The news came out yesterday. Java EE 7 is going to be realigned and the PaaS enablement and multi-tenancy support will be moved to Java EE 8. While the email to the EG and the linked Aquarium post are only proposals the first EG members (including me) alread…
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What a surprise! I am nominated for the 10th JCP Annual Awards . It is especially true since I am following the JCP for a long time now and finally managed to actually contribute by officially joining it. On the one side as a German iJUG representative but a…
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Java Champions at JavaOne 2012
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Everybody is doing some kind of preparation for JavaOne and Oracle OpenWorld these days already. Only a few more weeks to go and you should have your accommodation ready by now. Next on my schedule for conference preparation is to look for good content. Why n…
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It has been a while since I last looked at the quality of the three major JSF component libraries. In December 2009 I started a comparison of the overall software quality of RichFaces, Primefaces and ICEfaces. Things have changed since than and I wanted to r…
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For your reading pleasure. I mean, as long as you can read and understand German. A new article of mine was published in the mouthpiece of the German Java User Groups, Java Aktuell . This is kind of an early announcement: The No4 (winter edition) will be …
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A great topic for modern application development is rewriting. Since the introduction of Java Server Faces and the new lightweight programming model in Java EE 6 you are struggling with pretty and simple, bookmarkable URLs. PrettyFaces was out there since so…
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Today is resource bundle day. This is the most well known mechanism for internationalization (i18n) in Java in general. Working with it should be a breeze. But there are many little questions that come up while getting your hands dirty with it. If you are fee…
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Thought I share this one with you :) During my visit to JUDCon we recorded an interview about Arquillian and my engagement with the project. Thanks again for the great time there! It was a pleasure!
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The " Heroes of Java " series has a run these days. Sacha took some of his precious time and joint as no. 19. Most of you know him from his JBoss time. Sacha Labourey founded the European headquarters for JBoss and, as GM for Europe, led the st…
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GlassFish City Revisited
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More than a year ago I looked at GlassFish from a very high level point of view and did a 3D analysis of the source code. Today I feel like updating the model and re-running the analysis. The way we are looking at Code On a day to day basis we are looking…
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Staying strong, the " Heroes of Java " series reaches the 18th edition. This time it is about Çağatay Çivici who is the inventor and lead developer of my favorite JSF component library Primefaces. Çağatay Çivici is a member of JavaServer Faces …
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Who expected that to happen: Oracle is working on a public cloud offering and the signs of the approaching official launch are there. Nearly a year after the official announcement I was invited to join the so called "Early Access" program to test-d…
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