Provocative title, I know. But this is what my mind came up with, reading about @EdBurns latest survey where the JSF EG asks the community: " Should we deprecate Managed Beans in #JSF 2.2? ". Seeing the first intermediate direction from today, it…
Continue ReadingA short notice about my latest article about GlassFish 3.1. The recent issue of German iX magazine (05/2011) is published today and you can get a digital copy by the end of the month from their archive . The article introduces you to the basic clustering fea…
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JavaOne 2011 NOT back to Moscone
Yesterday Oracle announced, what we all were expecting. JavaOne 2011 will be in the exact same place than the more or less disastrous 2010 version. It will be located in downtown San Francisco and takes place in parallel with Oracle OpenWorld. To be honest, t…

Just a short notice. You can find a new article of mine in the latest Java Tech Journal (former JAXmag) issue. In last month's Java EE 6-centric issue of Java Tech Journal , we looked at in-container testing for Java EE, with the Arquillian test framework…
Continue ReadingYesterday, Oracle released the latest evolution of Coherence, their flagship, distributed in-memory data grid product Oracle Coherence 3.7. Coherence 3.7 simplifies the configuration and management of large-scale deployments and provides more data storage cap…
Continue ReadingA very short notice: RichFaces 4.0.0.Final is running smoothly on WebLogic server 10.3.4.0. Need a brief howto? Here you are: - Download RichFaces 4.0.0.Final distribution - unzip to a suitable location - navigate to \richfaces-4.0.0.Final\examples\richfa…
Continue ReadingHave you ever been struggling with the percentage of test coverage in your projects? It's essential for all development projects to not only have a good feeling about your overall test coverage but to have some tool at hand to resilient number at hand for…
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