Picking up from yesterday , let's look at one of the Filthy Rich Client samples. In chapter 9, we can read all about glass panes. This Swing component gives us access to the complete surface of the user interface, in one unbroken piece. It is like a thin pristine layer of ice over a pond full of turmoil and complexity. And it is invisible by default.... more »

Hibernate, in the end, is all about dispatching SQL statements. SQL is at the heart of communication with an RDBMS system, and it is extremely important when struggling through performance problems or other bugs, that you know what is going on. After all, knowing the executed SQL allows you to determine the number of queries to complete an O/R mapping task, not to mention that seeing SQL queries is critical to understanding how to optimize the queries via indices and other database settings.... more »

Lets face it, Java MVC web application frameworks are a dime a dozen. That's admittedly why when Wicket was first released, I didn't pay very much attention. Wicket persisted without my attention, however, and has certainly continued to generate buzz. Recently, I was in a position to spend some time learning what all the talk was about, and my first impression was certainly a positive one.... more »

It used to be a real pain to install Java on most versions of Linux, but now that Sun has modified the license, there are some easier ways to install Java. ... more »

One of the strengths of the Spring Framework is its robust and flexible aspect oriented programming infrastructure. In Spring, AOP is a little different than other AOP frameworks in that it brings with it a consistent AOP infrastructure that can be applied for other AOP technical solutions. Out of the gate, Spring supports dynamic-proxy-based AOP, and CGLib-based AOP. Both of these have their limitations, but can honestly be used in a very large majority of cases. Spring does have integration support with AspectJ as well, however, so don't worry. Thankfully, the AspectJ integration is not drastically different from the regular AOP, which I think shows some of the strengths of Spring's AOP infrastructure; even an AOP library as different as AspectJ can still be integrated.... more »

On the verge of another Eclipse milestone release (3.1 M7 for this Friday), I thought it would be good to share my experiences with managing multiple Eclipse installs with everyone so you could try out the new Eclipse installations, without ruining your day by accidentally breaking your IDE, and being unable to get any work done.... more »

The following are some of the many cool NetBeans IDE 6.0 keyboard shortcuts that no programmer will be able to do without, once you know they're there. Not all of these are new in 6.0, some were there before, but deserve to be highlighted because often they're overlooked: ... more »

Practical JRuby on Rails shows how JRuby brings Java's full-featured API to Ruby and Rails' ease of use in creating applications. These chapters introduce a simple shopping application, deployed in the JVM.... more »

Spring Batch is a module for Spring that provides the capability to use Spring's dependency injection feature in a batch-processing environment - through tasklets, modeling the functionality COBOL's brought to high-volume computing for decades. This article by Lucas Ward and Dr. David Syer explains Spring Batch�s architecture and where it might be used.... more »

In this article, Anghel Leonard give us a walkthrough of JavaFX Script, the syntax, several examples, and usage within Eclipse and NetBeans.... more »