchow http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/306169.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/xmlrpc_demystified.html 2-minute hands-on approach to XML-RPC: see real code, get real skills. web services xml Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:53:28 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/92427.html 99nut 2008-07-04T11:53:28Z 2-minute hands-on approach to XML-RPC: see real code, get real skills.]]> 92427 2008-07-03T22:36:29Z 2008-07-04T11:53:28Z 14 0 281 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/92427.jpg 99nut http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/303347.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/projectpier_open_source_easy_online_collaboration.html ProjectPier is an open source community aimed at developing simple, powerful and intuitive software for web-based project management and group collaboration. ProjectPier gives you a flexible system for managing projects involving multiple organizations by providing a central place for all project activity and information while integrating with users' existing tools and workflow - all completely FREE. open source tools Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:12:20 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/91679.html Peter Stofferis 2008-07-01T13:12:20Z ProjectPier is an open source community aimed at developing simple, powerful and intuitive software for web-based project management and group collaboration. ProjectPier gives you a flexible system for managing projects involving multiple organizations by providing a central place for all project activity and information while integrating with users' existing tools and workflow - all completely FREE.]]> 91679 2008-07-01T13:12:20Z 1 0 29 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/91679.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/the_benefits_of_a_data_abstraction_layer_for_soa.html Enterprises have complex information structures as a result of evolving applications and databases deployed through the years. In addition to modern databases, environments commonly include mainframes, outdated storage technologies and custom data sources. database java web services xml Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:00:12 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/91667.html Masoud Kalali 2008-07-01T15:00:12Z Enterprises have complex information structures as a result of evolving applications and databases deployed through the years. In addition to modern databases, environments commonly include mainframes, outdated storage technologies and custom data sources.]]> 91667 2008-07-01T12:40:47Z 2008-07-01T15:00:12Z 8 0 156 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/91667.jpg Kalali http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/89352.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_wrapup.html Putting all pitfalls together in one simple 10 item list quickly reveals a grouping of types pitfalls. Number #1 and #2 are both related to organizational aspect. If the culture, mindset and attitude are not right, these are typically the pitfalls that a SOA endeavor may run in to. The next group covers the items #3 till #7, these are all related to architectural/design skills. And the last group, numbers #8 till #10, relates to implementation issues (although proper design could help to prevent these pitfalls from manifesting themselves). how-to web services Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:35:30 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/91195.html Thierry.Lefort 2008-06-30T09:35:30Z Putting all pitfalls together in one simple 10 item list quickly reveals a grouping of types pitfalls. Number #1 and #2 are both related to organizational aspect. If the culture, mindset and attitude are not right, these are typically the pitfalls that a SOA endeavor may run in to. The next group covers the items #3 till #7, these are all related to architectural/design skills. And the last group, numbers #8 till #10, relates to implementation issues (although proper design could help to prevent these pitfalls from manifesting themselves).]]> 91195 2008-06-29T14:28:29Z 2008-06-30T09:35:30Z 7 0 193 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/91195.jpg Thierry.Lefort http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/252611.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/automatic_user_interface_with_openxava_an_evoluti.html This is a story about creating a user interface easily, or better yet, about having good user interfaces without working for them. gui java methodology Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:59:56 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/89826.html Thierry.Lefort 2008-06-24T17:59:56Z This is a story about creating a user interface easily, or better yet, about having good user interfaces without working for them.]]> 89826 2008-06-24T13:18:49Z 2008-06-24T17:59:56Z 9 0 344 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/89826.jpg Thierry.Lefort http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/252611.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/8_useful_collections_of_open_source_apps.html Datamation has a good collection of 75 Popular Open Source Desktop Downloads posted. The products in the list are categorized, and include business applications, operating systems, collaboration tools, and more. Even if you use a lot of open source applications, you'll probably find some new things to try, such as the K-Meleon and Galeon browsers. Here, below the fold, are a few more useful collections of tools and tips to try. open source tools unix-linux web 2.0 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:51:07 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/89734.html normchow 2008-06-24T11:51:07Z Datamation has a good collection of 75 Popular Open Source Desktop Downloads posted. The products in the list are categorized, and include business applications, operating systems, collaboration tools, and more. Even if you use a lot of open source applications, you'll probably find some new things to try, such as the K-Meleon and Galeon browsers. Here, below the fold, are a few more useful collections of tools and tips to try.]]