As announced a few days ago, EclipseCon delivers details about the future directions of GlassFish. After the first details came up yesterday, there was a more detailed session today. As always, this is only second hand information, as I am not affiliated to O…
Continue ReadingAgain some personal advertising here. German iX magazin ( http://www.ix.de ) published a new article in my recent Java EE 6 series in the upcomming 04/2010 issue. It is an overview about the new dependency injection mechanisms in Java EE 6. (available from to…
Continue ReadingNext in my GSW series is a topic I want to write about since some time. One of my co-workers left the company (never will get it, why ;)) and moved on to a Groovy company. After having heard him talking about the "fancy" part in Groovy I was looki…


Your Firefox, your Oracle style!
FireFox 3.6.2 is available . This was my start to play around with a new feature available since some time. It is called Personas . Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that change the look of your Firefox web browser. There are thousands of Perso…
Continue ReadingFeatured ACE on Arch2Arch
This nearly slipped though my inbox ;) I was featured in the March 2010 edition of the Oracle Arch2Arch newsletter. This newsletter is driven by the famous and always listening Bob Rhubart ( @brhubart ). He is the Manager of the Architect Community at O…


clouds ... word clouds ...
Clouds ... that is what I read in the media these days. I am shure, that we have to stand this hype for some more time until we see the next one. Anyway .. I have not too much time these days for postings or other bigger contributions to the community. I do …
Continue ReadingAs promised, the next GSW will be dedicated to GlassFish v3. Conceded, I am not a fan of GlassFish since the beginning. Our friendship had a difficult start. But let's forget about this for now and focus on things that makes it more easier for beginners t…

You may find some usefull posts on this blog from time to time. Most of them are solutions or information to or about problems I came across in daily work. Recently a co-worker told me: "You have some great posts, but I don't have a clue how and wher…

myfear flame
myfear flame , originally uploaded by myfear . Ok. Here we are :) This is an awesome webbased tool. You can create any kind of flames with it. Flash Java! (Thanks to @alexismp , my bad fault ...) based. I totally fell in love with it :) Make your own: …
Continue ReadingI did some architecture reviews in the past. Most of them internal but also for my company's clients. At the end of the day this always has been and probably always will be a thankless job. For many reasons. This post was thought of as an incomplete list …
