Spring Web Flow (SWF) is an emerging module of The Spring Framework that aims to be the best solution for the management of web application page flow, useable in any web framework. In this latest TSS article, the founders of Spring Webflow illustrate how a complex process can be implemented using the framework.
Oracle is throwing it's weight behind JSF and has been publishing monthly early access drops of Oracle ADF Faces, a standard JSF component library with features such as client-side validation, Partial Page Rendering, internationalization, multiple client support, and more. EA 16 was just released and features 89 components including a dialog/wizard framework.
Javaworld has posted an article on the differences between architects and developers, stating that most people don't seem to know there's a difference or what that difference is, stating that "Knowing how to solve a problem's context verses solving the problem itself distinguishes architects from developers."
The eXo Platform team is happy to announce the release of eXo JCR 1.0 RC1, an open-source implementation of the Java Content Repository (JCR). This implementation is based on the current final draft of JSR-170, and will go final after adding the optional features of JSR-170 and passing the compatibility tests.
dbobjects Inc. has released db4o 4.5, an open source object database engine. The new version comes with object replication for distributed databases. It also has improvements in the reflection mechanisms.
A project called Harmony to create a compatible, open source implementation of J2SE was proposed to the Apache Incubator. It hasn't been approved yet, but if we get approval, we're on our way.
Large scale systems such as electronic trading floors have performance and scalability requirements that invalidate the usual clustering & distributed caching best practices adopted in most enterprise deployments. In this TSS Tech Talk, Websphere High Availability Lead Architect Billy Newport introduces the notion of Partitioning & Asymmetric clustering.
Gurock Software has released SmartInspect, a message-based debugger and monitoring system for .NET, Delphi and Java. For Java, SmartInspect is installed as a native library that looks like it monitors JVM events and logs them for developer inspection. A demo version and a free personal edition are available for download.
The Apache Lenya development community is very proud to announce the 1.2.3 release of Apache Lenya. Lenya is an open-source content-management system written in Java, with a WYSIWYG editor, workflow, internationalization capabilities, search, and more.
IBM has released the Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK), a software development kit for designing, developing, and executing emerging autonomic and Web service technologies with a SOAP engine and an embedded application server. The ETTK implements much of the more recently published Web Services specifications.
Integrated content management and corporate portal server Jahia 4.1 has been released, after 2 years since 4.0. The most important change is the migration to Apache Slide 2.2 for the file repository, a Struts-based validation framework, Office and PDF search indexing, and integrated blogging capabilities.
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The founders of Spring Web Flow illustrate how a complex process can be implemented using the framework.
Large scale systems such as electronic trading floors have performance and scalability requirements that can't be supported by typical clustering best practices. IBM proposes Partitioning & Asymmetric clustering.
A companion/standalone book to Mastering EJB 2, EJB Design Patterns seeks to solidify and centralize all the cutting edge strategies and design patterns in use today.
Scott Ambler, author of a number of books on Agile programming, offers this tech talk on the use of the Agile method, and why it works so well, and why you should use it instead of the traditional development methods.
Andres March shows how OSCache can be used to save your processing requirement by storing data or content, to prevent continually re-reading it or re-generating it.
Bruce Snyder, lead developer on Castor JDO and developer for Geronimo, talks about Castor, Geronimo, TranQL, and Maven.
Object caching has all the characteristics of a cross cutting concern. This article shows how to implement AOP-based caching with OSCache and JBoss Cache & AspectJ.
Gregor Hohpe, Integration Architect from ThoughtWorks and co-author of Enterprise Integration Patterns, discusses EAI and messaging from an integration standpoint, from how to think about messaging to the integration of messaging into the enterprise.
BPEL4WS co-author Matjaz Juric explains BPEL from a Java developers perspective and shows how to extend BPEL with Java.
HiveMind is a project that helps implement systems as small, testable services which interact with one another to make up an application. In this article, James Carman explores some of the key features of HiveMind.
Alex Vollmer shows how you can use Hibernate and HSQL to test persisted data.
Emmanuel Cecchet discusses ObjectWeb's product suite, how ObjectWeb works as an organization, and some of the interesting projects under ObjectWeb's umbrella.
Jean-Francois Arcand, Tomcat5 developer, talks about Tomcat5 development, internal architecture, and embedding it into other processes.
This chapter discusses the uses of Jakarta Commons-Validator, a component that streamlines and centralizes validation mechanisms for Java.
Ruby on Rails also contains its own ORM. This article makes an investigative comparison between Rails Active Record and Hibernate, looking at architecture, features, and suitability for projects small and large.
The Application Server Matrix is a detailed listing of J2EE vendors and their application server products, with information on latest version numbers, J2EE spec support and licensing, pricing, platform support, and links to product downloads and reviews.