> 89734 2008-06-24T07:37:32Z 2008-06-24T11:51:07Z 15 0 712 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/89734.jpg normchow http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/306169.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_1_ignoring_culture_when_intro.html SOA is an approach. The culture aspect of introducing a SOA is important, but it seems that companies want to invest in tools and not in people. In order of making this SOA to work they force their employees into this new way of thinking/acting. Often this leads to resistance which undermines the SOA goals. In this part we will look into the misuse of a SOA to change a culture. opinion Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:04:35 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/89468.html bloid 2008-06-24T12:04:35Z SOA is an approach. The culture aspect of introducing a SOA is important, but it seems that companies want to invest in tools and not in people. In order of making this SOA to work they force their employees into this new way of thinking/acting. Often this leads to resistance which undermines the SOA goals. In this part we will look into the misuse of a SOA to change a culture.]]> 89468 2008-06-23T11:42:02Z 2008-06-24T12:04:35Z 9 0 147 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/89468.jpg bloid http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/new_free_database_browser_for_database_tests_juni.html Data Storm is a free open source data base browser. While there are millions of data base browsers freely available online, Data Storm is different as it can be launched directly from within your Java code. This enables you to see and modify data that otherwise may not be available to you (e.g. data that will be rolled back) announcement database java open source Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:33:46 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/88124.html kbilsted 2008-06-18T05:33:46Z Data Storm is a free open source data base browser. While there are millions of data base browsers freely available online, Data Storm is different as it can be launched directly from within your Java code. This enables you to see and modify data that otherwise may not be available to you (e.g. data that will be rolled back)]]> 88124 2008-06-17T18:59:28Z 2008-06-18T05:33:46Z 7 0 545 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/88124.jpg kbilsted http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/246188.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/buzzwords_20_what_is_web_20_what_is_ria_what_is_a.html am doing a lot of customer presentations these days, so am getting much "constructive criticism" about the number of confusing buzzwords on the WaveMaker web site. Buzzwords represent job security for entrepreneurs like me who would be practically unemployable were it not for our secret knowledge of the true meaning of words like Web 2.0. ajax java ria web 2.0 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:55:22 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86799.html jsugrue 2008-06-12T18:55:22Z am doing a lot of customer presentations these days, so am getting much "constructive criticism" about the number of confusing buzzwords on the WaveMaker web site. Buzzwords represent job security for entrepreneurs like me who would be practically unemployable were it not for our secret knowledge of the true meaning of words like Web 2.0.]]> 86799 2008-06-12T06:36:00Z 2008-06-12T18:55:22Z 14 0 171 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86799.jpg jsugrue http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/185351.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/exceptions_in_java.html In this article of Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz, we look at exception handling in Java. We start with the history of exceptions, looking back at the precursor of Java, a language called Oak. We see reasons why Thread.stop() should not be used and discover the mystery of the RuntimeException name. We then look at some best practices that you can use for your coding, followed by some worst practices, in the form of exception anti-patterns. how-to java Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:37:49 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86623.html Peter Stofferis 2008-06-11T13:37:49Z In this article of Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz, we look at exception handling in Java. We start with the history of exceptions, looking back at the precursor of Java, a language called Oak. We see reasons why Thread.stop() should not be used and discover the mystery of the RuntimeException name. We then look at some best practices that you can use for your coding, followed by some worst practices, in the form of exception anti-patterns.]]> 86623 2008-06-11T11:28:01Z 2008-06-11T13:37:49Z 33 0 663 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86623.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_3_missing_skills.html Just like any other paradigm, a level of new knowledge and experience is required. Unfortunately, SOA requires lots of new knowledge and experience. It requires a different way of thinking of more or less everyone involved.There should be awareness that there is lack of knowledge, experience and attitude and something should be done about this first. There is no real solution, except for the obvious one: educate everyone involved. Also, agile methodologies have proven to be effective in building up knowledge and experience. opinion web design Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:09:42 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86401.html Peter Stofferis 2008-06-12T10:09:42Z Just like any other paradigm, a level of new knowledge and experience is required. Unfortunately, SOA requires lots of new knowledge and experience. It requires a different way of thinking of more or less everyone involved.There should be awareness that there is lack of knowledge, experience and attitude and something should be done about this first. There is no real solution, except for the obvious one: educate everyone involved. Also, agile methodologies have proven to be effective in building up knowledge and experience.]]