Juergen Hoeller announced the availability of the newest Spring Framework 3.0 RC1 release. This release completes the key Spring 3.0 feature set. Beginning with the original themes REST and EL the feature list have been expanded significantly: Fully Jav…
Continue ReadingHave a look at the GlassFish Conference Wiki for an updated list of GlassFish related Sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 09. Oracle OpenWorld is Oracle's premier conference. It is held mostly at Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, October 11-15th 2009. At …
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PrimeFaces UI 0.9.3 Trailer
PrimeFaces UI 0.9.3 is coming on 05.10.09 with many new features and improvements, here’s the video of the trailer: PrimeFaces UI-0.9.3 Trailer from cagataycivici on Vimeo . Know Feature-List: FileUpload DataTable Lazy Loading Keyboard Component Pic…

This is a special date this year. Not only that it's my birthday where I get ((58647 - 45678 + 4758 - 324 + 589) * 0,54) - 715,68 - 8967) years old. It is about the elections to the Bundestag in Germany. I have never been too much into politics. My main …
Continue ReadingThe Java EE Container Redeploy & Restart Report comes from a survey with over 1100 Java EE developer respondents. It analyzes time spent on the Redeploy and Restart process, and compares the following containers: GlassFish Jetty Tomcat WebSphere We…


A Tribute to Sun Microsystems
For more than 27 years, Sun has led the way in network computing innovation. And while oftentimes taking the road less traveled, the journey has delivered some of the most revolutionary — and evolutionary — ideas, business practices, and products. From Solari…

Did you ever wonder, if you could customize the look and feel, that comes with the weblogic server admin console? You can :) The administration console is a weblogic portal application that uses skins and skeletons like they exist in the weblogic portal.…

"Everything is best for something and worst for something else. The trick is knowing for what, when, for whom, and why." (Bill Buxton) The Windows product team released the official Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines as PDF . The…

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Continue ReadingPrimeFaces released two new versions of their components. UI Component 0.9.2 This includes performance updates, new components and improvements on Partial Page Rendering. Most important changes: * New components : Wizard, Layout Framework, Growl, Stack, Coll…

I wrote a small howto about putting Spring 3.x to work with Google Appengine earlier the year. This is the basic starting point for this extended howto.
Continue Reading#Maven: The Definitive Guide
While there are a number of references for Maven online, there is no single, well-written book that can serve as both a well-worn reference and an introduction. Sonartype is going to change this, whith their online book "Maven: The Definitive Guide"…
Continue ReadingThe Pragmatic Bookshelf presents a monthly free magazin , compiled by their editor Michael Swaine. It brings you a magazin packed full of interesting articles, features, and departments. Download it in PDF , mobi (good for the Kindle), and epub (great for …
Continue ReadingThe European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation under the EU Merger Regulation into the planned acquisition of US hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation Read the press release Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes sai…

"Selecting the wrong person as lead enterprise architect, and not engaging business people are two of the biggest pitfalls organisations face when trying to establish an effective enterprise architecture (EA) programme, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartne…

Reuters reports on rumors on Oracle/Sun/EU. The commission antitrust authority is debating whether to approve the deal by Thursday's deadline, amid concern about Oracle getting its hands on Sun's MySQL database, the sources told Reuters. Update: Matt…

Just today Oracle published the OTN Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2009 , a quick summary of all the goodies you can look forward to in October (something like 60 days away - wow). My flights are booked, and I am quite excited about visiting SF :) Hope, to be able…

Edocs.bea.com vanished away. Here are the new links to the Weblogic Server documentation. WLS 10.3.1 WLS 10.3.0 WLS 10.0 WLS 9.2 WLS 9.1 WLS 9.0 WLS 8.1


Links for Sept 1, 2009
The Future of Content Management by Kas Thomas via assertTrue( ) RichFaces 4.0.0.ALPHA1 Released!! by Jay Balunas via In Relation To - Bloggers Using Compass and Sass for CSS in your Next Project by Alex Coomans via Nettuts+ Using the Console to Create Rep…
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