Category Archives: JavaMedia
Alternatives for Maven, Building With Less Frustration
Reader Nacho Coloma got me thinking. A few weeks ago he mentioned Gradle as an alternative for Maven. Now I’m not ready to throw out Maven, but the alternatives are at least interesting. Most popular alternatives have one thing in common: they shy away from XML in favor of domain specific languages (DSLs). Those DSLs [...]
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9 of my Best Posts On Java, a Streamhead Anthology
In this post, a summary of some of the most interesting posts that have appeared on this blog related to Java. There’s a bit for everyone, there’s some Maven and Android, as some good documentation resources. And something about Java applets, because, for some odd reason, I still like them.
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Maven, Spring, Vaadin and Google AppEngine, Happy Together
In true open source spirit, I scratched my itch. No, not that itch. If you complain about open source projects, you have all the tools at your disposal to fix the problem yourself. Last week, I posted that it’s not straightforward at all to make Spring, Google AppEngine (GAE) and Vaadin work together in Eclipse. [...]
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Google AppEngine, Vaadin, Spring, a Match Not Made in Heaven
Over the last month, I’ve been learning more and more about Vaadin. I’ve also become more and more convinced that this could be the future of rich Internet application development for Java. Vaadin is an incredible powerful framework that solves many of the front-end difficulties developers have to deal with.
In this regard, Vaadin is the [...]
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WAMP, An Acronym That Actually Makes Developers’ Lives Easier
A WAMP packages, is a software package that runs in Windows and includes an Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL database and PHP running on the server. If you want the cheapest way to run a website, it is probably the way to go. Although the LAMP version (which runs on Linux) might save you just [...]
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Vaadin, a Different Way to Promote a Great GWT Toolkit
Until Devoxx, I had never heard of Vaadin. Vaadin is a Java framework built on top of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to further simplify the creation of modern and user friendly web applications. While GWT already abstracts away many of the JavaScript details, Vaadin further hides most of the client/server communication.
The way I got [...]
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5 of My Favorite DZone Refcardz
If you haven’t heard of the DZone Refcardz and you are a developer, consider this your Christmas present. From me to you. DZone has been producing those little cheat sheets for a while now and they have built up a pretty nice collection. Each refcard contains a condensed overview of a certain piece of technology [...]
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Maven Simplifies Seam and Facelets Development, if You Can Handle the XML
As part of my digitization and cleanup effort, I’m going through a lot of documents. One document I discovered is an old printout of a Coffeecrew tutorial. The document on Facelets, Seam, NetBeans and Glassfish was their first and last foray into English howto’s. Which is too bad, because it is high quality and has [...]
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GlassFish Application Server Development with NetBeans
The GlassFish v3 preview offers a glimpse at Java EE 6 and some of the benefits it will bring. Fast redeployment alone is worth taking a look at this new server. But Java EE 6 also standardizes many features that make life of a developer a lot easier. Most of those have been available in [...]
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Obtaining Services and Repositories in Vaadin