For quite some time I have been thinking about trying out that ‘Cloud-thing‘ and see what all the fuzz is about. Because at first I was very skeptic, ‘how is this any different then a normal hosting service’ or ‘how does this any different than a grid’. Because depending on the used definition, or cloud [...]

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The third and last day of the conference. The first session I went to this morning was a very interesting one, “The Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Scala” by Ted Neward. He explained the basics of the Scala programming language. Scala is a new and very interesting programming language that combines object oriented and [...]

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The first keynote of today was “Language-Oriented Computing: Shifting Paradigms” by Neal Ford. It was a good presentation (with nice slides), mainly about domain-specific languages. See also Martin Fowler’s page on DSLs.
At 9:10 I went to “Spring 2.5 On the Way to 3.0″ by Jürgen Höller (one of the main committers on the Spring [...]

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I am in Prague, at the TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe. It’s a conference much like other conferences about Java, but not as big (there are about 300 attendees) and with a focus on server-side Java technology (although non-Java stuff such as Adobe Flex and AIR, Groovy and JRuby also get some attention).
The first day started [...]

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After developing in Ruby on Rails for a while I settled back in ‘Java land’ for a good old Java project. For this project we extended the capabilities of an existing webapplication built on Struts, Spring and iBatis. Sounds like fun doesn’t it ?
Well to be honest those frameworks are pretty solid and stable and [...]

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Working on your next SCWCD or SCBCD Java exam? You rather take a look at the SUN certification pages.
As you can see both ‘Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 (CX-310-081)’ and ‘Sun Certified Business Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.3 (CX-310-090)’ are discontinued by February 29, [...]

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Hi all,
Vincent Partington from Xebia has been blogging about J2EE performance problems he and his colleagues have encountered.
They have compiled a top 10 list. It is a very interesting read, as it is all very recognizable
See http://blog.xebia.com/2007/04/30/ejapp-top-10-countdown-wrap-up/
(and TheServerSide.com as that is where I stumbled across the link to Vincents blogposts)
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Never thought I would ever quote Denis Leary in a J2EE context but I’m dying for coffee-flavoured-coffee right now. Just one (damn strong) taste of coffee which strikes the tongue and keep you awake. I’ll try to explain
The immediate cause: InfoQ’s has published an interview with Gaving King about the evolution of Seam, Gavin’s version of [...]

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Aspect Oriented Programming for me always has been something that is theoretically beautiful but in practice unfeasible to apply: A good idea that buried itself by bad examples and complex implementations. Until Google pointed me to this great article about AspectJ5 and its integration into the Spring Framework. Actually I was looking for some EJB3 [...]

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This years JavaOne was filled with JSF, Ajax and even more the combination of the two. On the Pavilion several commmercial vendors were selling their ajax enriched jsf components. The blueprint team showed us the petstore. Oracle showed us how to build custom ajax enabled jsf components. And so on.
In my previous post I noted [...]

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