For those who missed JavaOne this year, Sun has published the conference slides here a month later. I find these very useful especially for Java geeks as it provides an opportunity to learn some of the technical advancements around the Java platform and the momentum around the technology is healthy.
My top contenders this year […]

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In my earlier blog entry on Jersey, I used HTTPClient API and curl command line utility as the clients. I had not mentioned about the Jersey Client API. It is part of the Jersey distribution. I would prefer using Jersey Client API as it is modeled around the concepts of JAX-RS spec. Let us quickly […]

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Jersey is a JSR 311 reference implementation for the JAX-RS spec (The Java API for RESTful Web Services). The JSR development is nearing its completion, but for most part the RI is stable enough for developers to start playing with RESTful services. JAX-RS is an elegant API built around the powerful REST architecture and […]

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Message brokering markets were once dominated by heavy weights and required huge investments by enterprises for implementing such solutions. Vendors made huge bucks out of it by selling such solutions and support. Is this still considered a niche market? I personally don’t think so. I am definitely not against vendors offering such solutions, but the […]

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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 […]

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