JetBrains has just announced the final availability of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting features to Groovy and Grails and provides unsurpassed Groovy support in the Java IDE.... more »

Lost in the hype around Web 2.0 and AJAX is the fact that your visually attractive Web 2.0 application actually needs to do something useful. In this session we'll illustrate an AJAX application generated from XML-based models. Given that standards-based starting point, we'll illustrate how to generate XForms applications that handle data and workflows. Even more important, we'll change the business process definition and the data structures underlying the application, then use XSLT to regenerate the interface. This ensures that the beautiful AJAX interface stays synchronized with the model of the application.... more »

Momentum for organizations to adopt Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) is steadily increasing as the platform's container support, developer tools, educational resources, and developer-community experience all improve. Get a high-level view of the new productivity features and API enhancements in Java EE 5 and work through a Web service example that demonstrates its simplified development models.... more »

Numerous text editors these days are capable of so called "tab completion". That is, where you type three characters, hit the Tab key and wham, 200 lines appear. Obviously this can be a considerable time saver at times. ... more »

Eclipse Europa has Log4J available as a bundle in some packages; you can also download it from Orbit. But how do you configure it? We take a look at a simple way. ... more »

Every now and again, questions like "Why doesn't eclipse start?" are posted on the newsgroups, or "The application cannot be found". How do you go about debugging these scenarios? This isn't an exhaustive list, but may be a good place to start. ... more »

Hopefully you know by know that Mylyn is a great way to keep track of bugs (amongst other things), including those at (bugs.)Eclipse.org. Now, it's just as easy to be able to fix them, too. ... more »

The Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 certification exam is for programmers experienced using the Java programming language. Achieving this certification provides clear evidence that a programmer understands the basic syntax and structure of the Java programming language and can create Java technology applications that run on server and desktop systems using Java SE 6.... more »

Develop code that declares classes (including abstract and all forms of nested classes), interfaces, and enums, and includes the appropriate use of package and import statements (including static imports).... more »

I was so interested in Stephen Morris’s article on the Java Sound API that I decided to embark on a journey to record sound from a Java application. Stephen points to sample code and reports that using the Java Sound API is easy, but if you’re like me, you need to see a small sample before it really hits home. Therefore I went through several examples and from those built a simple example that explores the components of the Java Sound API and demonstrates how to use those components to record audio files.... more »