Stop picking on Groovy Eclipse
... or better yet, help it out. Let's recap a bit on the state of Groovy support in the 3 mayor IDEs.
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Spring Application Platform - is it a big mistake?
Another take on SpringSource's recent announcement of s2ap
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Java: Beautiful enums
Whatever complaints you may have against java, I think you have to grant that at least enums are a thing of beauty.
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Performance improvements in Substance 5
Looking at the comments on the announcement of release 4.3 of Substance look-and-feel, the three major pain points for the users are: performance,... more »
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Just to clarify - It isn't Ext JS guys who are ignoramuses, it's the other guys
The ignoramuses are the guys complaining about Ext JS's switch to GNU v3. They are the people who don't understand OSS licensing (but claim they do),... more »
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When Does EJB Make Sense?
I wouldn’t suggest EJB for the next project. In fact, I’m trying to imagine how it would ever make complete sense from a technical perspective. I... more »
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Swing Explorer version 1.0 released
I'd like to announce 1.0 version of Swing Explorer application. Swing Explorer is a tool for Swing developers. It facilitates inspection of... more »
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27 Mind-Blowing See-Through Mac Monitors (Pics)
27 images of macs with wallpapers giving the appearance that the screen is see-through. Very cool.
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Substance 4.3 official release
It gives me great pleasure to announce the official release for version 4.3 of Substance look-and-feel (code-named Nairobi).
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Native font rasterization in Java! :)
Finally, Java 6 Update 10 gets native font rasterization on Windows :)
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Released: Java SE 6 Update 10 Beta
Java SE 6 Update 10 Beta is available. Its focus is very specific—new features and enhancements aimed at providing an optimized consumer end user... more »
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Java 4k Game Competition 2008 is Over
"Only" 21 games this time, but boy there was some awesome stuff this year. The official scoring is over here: http://java4k.com/overall.html
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Spring Creator Sees "The Decline of the Traditional Java EE Server"
Rod Johnson, creator of Spring, is well known for his predictions of a "changing of the guard" for Enterprise Java. At the TheServerSide Java... more »
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Two generations of completely failed technology
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The Entity Bean technology somehow ignored every piece of prior art, with the result that you had two generations of completely failed technology …... more »
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How Not To Form a Standard
Out of a 6000 page submission, here is but one example of how Microsoft's OOXML becomes painful to implement.
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Hudson hits 1.200
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Hudson finally hit 1.200 last Friday. It's not 1.2 nor 1.2.0.0 — it's 1.200, the 201st release of Hudson since it's 1.0 release, which was a little... more »
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Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors?
A few years ago I worked on a very big Enterprise IBM Websphere project. We had some brilliant engineers in the project both in the development and... more »
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Why people hate Tapestry (or even Howard)
Recently I've seen quite some people expressing their hatred towards Tapestry or Howard, why?
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Rails and Grails comparison
I have a spent few years developing in Ruby on Rails. For the last half of year I have been learning Grails, too. The things described here are a... more »
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Translucent and Shaped Swing Windows
Support for translucent and shaped windows has been a long-standing request for the AWT and Swing teams. Even though native applications have had... more »
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Repair A Crashed MySQL Table
To repair a MySQL table, log into your database using phpMydmin web client. Select you database from the database drop down on the left hand side. At... more »
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New JDK Registration Capability in Java SE 6u5
JDK product registration is one of the most significant features in the new Java SE 6u5 release. This provides the ability to register the JDK... more »
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Writing unit tests using Groovy
Groovy can greatly decrease the level of work involved in creating unit tests for your Java code. I find that this is especially evident in the number... more »
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Java: Dr. James Gosling says the grapes are sour!
"... in its current form and shape Flex is a great option." "I feel very disappointed when a person I deeply respect and revere needs to make such... more »
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Java 6™ New Features: A Tutorial
For seasoned Java programmers who want to stay up to date on the latest Java tools, this guide discusses the new features of Java 6–Mustang.
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