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Java EE @ ConFoo 2016
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 28, 2016
ConFoo 2016 took place 24-26 February in Montreal, Canada. To my knowledge it is the largest developer conference north of the border. The conference has roots in PHP, but has been making an effort to better attract a Java audience hence it was important more »
The next VTS round is fast approaching!
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 26, 2016
Virtual Technology Summit is a set of free online events covering a wide variety of technical topics (Java, Middleware, Database, IoT, etc.). And there is something for everyone (see full agenda). more »
Java EE 7 Proves Effective for Mission-Critical E-Payment Systems
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 22, 2016
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 »
Evolving from J2EE to Java EE 6 and Java EE 7 at Gam Electronics
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 19, 2016
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 »
Java EE @ DevNexus 2016
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 18, 2016
DevNexus 2016 was held in historic Atlanta on February 15-17. For those of you not familiar with it, DevNexus is the most significant Java centric (but not Java focused) conference in the South Eastern US and now perhaps even at a national level. It was s more »
Stuck in the Middle with Your Agile Transformation? Part 1
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 16, 2016
Here’s something I see in many organizations: Management wants to “control and manage” the projects/efforts/work (whatever they call it) in the same way they did before the organization started agile. They want Gantt charts. They want co more »
Stuck in the Middle with Your Agile Transformation? Part 2
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 16, 2016
In Stuck in the Middle, Part 1, I discussed possible management problems with agile. Those aren’t the only stuck problems I see. Sometimes, I see team problems. more »
Stuck in the Middle with Your Agile Transformation? Part 3
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 16, 2016
In part 1, I addressed some management challenges with an agile transition. In part 2, I addressed some team issues. In this part, I’ll discuss why agile is a culture change and ways to consider a system change to agile. more »
Java EE in Practice for Secure Online Voting at Scytl
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 10, 2016
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 »
Cargo Tracker Java EE 7 Blue Prints Now Running on WebLogic
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 9, 2016
For those unaware the Cargo Tracker project exists to serve as a blue print for developing decently designed Java EE 7 applications, principally utilizing Domain-Driven Design (DDD). The project has long run on GlassFish 4 and Java SE 7. The project was r more »
Thinking About Servant Leadership and Agile Project Management
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 9, 2016
For many people, agile means an end to all project management. I disagree. I find value in servant leadership in project management. more »
Revamping the Security API in Java EE 8
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 8, 2016
JAAS, JASPIC, JACC. If those acronyms do not sound familiar, you are in good company. I have been developing with Java EE for almost two decades and I was not terribly familiar with them until I seriously started thinking about revamping Java EE security more »
Some Interesting Real World CDI Usage Statistics
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 5, 2016
The good folks over at Genuitec developing MyEclipse recently asked the Twittersphere about real world CDI usage. They ran a week-long Twitter survey asking the simple question - "Do you use CDI in your Java EE applications?". more »
What Does Agile Mean to You?
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 5, 2016
Over on Techwell, my monthly column is Agile Does Not Equal Scrum: Know the Difference. I wrote the article because I am tired of people saying “Agile/Scrum” as if Scrum was the only way to do agile. I use iterations, kanban, and the XP techni more »
Migrating from Java EE 5 to Java EE 7 at Segurnet Portugal
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 3, 2016
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 »
Value of Burndown and Burnup Charts
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on February 2, 2016
I met a team recently who was concerned about their velocity. They were always “too late” according to their manager. I asked them what they measured and how. more »
HTTP/2 and Servlet 4 in Java EE 8
Posted by: Reza Rahman on February 1, 2016
HTTP is very easily the most important standard in server-side Java. The much awaited HTTP/2 standard is now complete, was fifteen years in the making and promises to radically speed up the entire web through a series of fundamental protocol optimizations more »
Running TestFX tests in headless mode
Posted by: Andres Almiray on February 1, 2016
For the past few months I've been working on a JavaFX based product that has lots of bells and whistles. Last week we succeeded in setting up functional tests using TestFX. While everything was working fine on a developer's machine (see this for more info more »
EJB3 @Lock Annotation for CDI Beans
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 29, 2016
The EJB 3 @Lock annotation is pretty unique, interesting and useful. It provides an elegant declarative way of controlling concurrency for beans that can be shared across multiple threads such as singletons. As of Java EE 7 the annotation is only availabl more »
Influential Agile Leader, Boston and London, 2016
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 28, 2016
Is your agile transition proceeding well? Or, is it stuck in places—maybe the teams aren’t improving, maybe the people are multitasking, maybe you are tired and don’t know how you’ll find the energy to continue. You are the kind of more »
Java EE @ Oredev
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 27, 2016
Oredev 2015 was held on 3-6 November in Malmo Sweden. This was my third time at the largest IT conference in the Scania region. The conference is rooted in . more »
Four Tips for Pair Writing
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 27, 2016
I am shepherding an experience report for XP 2016. A shepherd is sort-of like a technical editor. I help the writer(s) tell their story in the best possible way. more »
Migrating from Tomcat to Java EE and TomEE at Dassault Systemes
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 25, 2016
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 »
AngularBeans: Java EE 7/CDI Integration with AngularJS
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 21, 2016
In the highly volatile world of JavaScript frameworks, AngularJS has managed to maintain a lead at least for now. The good news for Java EE developers is that Java EE generally and Java EE 7 in particular works extremely well as a back-end for frameworks more »
Four Tips to Writing Better and Faster
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 19, 2016
A colleague asked me for some tips about writing. With hundreds of articles, blog posts, and 10 books, I know what works for me. I suspect some of these ideas will work for you, too. more »
Java EE @ Java Day Mexico
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 14, 2016
Java2Days 2015 was held on November 2-4 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is far and away the largest Java conference in the Balkans region and now perhaps one of the most important conferences in Europe as a whole. This was another great year for this rapidly growi more »
Hypermedia/HATEOAS Support in JAX-RS 2/Java EE 7
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 13, 2016
The concepts of Hypermedia and HATEOAS (shorthand for the mouthful of "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State") have made the rounds in the REST ecosystem for a little while now. If you Google around a bit you'll find no shortage of more »
Public Workshops in 2016
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 12, 2016
I have several public workshops this year. I’m offering the Influential Agile Leader with Gil Broza April 6-7, 2016 in Boston and May 4-5, 2016 London. If you have not read some of my writing about leadership, take a look at these previous newslette more »
Java EE in Practice at Lufthansa Industry Solutions
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 11, 2016
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 »
Meet SnoopEE, a Discovery Service for Java EE
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 8, 2016
SnoopEE is a very interesting grass roots open source Java EE ecosystem project. Akin to NetFlixOSS Eureka it enables microservices discovery, lookup and registration. SnoopEE is developed by Java EE advocate, JCP expert, speaker and blogger Ivar Grimstad more »
Java EE @ Java Day Mexico
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 5, 2016
Java Day Mexico 2015 was held on August 29 in historic Guadalajara. I was truly honored to be invited to speak here and this is a very fitting first trip report of the year. Java Day Mexico is the largest Java developer conference in Mexico and it is led more »
Adam Bien Impressed by Java EE 7 Support in WebLogic
Posted by: Reza Rahman on January 4, 2016
As many of you are aware WebLogic 12.2.1 now offers full Java EE 7 commercial support. more »
Architects as Servant Leaders
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on January 4, 2016
As more teams and organizations transition to agile, they discover something important about leadership. Leadership is part of everything we do in an agile project. It doesn’t matter if it’s development or testing, management or architecture. more »
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