> 86401 2008-06-10T13:23:17Z 2008-06-12T10:09:42Z 8 0 176 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86401.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_6_soa_does_not_solve_complexi.html In organizations data and functionality/processes are often fragmented, but are needed centrally. What are the causes of this fragmentation. Does a SOA solve this complexity automatically? Most companies start with a SOA and are confronted with this complexity during the implementation of the SOA. opinion web services Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:17:11 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86398.html Peter Stofferis 2008-06-10T13:17:11Z In organizations data and functionality/processes are often fragmented, but are needed centrally. What are the causes of this fragmentation. Does a SOA solve this complexity automatically? Most companies start with a SOA and are confronted with this complexity during the implementation of the SOA.]]> 86398 2008-06-10T13:17:11Z 3 0 16 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86398.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_8_security.html SOA security is like having a well-protected Middle Ages city, but at the same time asking citizens to permit many more people from inside and outside the city into their homes. They would really have hard time properly securing their belongings. Introduction of SOA should be accompanied by at least SPRINT business impact assessment of security vulnerabilities (confidentiality, data integrity and availability) and definition of required measures. Introduction of SOA also requires rethinking your security architecture. opinion security web services Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:08:21 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86395.html Peter Stofferis 2008-06-10T13:08:21Z SOA security is like having a well-protected Middle Ages city, but at the same time asking citizens to permit many more people from inside and outside the city into their homes. They would really have hard time properly securing their belongings. Introduction of SOA should be accompanied by at least SPRINT business impact assessment of security vulnerabilities (confidentiality, data integrity and availability) and definition of required measures. Introduction of SOA also requires rethinking your security architecture.]]> 86395 2008-06-10T13:08:21Z 3 0 10 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86395.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/operationstate_modeling.html The busy developer's guide to writing service specifications. Operation-state modeling is a technique for writing detailed and consistent service specifications. Learn how to objectively verify the validity of a service implementation by checking its behavior against the operation-state model. how-to Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:51:17 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86386.html Peter Stofferis 2008-06-10T12:51:17Z The busy developer's guide to writing service specifications. Operation-state modeling is a technique for writing detailed and consistent service specifications. Learn how to objectively verify the validity of a service implementation by checking its behavior against the operation-state model.]]> 86386 2008-06-10T12:51:17Z 1 0 6 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86386.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/web_development_with_wicket_part_1_the_state_of_w.html Don't let state become a performance bottleneck in your Java Web applications. Wicket accommodates both stateless and stateful development models, so you can just go with the flow. java open source Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:56:19 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86364.html Peter Stofferis 2008-06-10T21:56:19Z Don't let state become a performance bottleneck in your Java Web applications. Wicket accommodates both stateless and stateful development models, so you can just go with the flow.]]> 86364 2008-06-10T11:06:08Z 2008-06-10T21:56:19Z 17 0 410 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86364.jpg PeterStofferis http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/119725.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_9_versioning.html Version mismatch is one of the growing pains of a SOA. A SOA starts simple, but after a while new versions of services will appear and the complexity will grow. Good life cycle management and supporting tools will help you to control the complexity. how-to methodology web services Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:08:42 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/86096.html Thierry.Lefort 2008-06-09T22:08:42Z Version mismatch is one of the growing pains of a SOA. A SOA starts simple, but after a while new versions of services will appear and the complexity will grow. Good life cycle management and supporting tools will help you to control the complexity.]]> 86096 2008-06-09T09:53:49Z 2008-06-09T22:08:42Z 13 0 358 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/86096.jpg Thierry.Lefort http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/252611.