Wondering how to bridge the gap between Java EE and JBI in a composite application deployed on GlassFish? The Sun Java EE Engine is the answer.... more »

Learn about new cookie management features in Java SE 6 and how to use drag and drop with JTree components in this latest edition of Core Java Technologies Tech Tips.... more »

This introductory article shows you how to set up JRuby on the Java platform and explains the basics of using JRuby scripts with Java applications and the NetBeans IDE.... more »

BEA, Cognos, and Informatica have all been named yesterday by a Credit Suisse analyst Jason Maynard as possible acquisition targets in the wake of the SAP acquisition of Business Objects.... more »

This is a weekly update on new Java 7 information. All current and previous information is maintained on my Java 7 page. Kelly O’Hair posted the third update on the transition to Mercurial for source control. The plan is that build 22 will be the last build using the old Teamware system and build 23 will be the first on Mercurial. They’ve also looked at code conventions and converted all tabs to spaces. Let the flame war begin… :)... more »

The AWTEventListener class' sole purpose is to view events. All you have to do is to implement the eventDispatched method.... more »

Interactive graphical views of your Ant build files give you more information faster, reduce errors, and provide intuitive methods to help you comprehend, modify, and test build targets.... more »

Heard the early roll of thunder about a project called the 'Consumer JRE' last JavaOne ? ... more »

Over the last week or so, I've started to use JAXB along with the Restlet framework. We are actively developing RESTful web services here at Overstock.com. So being new to the Restlet framework, I was eager to get started. One type of representation supported by Restlet is of course XML. To generate XML representations we are using JAXB 2. Being an advocate of annotations, I thought I'd start with annotated POJO's and let the JAXB provider do the rest (I assumed this would be a lot like JPA). I ran into a problem however, trying to create a JAXBContext for my package, I got this error:... more »

Is it acceptable that Java collection-sorting routines typically perform no faster on newer multicore machines than on single-core ones? No it's not! Kirill Grouchnikov shows you how to leverage the JDK 6 concurrency utilities to improve the processing speed of core array-sorting algorithms by up to 35 percent.... more »