It's nearly done. 2010 is almost over and we finally reached Christmas. Time for eCards, postcards and greetings. I've seen many go…

As you might have read, I am working on a couple of WebLogic to GlassFish migration projects occasionally. Most of them are WLS 10.0 to Gla…

Believe it or not. From time to time I get the chance to make a proposal for a technology stack to use. And it happened recently, that I di…

This is a blog about a topic that I realy don't like. But it comes across my ways over and over again and it's no doubt that you ne…

I have spend a couple of hours with Java EE 6 since December 2009 and now it finally seems as if the time is right for doing the first real…

Kevin asks in his recent Java.net poll what do you think about the current pace of Java 7 / Java 8 development? It's not finished today…

A week after, the images arrived. And I found some time to do the postprocessing. This is what came out after walking around with the 7D of…

This one was on my list of things to buy for quite some time. The only reason for this is simple: Oracle JRockit is one of the industry’s h…

My last conference day started not too early. Ed and me had an eigth o'clock breakfast appointment and we drove to the ccn afterwards. …

The second day at the 2010 DOAG conference started more or less in time. After a longer evening it needs some discipline to get up early to…

It started yesterday. The DOAG 2010, the German Oracle Usergoup Conference. After a very quick ride by car (it is held in Nuremberg which r…

One day to go. The 2010 DOAG (German Oracle Users Group) Conference starts tomorrow in the CCN CongressCenter Nuremberg East. There are a c…

I am playing around with JBoss Arquillian these days. Arquillian provides a easy mechanism to test your application code inside a remote o…

Playing around with mobile app development recently one question comes up over and over again: Should I write a native app, rely on the bro…

Here it is. The guide, to making your first steps into the next version of Java we all are waiting for. Let all the others talk about polit…

Its out. Finally. The first beta version of IBM's WebSphere Application Server has arrived. The beta offers an initial glimpse into the…

The NetBeans folks have been busy working on their next release: Milestone 2 of NetBeans 7 is now available and it has a lot to offer: - J…

Seeing all those political stuff on my blog lately I personaly need a break. And what is best? Get your hands dirty :) And this is what I d…