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/wicket_rad_rapid_application_development_with_wic.html Over the past month and a bit, I have spent some time in my spare time distilling some of the most effective practices and lessons learned from a year of using Wicket into an open source framework, which I have (not so) imaginatively named “Wicket RAD”. frameworks java open source server Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:45:19 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/85193.html rick 2008-06-05T11:45:19Z Over the past month and a bit, I have spent some time in my spare time distilling some of the most effective practices and lessons learned from a year of using Wicket into an open source framework, which I have (not so) imaginatively named “Wicket RAD”.]]> 85193 2008-06-05T00:23:26Z 2008-06-05T11:45:19Z 11 0 393 1 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/85193.jpg rick http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/1.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_10_not_invented_here_syndrome.html The first item we want to discuss is the Not Invented Here Syndrome (NIH). Of course this is something that can be witnessed in more areas of IT, but in a SOA context it actually applies on two different levels. First of all, the idea of a SOA is to reuse existing services. If department A builds a get_personal_details service, there's not much point in department B building a get_address service. Assuming the get_personal_details service returns the full address. java tools trends web services Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:34:55 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/84895.html aslamkhn 2008-06-04T16:34:55Z The first item we want to discuss is the Not Invented Here Syndrome (NIH). Of course this is something that can be witnessed in more areas of IT, but in a SOA context it actually applies on two different levels. First of all, the idea of a SOA is to reuse existing services. If department A builds a get_personal_details service, there's not much point in department B building a get_address service. Assuming the get_personal_details service returns the full address.]]> 84895 2008-06-04T05:08:11Z 2008-06-04T16:34:55Z 12 0 195 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/84895.jpg aslamkhn http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/276360.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_4_incorrectly_applied_canonic.html CDM is one of the silver bullets often fired in SOA projects. It should address miscommunication, ease integration and reduce integration costs. It surely can facilitate all of this, but attempts to use a CDM can also turn your SOA project into an endless discussion because one attempts to cover too much, because of a lack of alignment with business and because of a lack of design principles. methodology server web services Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:58:09 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/84496.html rick 2008-06-02T15:58:09Z CDM is one of the silver bullets often fired in SOA projects. It should address miscommunication, ease integration and reduce integration costs. It surely can facilitate all of this, but attempts to use a CDM can also turn your SOA project into an endless discussion because one attempts to cover too much, because of a lack of alignment with business and because of a lack of design principles.]]> 84496 2008-06-02T15:58:09Z 5 0 18 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/84496.jpg rick http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/1.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/pattern_based_development_with_mule_20.html The first of two articles that will try to demystify the discussion between a Java Business Integration (JBI) based ESB implementation (Apache ServiceMix) and a custom developed ESB implementation (Mule). frameworks java Wed, 28 May 2008 15:13:18 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/83480.html geertjan 2008-05-28T15:13:18Z The first of two articles that will try to demystify the discussion between a Java Business Integration (JBI) based ESB implementation (Apache ServiceMix) and a custom developed ESB implementation (Mule).]]> 83480 2008-05-28T13:09:18Z 2008-05-28T15:13:18Z 21 0 251 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/83480.jpg geertjan http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/250147.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/top_10_soa_pitfalls_5_big_design_up_front.html Like the Not Invented Here syndrome we discussed earlier, Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is something not only witnessed within the realm of SOA. However, where the NIH syndrome is generally accepted to be a bad thing, things are not that simple when it comes to BDUF. opinion server web services Mon, 26 May 2008 18:33:31 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/83037.html rick 2008-05-26T18:33:31Z Like the Not Invented Here syndrome we discussed earlier, Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is something not only witnessed within the realm of SOA. However, where the NIH syndrome is generally accepted to be a bad thing, things are not that simple when it comes to BDUF.]]> 83037 2008-05-26T18:33:31Z 5 0 21 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/83037.jpg rick http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/1.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/discover_apache_sling_in_15_minutes.html The Sling Launchpad is a ready-to-run Sling configuration, providing an embedded JCR content repository and web server, a selection of Sling components, and documentation and examples. The Launchpad makes it easy to get started with Sling and to develop script-based applications. java open source trends Wed, 21 May 2008 01:21:26 GMT http://www.dzone.com/links/81872.html attollos 2008-05-21T01:21:26Z The Sling Launchpad is a ready-to-run Sling configuration, providing an embedded JCR content repository and web server, a selection of Sling components, and documentation and examples. The Launchpad makes it easy to get started with Sling and to develop script-based applications.]]> 81872 2008-05-20T08:50:21Z 2008-05-21T01:21:26Z 9 0 391 0 http://www.dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/81872.jpg attollos http://www.dzone.com/links/images/avatars/258168.gif