Introducing Caching for Java Applications (Part 1)
An increasing volume of critical data presents new challenges when developing performing applications with Java. Caching may address these challenges... more »
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Introducing a Lightweight UI Toolkit: Bringing Desktop Development into Java ME
Sun Microsystems announced LWUIT at the last JavaOne Conference. It is an advanced user interface library, a feature much desired by JavaME... more »
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Top 10 Java Performance Troubleshooting Tools
Here are 10 tools useful for Java application performance troubleshooting!
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Introduction to m2eclipse
The Eclipse IDE is the most widely used IDE for Java development today. At the same time, Apache Maven continues to mature, and has grown to be the... more »
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iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you?
Masoud Kalali 
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Don't let the old object-relational impedance mismatch get the best of you or your data. Compare ORM tools Hibernate and iBATIS and the Java... more »
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The Downside to Freelancing
A discussion on the problems encountered in freelancing and how to get around them
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Practical Concurrency Patterns: Safe/Unsafe Cache
After having examined a classical reader-writer-lock-based cache and a thread-local cache, we have come to terms with the deficiencies of both... more »
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+2500 resources for builders, developers and designers of the web.
Unmatchlist is a categorized list of resources for builders, developers and designers of the web.
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BitNami: Making Open Source Software Simple.
I have always enjoyed trying out different Open Source products, like Mantis, Joomla, Roller, Liferay, ect. Sometimes I need to install one of these... more »
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SOAP demystified
Quick review of SOAP to really understand what it is and how it works. General outline with code snippets.
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5 Minute Guide to Spring Security
A brief tutorial illustrating use of Spring Security 2 (aka Acegi Security) with XML configuration and simple integration into a web application with... more »
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Java Concurrency - Anatomy of a Synchronizer
Text no 21 in the Java Concurency series analyzes the design traits that most synchronizers (locks, semaphores, blocking queues etc.) have in... more »
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VisualVM 1.0 Released
VisualVM 1.0 has been released, and it is included in Java 6u7 (also released today)
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Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework
tries to highlight imp points from this book
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7 Steps to Completing Your Projects on Time
My background is in software development, a field infamous for delivering the vast majority of its projects over budget. This problem is not limited... more »
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TrueCrypt version 6.0 released
TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one... more »
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Testing Wicket with FitNesse
This blog describes how to test Wicket applications using Fitnesse. It is about stretching the limits of the Wicket test components to do so. We will... more »
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Re: Investing in a Quality Programming Chair
You are wasting another $500-$1000 for another chair simply because it's associated "with dot-com excess".
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Scaling Your Java EE Applications
If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now... more »
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Web Services with Mule, CXF, and Spring
Since it seems like everything is going the way of SOA and Web Services these days, it's always nice to have some practical examples of how to quickly... more »
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Kill Your Users Table
It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do.
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XML-RPC demystified
2-minute hands-on approach to XML-RPC: see real code, get real skills.
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Quickstart Guide to Subversion on SourceForge
...One complaint I received from developers who read my Quickstart Guide To Open Source Development With CVS and SourceForge is the sheer amount of... more »
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Java Tip: Simplify Spring Apps with @Autowired
The Spring framework is a popular choice for Java developers due to its combination of power and simplicity. Spring is many things, but at its core,... more »
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