Java News Archive

• 02 Nov 2011

  Oracle Coherence 3.7.1 extends beyond Java, .NET, and C++ (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Announcing Oracle Coherence 3.7.1 - introducing a REST API, Exalogic Infiniband integration, improved data access performance due to more efficient...

• 26 Oct 2011

  A posthumous 'tip of the hat' to John McCarthy (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  John McCarthy, the creator of Lisp, among many other accomplishments, passed away Sunday in Stanford, California at the age of 84. A pioneer and...

• An extensive RIA technology comparison matrix (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Today the people behind Vaadin released an updated comparison matrix that lines up the most popular and prominent rich Web technologies for a...

• Spring 3 testing with JUnit 4 (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Looking on the Internet for a way to test my Spring 3 application, I found many articles that describe how to test your application by using JUnit....

• 25 Oct 2011

  Injecting mock beans Into Spring context (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Today I was Googling about mocking when I found the following question: "Injecting mock beans into Spring context for testing. What I want to be able...

• 21 Oct 2011

  Do you SAMCRO your Google App Engine apps? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  A couple of weeks ago, we were involved in a discussion between users and technicians about transaction integrity for a hypothetical system. The...

• 20 Oct 2011

  Hudson vs. Jenkins: Is it too soon to declare a winner? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  The Jenkins community is promoting a number of bellweathers that would indicate that Hudson is losing the game when it comes to both mindshare and...

• 19 Oct 2011

  GPGPU with Jcuda the Good, the Bad and … the Ugly (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  In our previous article GPGPU for Java Programming we showed how to setup an environment to execute CUDA from within java code. However the previous...

• 13 Oct 2011

  Bob Lee on Java References, Square, and Deploying Rails on the JVM (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Bob Lee, CTO of Square and formerly responsible for core libraries in the Android platform sat down with O'Reilly for a short interview during...

• 12 Oct 2011

  Vaadin is a step ahead with HTML5 development on the server side (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  At JavaOne, TheServerSide got a chance to talk with Vaadin CEO Joonas Lehtinen. Oracle had just unveiled their HTML5 strategy, known as Project...

• 11 Oct 2011

  Antepedia is the largest knowledge base of open source components (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  When I talk to the un-tech members, I have difficulties explaining what makes Antepedia such a remarkable knowledge base. How could we explain the...

• James Gosling on Steve Jobs (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  James Gosling, the father of Java, provides an interesting look at the man who was Steve Jobs. "I interviewed for jobs with him 3 times... Each was a...

• 06 Oct 2011

  Java on the iPhone at JavaOne. But would Apple ever allow it? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  In an effort to demonstrate just how far the tentacles of their new HTML5 based strategy will reach, Oracle's Cameron Purdy and Adam Messinger...

• 29 Sep 2011

  Simplify continuous integration with Hudson

  Software pro Mansfield Moser explains why he favors Hudson for continuous integration and more in this interview with TSS staff.

• 26 Sep 2011

  The Programming Olympics (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  It's 10:00 am on the first Saturday of school at C.U. (University of Colorado). No projects have been assigned yet. No significant homework. So why...

• 23 Sep 2011

  Caches: an unpopular opinion, explained (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  In his blog, Joseph Ottinger sets the record straight on why caches are not always the right solution to a performance problem, especially when it...

• Weaving process with aspectj and spring-aspects using Maven (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  An important concept of aspect programming is the process of weaving. An aspect weaver takes information from raw classes and aspects and creates new...

• 20 Sep 2011

  Don't rewrite your application (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  When stuck with a legacy code base you'll hear the claim "We'll have to rewrite this from scratch in order to fix it!" It sounds promising. You start...

• 15 Sep 2011

  Apache Wicket 1.5 has been released (TheServerSide.com Newsfeed)

  The Apache Wicket team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the newest release of their component oriented open source Java web...

• 14 Sep 2011

  JavaOne: Relegated to the alcoves of OracleWorld (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Last year’s handling of the beloved JavaOne conference by Oracle eluted plenty of ideas with regards to how to run a better show in the future....

• JavaOne: relegated to the alcoves of OracleWorld (TheServerSide.com Newsfeed)

  Last year's handling of the beloved JavaOne conference by Oracle eluted plenty of ideas with regards to how to run a better show in the future....

• 13 Sep 2011

  The OpenJDK as the default Java on Linux (TheServerSide.com Newsfeed)

  The OpenJDK is now the default Java on Linux after a change in Oracle's licensing terms for their official binary - is this good or bad?

• 09 Sep 2011

  Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard (TheServerSide.com News Feed)

  I used to think that Scala was easy. It was, and continues to be, a cure for some of the numerous problems with Java. From the "stuff that's hard or...

• 08 Sep 2011

  10 ways to build and test rich Internet applications (RIA) (TheServerSide.com News Feed)

  Today's Web is a rich set of competing approaches to deliver RIA. The user community is already equipped to run your application when you choose a...

• Do we really need another framework to Play with? 2.0 is out with a curfew (TheServerSide.com News Feed)

  Play 2.0 is out. Well, okay, it's not out: but it's sort of out. Some non-GA stuff is available for download and development, with the disclaimer...

• 06 Sep 2011

  From java.awt.print.Printable to PDF (TheServerSide.com News Feed)

  This article explains how to convert java.awt.print.Printable objects to PDF files, so that every java server can generate PDF's based on Printables...

• 02 Sep 2011

  Problems with ORMs (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Object Relational Mapping tools like Hibernate have helped developers make huge productivity gains in dealing with relational databases in the past...

