Top 10 reasons for moving away from dzone
I used to be a big fan of dzone.com both as a reader and active contributor posting a number of articles, but unfortunately over last few... more »
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Design Patterns Quick Reference
So every time I am designing something new I find myself either searching Google or opening up a gang of four (GoF) book to aid me. I... more »
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The * stupidest things I’ve done in my programming job
I’m not ashamed of those sins any more, so here you go :) 1. Building my own Object Relational Mapping framework. 2. Using an... more »
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Web Development Evolved: Grails 2.0 Released!
After nearly a year in development, we are extremely excited to announce the GA release of Grails 2.0 – the second major revision of the... more »
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What's new in Grails 2.0
Dynamic frameworks like Rails, Django and TurboGears helped pave the way to a more modern way of thinking about web applications. Grails... more »
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Common Java Cookbook
This collection provides expert tips for using Java-based utilities from projects such as Apache Commons, Apache Lucene, and Apache... more »
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Grails: It Just Makes Sense
Why do individuals and companies still say things like “We can't use Grails because we are a Java shop”? Do “Java shops” use Spring?... more »
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Why doesn’t (JPA, JMA, JTA, EJB, JSF, CDI) work? JEE is “Too Complicated”
First, before reading this – you’re going to be upset with me. You’re going to disagree. I know — it’s OK. You may not even believe me,... more »
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For the Love of Vaadin: Java RIAs Done Right
There are lots of Java web frameworks out there, but if you are coming from writing Swing or SWT desktop applications, they all seemed... more »
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Map Reduce: A really simple introduction
Ever since google published its research paper on map reduce, you have been hearing about it. If you have uptil now considered... more »
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RE: Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over
I do have some issues with Cameron's statements that frameworks are mistakes of the J2EE past and that Java EE 6 represents the future.... more »
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Swing can be oh so sweet
If you had any doubts that Swing could deliver truly beautiful apps, then check out Dirk Lemmermann’s latest endeavor below, which is... more »
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Leaving .NET
The .net community operates in a non-collaborative vaccuum. The community is sick, poisoned by the component vendors with closed source... more »
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Java is dead? 9 million devs disagree
Java is not dead…in fact, it’s got more than enough energy to kick your app in the butt. Too often, critics focus on niche issues and... more »
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Grails: The Search Really Is Over (For Now)
... If you don't want to read this entire post I'll summerize now just by saying that Grails is the best thing to happen to Java web... more »
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Hibernate query cache considered harmful?
Over the last few months we’ve had a whole bunch of people doing a whole bunch of Hibernate performance tuning. I’m going to do a few... more »
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Google Collections
Google Collections is a natural evolution from the standard collections API in Java, bringing a much broader range of functionality to... more »
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Guice Impressions from a Spring user
I decided to do a quick investigation of Google’s Guice dependency injection framework. The impetus for this was the recent excitement on... more »
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Gaelyk 1.0 for Google App Engine is out
Gaelyk, the lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine, was just released in version 1.0. The big highlight of this major release... more »
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Real world Java examples of GoF design patterns
You can find an overview of a lot design patterns in Wikipedia. It also mentions which patterns are mentioned by GoF. I'll sum them up... more »
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Terracotta Acquires Quartz
Today Terracotta announced that it had acquired the Quartz job scheduling framework. Quartz is truly a ubiquitous Java open source... more »
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NASA Adopts the NetBeans Platform
Tim Boudreau (pictured, right), Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, recently spent some time with engineers at NASA, showing them... more »
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VMWare Acquires SpringSource for $362 Million
Virtualization infrastructure provider VMware announced today that it will acquire SpringSource for approximately $362 million in cash... more »
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Play! framework 1.1 released with a new terrific web site!
The Play 1.1 release is out! It comes with a new website for http://www.playframework.org , check it out. The release notes for the... more »
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Seam/JSF vs Wicket: performance comparison
A comparison of the Seam booking application built with Seam/JSF and Wicket. Peter Thomas compares response times and memory usage.... more »
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