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Hackergarten: 2014 in review
Posted by: Andres Almiray on December 30, 2014
2014 has been an incredible year for Hackergarten! To begin with, the original group in Basel had consistent meetings throughout the year, with half of the total people attending being new to the group. We were having so much fun at Basel that Anatole Tre more »
How Do You Serve Your Organization?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 29, 2014
A recent coaching client was concerned about the progress his team was making—or really, the lack of progress his team was making. We spoke about the obstacles he had noticed. “The team doesn’t have time to write automated tests. more »
Manage Your Project Portfolio is Featured in Colombia’s Largest Business Newspaper
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 18, 2014
Andy Hunt, the Pragmatic Bookshelf publisher, just sent me an email telling me that Manage Your Project Portfolio is featured in La República, Columbia’s “first and most important business newspaper.” That’s because getabstract lik more »
Team Competition is Not Friendly
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 15, 2014
I once worked in an organization where the senior managers thought they should motivate us, the team members. They decided to have a team competition, complete with prizes. I was working on a difficult software problem with a colleague on another team. more »
Season's Greetings and Happy New Year from the GlassFish/Java EE Team!
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 12, 2014
On behalf of the GlassFish and Java EE team at Oracle I wish you and your family Season's Greetings and a very Happy New Year! I am very happy to say this has been yet another busy and eventful year for us. We finished the community survey effort to more »
Named and Dynamic Binding in JAX-RS 2
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 11, 2014
Providers, interceptors and filters are excellent mechanisms to bring pluggability and cross-cutting concerns to JAX-RS. By default these artifacts are applied globally to all available JAX-RS resource methods. This is probably fine for the most part but more »
Adopt-a-JSR for Java EE 8 Spinning Up
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 10, 2014
As some of you may be aware, Adopt-a-JSR was a very innovative JUG-led program that was initiated during the later parts of the Java EE 7 time-frame. The goal of the program is to make it as easy as possible for rank-and-file Java developers to contribute more »
When Should You Move from Iterations to Flow?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 10, 2014
I’m writing part of the program management book, talking about how you need to keep everything small to maintain momentum. Sometimes, to keep your work small, teams move from iterations to flow. Here are times when you might consider moving from ite more »
JavaOne 2014: A Small Step in the Right Direction?
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 10, 2014
JavaOne 2014 San Francisco was held September 28 – October 2. I think this was a particularly good year for JavaOne in many ways and it's certainly been a privilege to try to do justice to the crucial role of Java EE track lead (a role I took on for the more »
Desktop|Embedded Application API JSR
Posted by: Andres Almiray on December 9, 2014
It's been a few weeks since I posted the announcement regarding the New Desktop Application Framework JSR and its follow up Q & A. Some of you may be wondering: what's going on now? Well since the time these post were made public I've been in touch w more »
The Java 7 EE Tutorial - free eBook!
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 4, 2014
The Java EE 7 Documentation page has been recently refreshed with an improved and cleaner layout. It should now be easier to locate, browse and read the Java EE API documentation, the Java EE SDK documentation and the Java EE Tutorials. It is more »
JMS 2.0 Errata release
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 2, 2014
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Who Removes Your Obstacles?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 2, 2014
In self-organizing teams, teams remove their own obstacles. It’s a good idea. It can be difficult in practice. more »
Bulk Update/Delete using the Criteria API in JPA 2.1/Java EE 7
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 1, 2014
It has long been possible to do bulk updates and deletes using JPQL in JPA. Since JPQL is closely modeled after SQL, it has the key advantages that SQL does - namely that it is a very compact and powerful DSL for relational data manipulation. JPQL is als more »
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