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August 2003

JMeter – The developer's 2nd best friend

August 31, 2003

The JMeter group just released v1.9.1 of their product and this is a huge improvement over the last 1.8.x release. For the uninitiated, JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application written in Swing designed to test your application. I think of it as a poor-man's regression and load testing tool. You [...]

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Microsoft Architect Touts SOAs –

August 27, 2003

Found this thread on TSS that referred to an eWeek article where Don Box, formerly of Develop Mentor and current Architect for XML Messaging @ Microsoft talks about SOA. To paraphrase the article, Don Box says that the world of services and service-oriented architectures will eclipse object-oriented programming and OO will become irrelevant.
ok. What's [...]

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Blogs go mainsteam –

August 27, 2003

It has been a strange ride for blogs and bloggers. First Google, then the NY Times and now AOL. In case you have not heard, AOL launched a new feature called AOL Journals in an effort to stop the bleeding. AOL has been losing many customers to broadband and other [...]

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JavaServer Faces (JSF) – Fact or Fiction

August 18, 2003

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is currently being heralded as the next big thing in arena of web development. As you probably know, JSF is a framework for building user interfaces for web applications. JavaServer Faces technology includes a set of standard widgets and API's for managing their state, handling events and input validation along with [...]

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GenJar – Java app deployment made easy –

August 14, 2003

I'm not sure if I was the only one that didn't know about this, but I discovered GenJar today on the Java-writers list via. Erik Hatcher's post.
GenJar is distributed as a jar file that holds a bunch of ant tasks. The task is designed to recursively examine each class file in your project, [...]

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WS-I Announces General Availability of the Basic Profile 1.0

August 12, 2003

In the first step towards the utopian vision of interoperability, the Web services Interoperability organization (WS-I) group announced the release of the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0.
The Basic Profile 1.0 consists of implementation guidelines on how core Web services specifications should be used together to develop interoperable Web services. The specs covered by this release [...]

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Apache Geronimo vs. The World

August 8, 2003

It was just a few days ago when I first read the press release from the Apache Software Foundation announcing the creation of Geronimo. I was musing about this in my blog earlier in the week.
It has really been very interesting following the debate around the whole issue of Apache jumping in the J2EE [...]

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Java & C#

August 6, 2003

Having been a Java developer since 1995, I really haven't programmed in any other language since then. I did some Perl/PHP development in the early web days as CGI's, but that was pretty simple form parsing stuff. In fact, I started teaching Java @ Marquette University in 1996 and I actually found [...]

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BEA unveils Linux Resource Center & Apache Geronimo –

August 5, 2003

BEA unveils the Linux Resource Center which answers questions about BEA's strategy on Linux, pros/cons of Linux and the breadth of support of Linux for the WebLogic products. The FAQ has an interesting little tidbit about internal migration to Linux. I wish they would share more information on their internal applications and [...]

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The C# Design Process

August 5, 2003

Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about the process used by the team that designed C#, and the relative merits of usability studies and good taste in language design.
Great interview and a must read. Check it out – The C# Design Process
Web Design Agency [...]

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BEA joins forces with HP on Linux push –

August 4, 2003

Another smart move on the part of BEA Systems in partnering with HP and pushing Linux to lower the total cost of ownership of the whole application stack and platform. Saw this article on CNET's News.com and this is great news. According to the press release, HP and BEA will create bundles of [...]

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Meet the new JBoss, same as the old JBoss :)

August 4, 2003

ok ok. So I am taking a little liberty with the old 'The Who' classic song Won't get fooled again. Just saw this article on Javaworld titled Meet the new JBoss and all I could think of was Pete Townsend's guitar solo. Ok. Maybe it's just me.
Back to reality — [...]

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[OT] Formula 1 – Montoya reigns supreme in Germany

August 3, 2003

I guess this is a little off-topic, but I spent a lot of my Sunday watching Juan Pablo Montoya kick butt and win the Germany Grand Prix.
http://www.bmw-motorsport.com/ms/en/index.html – BMW MotorSports

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Coding Standards – Part Deux

August 1, 2003

Just caught this item while making my daily visit to Cedric's blog. The note titled, Coding conventions is Cedric's response to Hani's rant about coding standards. I was just thinking about this topic earlier and I happen to completely agree with Cedric's comments. His points are (and I'm paraphrasing)People that are [...]

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Pragmatic Version Control

August 1, 2003

Boy am I am tired this morning. Stayed up way past my bedtime reading the draft of Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt's new book called 'Pragmatic Version Control'. In fact, I overslept and missed the Spider's Geek book club this morning.
Back to Pragmatic Version Control – I met Dave at [...]

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