The special days in the year are finally there. After some excitement during the latest early access and internal preview actions I was involved it is finally time to fly to San Francisco and see all that stuff being announced at the annual Oracle conferences…
Continue ReadingIt is weekend. Not my typical time for publishing blog-posts. I tend to write them but publishing is done during the week. This might be a different kind of post because I read the Javalobby post about " Oracle and Maven " this morning and I was won…
Continue ReadingI initially thought I could write this post months back already. But I ended up being overwhelmed by different things. One among them was, that it wasn't able to simply fire up the RichFaces showcase like I did it for the 4.0 release. With all the JMS mag…
Continue ReadingAnother article for my German readers hit the road today. I was looking into Java Batch. All about the basic concepts and different approaches to make this more transparent to us Java developers. Have fun reading it! Serial Offender Many Java programmers…
Continue ReadingThis is a review I am very pleased to write. My friend Arun published the Java EE 6 pocket guide and it will be at your hands as early as you can order. I knew about the book quite early, because I had the pleasure to review it and I am thankful for the chanc…
Continue ReadingBeing back home it is time to summarize my latest trip a bit. I was in Oslo, Norway for JavaZone, which is the biggest meeting place for software developers in Scandinavia, and one of Europe's most important conferences. JavaZone has been described as a h…
Continue ReadingOne more to go until my " Heroes of Java " series reaches the 20. No 19 is reserved for "Mr.Time and Date". With him also being nominated for this years annual JCP Awards as "Member of the Year" I finally had the chance to send …
Continue ReadingEven if the Java EE 7 EG decided to postpone the PaaS features to EE 8, Oracle itself is actively working on a Java EE driven public PaaS offering. This is known since some time now and you also might have read about my first test-drives with NetBeans in the…
Continue ReadingPrimeFaces 3.4 came out three days ago. Beside the usual awesomeness of new and updated components it also includes the new PrimeFaces Push framework. Based on Atmosphere this is providing easy push mechanisms to your applications. Here is how to configure …
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