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Wayne's New Job

It’s been a busy last few weeks. I wrapped up the month of April with a great trip to Mainz, Germany for the Eclipse Forum Europe conference followed by a...

0 replies - 1319 views - 05/14/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Using Java Assertions? Use an Assertion-failed Breakpoint!

I'm a big fan of assertions. I use them very often in my code as safeguards. I was very pleased when true, native assertions were introduced to Java: they...

4 replies - 5905 views - 05/07/09 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

Nobody is Talking About The Whiteboard Pattern - Does OSGi Violate "Separation of Concerns"

I have known OSGi since Version 2 and started using it since Version 3. What made me a believer was the Service Oriented Programming model and the positive...

2 replies - 4971 views - 05/01/09 by peterhuber in News

Launching OSGi With Pax Runner

In last week's article, we saw how to go from zero to working OSGi bundles quickly using Pax Construct. We've only scratched the surface of Pax Construct and...

0 replies - 3348 views - 04/30/09 by Craig Walls in Articles

Top 10 Java Twitterers

Twitter has become a fantastic tool for me to keep up with what's going around in the Java and Eclipse communities. This is all down to following the right...

8 replies - 13184 views - 04/24/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18897 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21452 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Eclipse Community Survey: Just Five Minutes Of Your Time

Earlier this week, the Eclipse Foundation launched their community survey. The survey poses questions such as how you participate with the open source and...

0 replies - 1482 views - 04/17/09 by James Sugrue in News

Developer Panel - Key Questions in Middleware

In this virtual panel, recorded at the recent JBoss Virtual Experience, software engineers from the JBoss division at Red Hat address several key questions...

6 replies - 5276 views - 04/15/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

What Should Be The Platform of Your Next Application?

I'm currently thinking about the next steps for my information manager Hyena. It exists in two versions, as an Eclipse plugin and as a GWT-based...

10 replies - 4305 views - 04/13/09 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

The future of Java build tools

With a short post on dzone Adam Bien revived an old flame-war: should we use Ant or Maven as our build tool. The post itself seems a little biased on the maven...

12 replies - 7508 views - 02/24/09 by Adam Pohorecki in Articles

Emerging Technologies, Do You Have the Latest Solutions?

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0 replies - 2916 views - 02/24/09 by WeiLing in Announcements

JPA 2.0: Why AccessType is Relevant

It has long been debated whether field access is superior to property access for JPA entities. Most arguments that I've seen hinge on performance versus...

12 replies - 4201 views - 02/18/09 by David Green in Tips and Tricks

WebStarting Equinox OSGi Apps

Java WebStart is a nice and easy way of deploying Java applications with one click from the web. In this blog I describe how to webstart an OSGi (Equinox)...

1 replies - 2926 views - 02/10/09 by Kai Tödter in Articles