n last Friday (August 10th), I gave a lecture about Apache Struts 2 at IBM Brazil.... more »

The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) seamlessly integrates all the tools today's Java Web developer needs. WTP is both an unprecedented Open Source resource for working developers and a powerful foundation for state-of-the-art commercial products. ... more »

OpenXava is a Framework to develop J2EE business applications rapidly and easily. It's based in business components defined with XML. Feature rich and flexible since it's used for years to create business applications. Using OpenXava you can create really complex real life business applications. Generates POJO Hibernate EJB2 and EJB3 ... more »

I'm using Europa JEE edition on WinXP and JDK 1.5.0_12, and I'm ready to go back to Eclipse 3.2. In the Java editor Europa frequently just stops responding for several seconds at a time. ... more »

When BEA released their Java 6 implementation, they had promised to produce some benchmark numbers. Those numbers are finally out, and show BEA once again beating Sun. ... more »

Sun will announce today a program that gives access to the Java Technology Compatibility Kit to open source Java projects based on OpenJDK. However, Harmony, because it is neither GPL or based on OpenJDK, is not eligible to use the TCK under the new program. Projects that pass the test can use the official Sun Java logos for free. ... more »

Within Mbuyu, the company I work with, one of the things I’m responsible for is guarding the quality of our code base. This job mainly involves reading through source code and marking dubious constructs and practices. In the past I’ve been doing quite similar things at other locations.... more »

It's nice to be able to say this, but Java is now a mature language and platform. There's still plenty to add, but a serious amount of successful software can be, has been and is being written in Java. ... more »

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source toolkit that allows you to create AJAX-based Web applications that are completely written in Java. This article summarizes experiences gained when implementing a client/server Web application with GWT and Tomcat. Lessons learned are shared as tips and recipes that can improve the development of your GWT-based Web applications.... more »

Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java. Some languages would take textual code as input from a Java program and return the evaluation result back. Others would keep references to objects in a Java program, invoke methods on those objects, or create new instances of a Java class. Because each language would communicate with Java in its own way, developers would have to learn the script engine's proprietary programming interface every... more »