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Arul Effective Java second edition finally started shipping this week. I dreamed of this day in one of my earlier blog post 🙂 As predicted, it finally made it this year during JavaOne. Even this year, Joshua had a session on “More ‘Effective Java’” – third in a row since 2006. The book was published on … Read moreEffective Java v2 finally ships
Apache CXF is an open services framework. It is more than just a Web Services stack. Its simple, powerful, and promising. Today, the CXF project graduated from incubation as a top-level Apache project. It has made several stable releases since its incubation. I know projects which still prefer to use first generation Axis due to … Read moreDeveloping Apache CXF and JPA services in NetBeans 6.1 IDE
This week’s major acquisition announcements of Bea by Oracle and MySQL by Sun are considered significant milestone in consolidating J2EE application servers and open source database servers. The application server market is witnessing a strong convergence with 9 Java EE 5 compatible implementations vs 17 J2EE 1.4 vs 22 J2EE 1.3. The players are WebLogic … Read moreServer Consolidation – a smart move
My web site has reached its maximum bandwidth limit on Jan 16. Unfortunately, I was traveling on this day, so I could not fix this problem immediately. I have hosted Spring MVC tutorial using NetBeans on my website which would have been worsely hit as this is referenced from NetBeans.org. Any ways, I will be moving this … Read moreBlack out on Jan 16
Effective Java Second Edition slips to ship in 2007, though Ted originally predicted in his 2006 Tech predictions. Finally, it is likely to be released around the time frame of Java One 2008 in May. I hope that Joshua does not change his original 2007 title “Effective Java: This Time It’s for Real” in JavaOne … Read moreEffective Java and Java in 2008
I was recently using the 1.1 release of Craig MacKay’s Spring Module for NetBeans which supports the latest Spring Framework 2.5. Spring Framework tutorial hosted at NetBeans.org provides details on how to use this module in NetBeans IDE. Thomas Risberg’s Developing a Spring Framework MVC Application Step-by-Step tutorial is a good one which explains end-to-end … Read moreSpring MVC Step-by-Step Tutorial ported on NetBeans/GlassFish
I was driving from Des Moines to Chicago on Friday 12/21 to send off my parents from O’HARE the next day. The seasonal affair was in effect as usual in Iowa. We started driving at 8am and we were navigating through the dense fog through I-80 and I-88. It was a black hole experience. The … Read moreInterstate 80 and the Central Iowa Snow Storm – 12/22 aftermath
Today, Google released the Android platform SDK to the developer community. It comes with tools and APIs to develop applications on the open mobile platform using the Java programming language. It comes with an emulator and Eclipse plugin for development. The SDK is already available on Windows, Mac OS X (intel), and Linux (i386) platforms. … Read moreAndroid SDK is out. Its Java, not J2ME:)
Today, Google announced the most awaited mobile strategy backed by the industry’s big wees. The momentum turned into Open Handset Alliance with more than 30 technology and mobile companies which developed the first complete, open and free mobile platform. Developers will have access to the Android SDK on November 12. Google unlocks the opportunity to … Read moreGoogle bigbangs mobile industry with Android
Finally, I had a chance to touch and feel the iPhone in an Apple retail store in West Des Moines. [singlepic=10,320,240,,] I was blown away by the technology Apple has brought to its consumers. Watching YouTube videos in a mobile device is just amazing. Facebook on iPhone connects you to people around you. Bringing social … Read moreiPhone – connecting minds