• 31 Aug 2011

  Gosling sails away from Google and Android (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Gosling has moved from the company that brought us Android, to a company that makes nifty little robots that use solar-power and energy harvested...

• Tutorial: Writing an Android location-aware app (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Location-aware programming adds a new dimension to mobile programming. Location hardware such as GPS, is pretty standard on mobile devices. Taking...

• What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Today we are going to see if we can unravel the mess of Dependency Inversion, Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection. It's important that we...

• 29 Aug 2011

  How Scala changed the way I think about my Java Code (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Some people advocate their preferred language as the only way to enlightenment and productivity boosts. I don’t believe it. There are others that...

• Java 7: What Does It Mean for Tomcat 8? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Just about one month ago, Java 7 was released. The official project was opened by the Apache Software Foundation for its open source JSP and servlet...

• 26 Aug 2011

  How many bugs do you have in your code? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  If you follow Zero Bug Tolerance, of course you’re not supposed to have any bugs to fix after the code is done. But let’s get real. Is there any way...

• 25 Aug 2011

  Would you trust an embedded system with your life?

  Embedded medical devices have made treatment and diagnosis more convenient and effective. But are these new technologies really ready to rely on?

• 24 Aug 2011

  Is Micro Cloud Foundry really the first 'on-premise' PaaS of its kind? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  "For the Java developer, it's something completely new. I can have the cloud on my laptop. I can take a Java or Spring or Rails application, drop it...

• 19 Aug 2011

  Alkacon Software releases OpenCms 8.0.2 (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Version 8.0.2 of Alkacon Software's successful open source website content management system OpenCms 8 is now ready and available for download from...

• 18 Aug 2011

  PIT 0.21 Mutation testing for Java released (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  PIT is a code coverage system for Java that goes much further than traditional tools and checks not only that your code is exercised, but that it is...

• 17 Aug 2011

  Database performance hint: New closeMethod for JNDI resources on Tomcat 7 (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Forcing full garbage collection each time an application is restarted, while not elegant, would ensure your active connection pool always has...

• 16 Aug 2011

  An introduction to EJB 3.0 injection and lookup (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  The Enterprise JavaBeans Specification v. 3.0 introduces a simplified, annotation based API for EJB injection and lookup. EJB 3.0 are now POJOs and...

• 15 Aug 2011

  Hibernate gotchas (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  When you don't work with a given technology for a while, you often find yourself doing the same mistakes time and time again. So, here is a sort of...

• 12 Aug 2011

  -Xmx is not hurting Java (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Phil Swenson posted "-Xmx is hurting Java" and spam linked it on a mailing list [the next] morning. His statement is that by limiting the available...

• New Tasktop Sync unifies heterogeneous ALM stacks to ease large-scale Agile deployments (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Tasktop Sync is a new product that allows IT organizations to synchronize existing ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects....

• 11 Aug 2011

  Mobicents Sip Servlets 1.6.0.FINAL is out (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  The release comes with the following new features: SNMP support, support for SIP servers, support for ENUM, Mobicents Sip Servlets, DoS attack...

• Selenium PageObjects introduction screencast now available (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Selenium PageObject is a software and test development pattern to represent Web pages or parts of Web pages. PageObject is an approach to building...

• 08 Aug 2011

  Inversion of Control Container for Cocoa & iPhone? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  The IoC container provides dependency injection to Cocoa applications. It was created with iPhone development in mind. It aims to provide some...

• 05 Aug 2011

  Lucene should just shut up about Java 7 (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Lately the Lucene and Solr camps have been making a lot of noise about how Java 7 should be avoided. That's fine, but they're not being fair and...

• 02 Aug 2011

  JMS Browser 2.2.1 - First Public Release (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  With JMS Browser you can browse, view and send JMS messages to queues and topics easily from a powerful Eclipse based user interface.

• Why can't Rational and Spring get along? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Do issues persist between Rational, WebSphere and Spring? If so, how are you solving them?

• 01 Aug 2011

  It doesn't look good for Google - Android checkmate? (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  I am personally starting to think that Google should just pay up, and let Android and Java roll on, especially in light of the fact that they were...

• 29 Jul 2011

  How to write a dead-simple online network drive using Java & WebDAV (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  If you've ever thought about exposing your Java web app as a network folder that can be mounted as a drive, we've written a step-by-step guide using...

• 25 Jul 2011

  The art of the technical presentation (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  The double edged sword of attending a professional conference or symposium is the fact that for every session that motivates you and reinvigorates...

• 19 Jul 2011

  Compuware Pushes dynaTrace to get their APM 4 Product out the Door (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Okay, maybe the whole 'pushing' thing isn't quite the truth. Maybe there wasn’t any ‘strong arming.’ And the release of version four less than a...

• Tutorial: Cross-platform mobile sync app (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  This tutorial covers how to develop a cross-platform mobile app that is fully synchronized with the Cloud. The technology used for cross-platform...

• 18 Jul 2011

  jqGrid, REST, AJAX and Spring MVC integration (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  More than two years back I wrote an article on how two implement elegant CRUD in Struts2. Today I have taken a much more lightweight and modern...

• restSQL 0.6 release adds PostgreSQL interoperability (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Version 0.6 of restSQL, an open-source persistence framework, was released on July 15. The release extends database interoperability from MySQL to...

• 15 Jul 2011

  A disciple from the Church of Bruce Eckel thinks in Scala (TheServerSide Newsfeed)

  Markus Jais has a few insights on why the hoi polloi is reticent about picking up Scala. Much of the argument centers around the lack of...