I remember back to this year's JavaOne, it was A LOT OF FUN to sit in that press briefing room while jon Schwartz and Rich Green (and the UN guy) talked about how Sun is focused squarely on making the…... more »

RSF version 0.7.2 has been released. RSF promotes minimal and clean designs - in contrast to the majority of current Java frameworks which proliferate with increasingly complex schemes for managing stateful components, RSF cuts through the issue by promoting and facilitating zero server state designs. This brings web development more in line with the web - as well as making fewer demands on server resources, it arguably delivers apps which users find more idiomatic and intuitive.... more »

Apache ServiceMix is an extensible messaging bus for service integration, mediation and composition and its related components. ServiceMix provides a JBI 1.0 ESB and component suite.... more »

Sun has announced the release of Glassfish V2, their open-source application server (and the reference implementation of Java EE), along with the availability of the NetBeans 6 beta. Glassfish V2 adds clustering and a good bit of performance to prior releases; NetBeans 6 adds multiple language support, and a much faster editor.... more »

You can do all sorts of interesting things with XML, but if you can't persist it to a file, it's all for naught. Brett McLaughlin discusses different tactics for XML persistence, and the pros and cons of each.... more »

Want to distribute your JavaEE application client so that users can download and run it with a single mouse click? Learn how easy it is when you use the Java Web Start feature of the GlassFish app server.... more »

Learn how the Java Persistence API allows you to use POJOs in desktop applications.... more »

I was happy to see that InfoQ took up the JSR 277 / JSR 291 stuff again and did a pretty good job weaving together the recent activity (including my own call to interest on the subject). ... more »

Earlier, I blogged about javac's hidden option "-printflat". I modified javac source to "open up" the hidden "-printflat" flag. Well, it turns out that you don't need to do that!! As per javac source docs, there are 4 kinds of options:... more »

Up to this point the Spring Portfolio Maven artifacts, especially the snapshots, were inconsitently created and scattered about in various locations. Over the past couple of weeks, we've been working to get the projects to be more consistent in the creation and uploading of these artifacts.... more »