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As techcrunch reports yesterday, Google AppEngine, a platform for building and hosting web applications in the cloud, will begin letting developers write applications in Java in the near future. Until now only Python applications were supported. The announce…
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Hibernate provides powerful caching mechanisms which can help increasing performance and scalability of your application. However besides the benefits there are also pitfalls, which can only be avoided if one understands the inner workings of Hibernate and th…
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Yesterday was day 2 of EclipseCon 2009. That was the morning, Oracle released a major update to the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) -- which is freely available and can be installed via Oracle's Eclipse Update site or getting an all-in-one from…
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If you have to operate on files and cannot afford to loose data, seriously consider using one of the available frameworks. If you search the net, you come a cross some. One of the best is the Apache commons-transactions package. And of course it is probably b…
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Inspired by Adam's Blogpost to his famous " What You Can Build In 50 Minutes With Java EE 5/6? " Session, I tried the other side of software development yesterday. My talk at the DOAG SIG Fusion Middleware was about clustering and scaling Oracl…
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In the last year or so, the software architecture business has gotten especially interesting again says enterprise architect and ZDNet blogger Dion Hinchcliffe in his new 10 Must-Know Topics in Software Architecture in 2009 . The industry is finally seeing ma…
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In the recent days, I've seen an increasing amount of interest in building solutions for applications made up of OSGi bundles. So far I was a true believer, that OSGi and bundles will not play a big part in Enterprise Java. But who knows? If you try to de…
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I was interviewed for the Peer-to-Peer section in the March/April 2009 issue of the Oracle Magazin . If you like to, you can find the four short questions and my answers on the ora mag website.
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The Washington Post reports , that IBM is talking to SUN about bying them. At the moment nobody talks about the rumor. Ian Colley, a spokesman for IBM, declined comment on questions about any talks with Sun. A spokesman for Sun didn't return calls request…
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After a wonderfull family weekend, I am not going to post too much today. Just a few interesting links for you to visit: Creating PDF documents from Webpages ( Online Tool , Bookmarklet , Browser Plugin ) Integrating Guice with EJB The Agaile Pioneers new ca…
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Paul Krill from Infoworld interviewed Savio Rodrigues, IBM product manager for WebSphere Application Server at the SD West 2009 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. about the future directions the WebSphere Application Server will go . IBM plans more componenti…
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I recently read three posts about the future skills needed in webdevelopment. One was written by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg ( The death of web development and design, and what to do next. ), one by Chris Heilmann ( Web Development is Moving On - Are you? ) and …
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As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload…
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On Mar. 2, 2009 leading automobile manufacturers and suppliers announced the formation of the GENIVI Alliance (pronounced gen-ee-vee), a non-profit organization committed to driving the development and broad adoption of an open source In-Vehicle Infotainment…
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Found this post by Bruce Temkin this morning. He describes a a tool LEGO uses to enhance the customer experience. It is called the "experience wheel". The example of the output after a couple of steps; shows an approach to design a "WOW experi…
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Starting in december 2008 Joseph D. Darcy announced Project Coin . The goal of Project Coin is to determine what set of small language changes should be added to JDK 7. A call for proposals period will run until March 30, 2009. The first 17 proposals are now…
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Counting public betas and release candidates, there are a whopping nine different web browsers out today with enough market share to be considered mainstream. Maximum PC explains the differences between the browsers , future and present, so that you can make …
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As stated in a post a couple of days ago , my boss was speeking at the Software Engineering Conference 09. Here are the slides (German only, 550kb pdf) "Effective and efficient: Software development processes based on Eclipse EPF" Thanks to Rainer f…
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Found this video this morning. It's an highly impressive vision about what our live will look in the future. How will emerging technology improve our productivity in the years ahead? What opportunities will arise from evolving trends and global change? Mi…
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