I am working on a private project these days. It should give myfear.com and myfear.de a new meaning. Therefore I am trying out Google's…

Have you read the recent IEEE-Article from Tom DeMarco (PDF) ? My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, a…

Starting August 31, 2009, edocs.bea.com will no longer be maintained. At that time, edocs documentation will be available from the Oracle Te…

Maven is number one in managing dependencies. This could get even simpler, if you use plugins for your favourite ide (e.g. m2eclipse). Anywa…

Most projects today have at least one part, that is generated in anyway. This is not too easy to integrate with maven. Mostly the generator…

You may have seen my simple JEE5 maven project setup already. I am trying to add more and more features during the next few weeks that sati…

I had to start several JEE5 projects recently and always needed to setup a new maven project structure over and over again. Therefore I dec…

Sun 's stockholders approved the company's sale to Oracle for $9.50 a share Thursday. In an special meeting held at Santa Clara, CA, …

Vincent Partington has written a series of blog posts about the JPA implementation patterns he discovered while writing JPA code. Basic pat…

With version 2.0, Java™Server Faces (JSF) makes it easy to implement robust, Ajaxified Web applications. The recent article series by JSF 2…

Gmail4J is a simple, object oriented library for accessing Gmail services from Java. The actual build version 0.3 is available under a Apac…

Kyle Smith (VMware) posted a series of blogposts where he talks about using Eclipse, Maven, OSGi, and Spring DM in a real life project. Firs…

The JBoss Tools 3.1 M2 Milestone was released on the 10th of july. New Features Support for Maven Archived Update Site XHTML Validation Conditio…

And so is the free space, if you have a toddler at home :) Therefore I am giving away a nice toy. My Cobalt Qube2. If you like, you can tak…

If you ever tried using a different O/R mapper than the ones provided by Oracle, you may have come across several issues. The most common o…

According the the Oracle ArchBeat Blog , the entire OTN Arch2Arch Podcast interview with Oracle’s Bill Dettelback is now available. In this …

Remote Debugging a JVM is quite simple at all. This is the same, if you are trying to debug an Oracle Webglogic Server instance. Grep your f…

As you probably may have heard: JSF2.0 is final now. Time to give the available distributions a shot. I was curious to find out, that the a…

Yesterday I attended the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Launch in Munich. It was a small but very interesting event at all. Alex Andrianopoul…