The biggest development of Groovy and Grails in relation to NetBeans IDE happened yesterday: "Groovy and Grails support in NetBeans has been enabled on Development Update Center." I mean, the most concrete contribution of Groovy and Grails support and the clearest sign that NetBeans loves Groovy (and Grails). The work done by Martin Adamek and Matthias Schmidt is now, for the first time, available in the update center for NetBeans Development Builds (i.e., for post-6.0 builds, hence, not in RC 2). They will not be part of the standard NetBeans IDE 6.0 distribution, because of timing and planning and so on, but anyone with a development build (obtainable from netbeans.org download page) can go to the Plugin Manager and look for Groovy:... more »

Visualization of Program Dependence Graphs, by Thomas Wurthinger, from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, is a paper dealing with the Java HotSpot VM server compiler. It was successfully submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science at the abovementioned university.... more »

If you are used to heavily editing XML files in NetBeans, you would have wished for the code completion assistance to be a bit smarter. As an example, let us take the case of editing a Spring Framework Beans Configuration file. I want to add an tag to the XML configuration file. This tag has two required attributes: name and alias. It all starts by invoking the code completion assistance by typing in '<'. The following dialog shows up:... more »

The polls have closed and the results are in. That is, the results for the JCP Final Approval Ballot for JSR 268 (Java Smart Card I/O API). You can read the detailed results on the JCP web site. This happened in sync with the vote on the JDK 6 platform JSRs as explained in Danny's blog. I am also happy to report that this election cost some 2.8 billion USD less than a certain other election ;-)... more »

A few weeks ago I posted an entry that explained what superpackages are about. This is a continuation that deals with nested superpackages. If you have not read the first post, read it before continuing. As a reminder, the short version is: a superpackage is a language construct for information hiding [1].... more »

We just posted the first source drop of the OpenJDK Modules project on the project page. The Modules project covers the implementation of JSR 277 and JSR 294 and you now have a chance to get a really early look at it, try it out, and contribute to it.... more »

As you have have already noticed, the JCP Early Draft specification of JSR 294 is now available for download from the JSR page.... more »

From time to time, the JSF team at Sun surfs around a bit looking for new Internet sites using JSF. This time, my colleague Roger Kitain discovered that Virgin Megastore is a JSF User.... more »

The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) allows developers to use the Eclipse architecture to design flexible and extensible applications re-using a lot of already existing functionality. Getting started with Eclipse RCP can be time consuming and difficult. Having a short how-to-description makes it easier to get started. Hence the following article focuses on how to get certain aspects of Eclipse RCP into work. ... more »

By far, the most common approach for mapping your model into Hibernate is via XML configuration. It's common to see a configuration that looks something like this:... more »