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Want to Write Non-Fiction Better?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 30, 2015
If you write as part of your job, I have a new online workshop starting in March. It’s Writing Workshop 1: Write Non-Fiction to Enhance Your Business and Reputation. Here’s the problem I see. more »
Season's Greetings and Happy New Year from the GlassFish/Java EE Team
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 24, 2015
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. This has been another important year for us. We continued our evangelism efforts worldwide, released GlassFish 4. more »
Java EE @ UberConf 2015
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 23, 2015
UberConf 2015 was held July 21-24 in Denver, Colorado. UberConf has grown to become one of the most significant US developer conferences. Consequently it is an important conference for our team to support. more »
JavaOne 2015 - Another Year, Another Step Forward
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 22, 2015
JavaOne 2015 San Francisco was held October 25-29. I think this was another great year for JavaOne. It is always a privilege to try to do justice to the crucial role of Java EE track lead. more »
Taking Requests for New Edition of Manage Your Project Portfolio
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 22, 2015
I am about to update Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects to a second edition. What would you like me to add? To remove? more »
Java EE 7 in Production at Commerzbank
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 21, 2015
One of the most important things to do at this stage of the life-cycle of Java EE is highlight successful adoption stories at a regular cadence. We have been doing just that for a long time through our adoption stories blog, this humble blog as well as Ja more »
Content Negotiation using 'q' Factors with JAX-RS 2/Java EE 7
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 15, 2015
When we think of HTTP and content negotiation most of us probably immediately think of mime-types. Agreeing upon the mime-type is indeed part of the HTTP conversation between a client and a server. However HTTP has also had an even finer grained content more »
Helping Hardware Be Agile, Part 3
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 15, 2015
The big problem with hardware going agile is that the risks in hardware are not homogeneous. Hardware and mechanical engineering are on different cycles from each other, and they are each different from software. Even with each discipline, the risks are d more »
Helping Hardware Be Agile, Part 2
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 10, 2015
Once you have a roadmap/product backlog for hardware, the teams need to know what to do and when. As a program manager, program product owner, or other interested party, you might want to know where the work is. The roadmap shows the big picture. more »
Please Welcome Siwpas as Java EE Certified Option!
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 7, 2015
Siwpas (short for Simple Web Profile Application Server) has been an interesting project for a little while. Very similar to the more widely known TomEE, Siwpas is a Java EE application server based on Tomcat. In addition to Java EE support Siw more »
Helping Hardware Be Agile, Part 1
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on December 4, 2015
I’m writing like mad, trying to finish the program management book. I’m working on the “Integrating Hardware” chapter. The problem is that hardware comes in several varieties: Mechanical engineering Silicon (part of electrical eng more »
EJB and CDI - Alignment and Strategy
Posted by: Reza Rahman on December 3, 2015
We often get questions related to EJB and CDI, to the convergence (or divergence!) between those 2 important Java EE technologies. That particular topic was discussed a few months ago by Linda De Michiel (Java EE Specification Lead and former JPA Sp more »
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