Technology

In this three-part article series, detailed use cases show how OpenSSO server and policy agents can improve a user’s experience with access control.

This Tech Tip highlights the new locking and concurrency features in JPA 2.0 and provides an application that demonstrates these capabilities.

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Project Shoal is the GMS (Group Management System) technology behind the GlassFish 2.x and Sailfin clustering features but it is also a standalone project which has just shipped version 1.1 (announcement). New features include new health state [...]

Not a personal rant or complaining about my quite broken situation this time, this post is about a friend:

Start with one generously sized conference room. Fill it to capacity with language and VM implementors. Stir vigorously for three days, folding in talks and workshops in successive layers. Garnish with professional videography. Yield: One JVM Language Summit, about 80 servings.  …

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Some voters in this past week’s java.net poll questioned whether the question could be answered, but the result showed that a plurality of voters considered Europe to be region where Java has the greatest market share among competing technologies. A total of 268 votes were cast. [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’ve been enlightened. A while ago - I just checked, it was actually 2006! - I read Cay’s Elvis Meets GlassFish and I thought it was a cute reference to The King. Then yesterday I noticed that Byron’s [...]

Yesterday, a Hudson committer Alan Harder discovered an EOFException in Hudson, which only happens on 64bit JVM on Solaris. This was happening in the part of Hudson (or more precisely, in a separate library called Akuma) where we look at the memory space of the process to figure out the command line arguments of the [...]

Dear lazyweb: I need a simple job queue. I would like to have a system _similar_ to the ‘at’ command, with the difference that it does not execute the job at a specific time, but queues jobs into a queue, and executes one after the other. Even though ‘man at’ says it uses queues, they [...]

This made me smile and, while I probably can’t compete with Mario, I don’t smile so much lately. Geertjan Wielenga posted a blog about a cool application created using the NetBeans RCP…and JFreeChart. It’s about cows. What’s cool to me is not (just) that it has to do with cows, but [...]

The Java EE 5 Tools Bundle has been updated with NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 and NetBeans Portal Pack 3.0.2. Download now.

So, you are a happy GlassFish user and want to show your appreciation? First option would be to become a customer but if you are in a hurry and/or are short in cash, consider joining the LinkedIn and/or FaceBook groups.
Thanks for taking the time. [...]

So, you are a happy GlassFish user and want to show your appreciation? First option would be to become a customer but if you are in a hurry and/or are short in cash, consider joining the LinkedIn and/or FaceBook groups.
Thanks for taking the time. [...]

Last night, I listened to this nice podcast on Maxine JVM from Software Engineering Radio. Maxine is a Java Virtual Machine implemented in the Java programming language.

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: On the Artima Developer site, Andy Dent recently posted today’s lead Java Today item, Why Learn New Languages? Being Outlived by C++. Andy is 46 years old, considers himself to have about 20-25 years of full-time work remaining in his career, plans to remain in software engineering, and [...]