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JavaOne: Java EE Community Update and Panel
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 29, 2014
At this JavaOne 2014 edition, one of the coolest things Java EE developers might be interested to engage with is definitely the Java EE Community Update and Panel CON2131. In this panel developers will have the opportunity to hear from more »
Managers Manage Ambiguity
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 28, 2014
I was thinking about the Glen Alleman’s post, All Things Project Are Probabilistic. In it, he says, Management is Prediction as a inference from Deming. When I read this quote, If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don more »
Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1: #8 WebSocket Client Reconnect
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 28, 2014
Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1' is a series of posts that highlights specific enhancements of the upcoming GlassFish 4.1 release. more »
Java EE 8 Takes Off!
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 27, 2014
A big day for Java EE - Java EE 8 is now officially launched as JSR 366 via the JCP process. As you might have expected the primary focus areas are HTTP 2/HTML 5 support, CDI/managed bean alignment, cloud support and Java SE alignment. Here is some of more »
MVC 1.0 JSR
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 26, 2014
The Model–View–Controller (MVC) pattern has been used for several decades to implement user interfaces. And when it comes to MVC Web frameworks, those can be categorized as action-based or component-based. JavaServer Faces is a component-based MVC framew more »
A Fresh Look at CDI Events
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 25, 2014
Type safe events have been one of the most elegant and innovative features in CDI for a long time. For some odd reason however they seem to continue to be fairly under-appreciated and not written about that often. It's very good to see CDI specification c more »
Capacity Planning and the Project Portfolio
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 25, 2014
I was problem-solving with a potential client the other day. They want to manage their project portfolio. They use Jira, so they think they can see everything everyone is doing. more »
Java EE @ NFJS Central Iowa Software Symposium Des Moines
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 22, 2014
As some of you may be aware I recently joined the well-respected US based No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Tour. The NFJS Central Iowa Software Symposium was held August 8 - 10 in Des Moines. The Des Moines show is one of the smaller ones but still was good ove more »
Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1: #7 WebSocket Session Throttling and JMX Monitoring
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 21, 2014
'Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1' is a series of posts that highlights specific enhancements of the upcoming GlassFish 4.1 release. more »
Using the Java SE 8 Date Time API with JPA 2.1
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 20, 2014
Most of you are hopefully aware of the new Date Time API included in Java SE 8. If you are not, you should check them out right now using the Java Tutorial Trail dedicated to the topic. It is a significantly leap forward in processing temporal data in Jav more »
Gradle Glam: custom asciidoctor extensions
Posted by: Andres Almiray on August 20, 2014
Today I'd like to bring your attention to asciidoctor-gradle-plugin. This plugin process Asciidoc sources and creates beautiful documentation. It began life on a cold morning back in February of 2013 during the first JFokus Hackergarten, and has taken a l more »
Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1: #6 Java API for WebSocket 1.1
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 19, 2014
'Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1' is a series of posts that highlights specific enhancements of the upcoming GlassFish 4.1 release. more »
Ed Burns' Servlet 4/HTTP 2 Session at JavaOne 2014
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 18, 2014
For the Java EE track at JavaOne 2014 we are highlighting some key sessions and speakers to better inform you of what you can expect, right up until the start of the conference. To this end we recently interviewed Ed Burns. Ed is a veteran of Sun and n more »
Java EE@Java Day Taipei 2014
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 15, 2014
Java Day Taipei 2014 was held at the Taipei International Convention Center on August 1st. Organized by Oracle University, it is one of the largest Java developer events in Taiwan. This was another successful year for Java Day Taipei with a fully sold ou more »
Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1: #5 NetBeans support
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 14, 2014
'Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1' is a series of posts that highlights specific enhancements of the upcoming GlassFish 4.1 release. more »
Introducing DeltaSpike 1.0
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 13, 2014
It is disappointing to come across the occasional mindset that Java EE somehow limits you to using only what is in the standard and nothing more. This is really not the case now and never was. Java EE is intended to provide a stable, open, compatible and more »
People Are Not Resources
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 13, 2014
My manager reviewed the org chart along with the budget. “I need to cut the budget. Which resources can we cut? more »
Worldwide Virtual JMS 2 Hands-on-Lab on Thursday
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 12, 2014
I will be running a JMS 2 hands-on-lab this Thursday the 14th at 1:00 PM EST. Stephen Chin is graciously hosting the lab through his excellent NightHacking virtual worldwide meetups. The goal is to give you some first-hand experience with the primary cha more »
Agile Bootcamp Talk Posted on Slideshare
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 12, 2014
I posted my slides for my Agile 2014 talk, Agile Projects, Program & Portfolio Management: No Air Quotes Required on Slideshare. It’s a bootcamp talk, so the majority of the talk is making sure that people understand the basics about projects. more »
Java Temporary Caching API aka JCache
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 11, 2014
Caching is a key technique for application performance and application scaling. JCache (JSR 107) officially born as the "Java Temporary Caching API" has been largely discussed over the years. The goal of JCache is to be to cache providers what more »
Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1: #4 JAXP accessExternalSchema
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 8, 2014
'Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1' is a series of posts that highlights specific enhancements of the upcoming GlassFish 4.1 rel more »
Java EE 101 Using GlassFish 4 and NetBeans
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 7, 2014
While a lot of folks (our team included) spend most of their efforts spreading the good word on Java EE 7 and now increasingly Java EE 8, sometimes it helps to get back to the basics. This is especially true for beginners to Java EE and GlassF more »
Java EE @ Chicago Coder Conference
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 6, 2014
The Chicago Coder Conference was held on Friday, August 5th. The Chicago/Illinois JUG played a key part in the successful event. The GlassFish team's own John Clingan spoke at the event on Java EE 7 and Java EE 8 more »
How to Avoid Three Big Estimation Traps Posted
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on August 6, 2014
I sent a Pragmatic Manager email last week, How to Avoid Three Big Estimation Traps. If you subscribed, you’d have seen it already. (That was a not-so-subtle hint to subscribe :-) If you’re not sure of the value of being on yet-another-email more »
Gradle Glam: jacoco + coveralls; take 2
Posted by: Andres Almiray on August 5, 2014
This is a quick one. A few days ago I posted how you can configure JaCoCo and Coveralls to work in tandem. However there's a problem with the setup shown in that post, basically coveralls will fail to find the aggregated report file because it's place in more »
JCP News (July)
Posted by: Reza Rahman on August 5, 2014
Welcome to the second installment of the JCP news focused on the server side. And despite the summertime, July has been a busy month! We now have the first Java EE 8 component JSR: JSR more »
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