In one of my last posts I listed some xml serializers and binding tools. After trying XStream, JAXB, XmlEncoder, Apache Digester and X2JB I decided to create another one: xvantage! Why yet another xml tool? To make it clear: At the moment xvantage is in its early stage (one week old) and I hacked it down in [...]

Do you have tips on the core Java language? Just post them after ‘#javatip‘  like I did to make them searchable for some days (called ‘Trending Topics’). Of course you could do the same for other languages or even frameworks: #rubytip, #railstip, #grailstip, #wickettip, … A tip should be an important or interesting...

Do you have tips on the core Java language? Just post them after ‘#javatip‘  like I did to make them searchable for some days (called ‘Trending Topics’). Of course you could do the same for other languages or even frameworks: #rubytip, #railstip, #grailstip, #wickettip, … A tip should be an important or interesting...

My last post was about pure Swing, which could be easily OSGified. OSGi technologie can be e.g. used to hotdeploy or undeploy jar files to your application server (at the moment only Spring’s server is suggested) or simply to update your Swing application at runtime or write plugins for them. I don’t know for sure, [...]

My last post was about pure Swing, which could be easily OSGified. OSGi technologie can be e.g. used to hotdeploy or undeploy jar files to your application server (at the moment only Spring’s server is suggested) or simply to update your Swing application at runtime or write plugins for them. I don’t know for sure, [...]

There are a lot of OSGi applications out, a minority is for the client side. Here I will list some “on swing”: http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-application-demonstration.html http://danielrohe.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/swing-application-on-osgi/ http://www.toedter.com/blog/?p=33 http://code.google.com/p/osgi-in-action/ Today...

There are a lot of OSGi applications out, a minority is for the client side. Here I will list some “on swing”: http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-application-demonstration.html http://danielrohe.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/swing-application-on-osgi/ http://www.toedter.com/blog/?p=33 http://code.google.com/p/osgi-in-action/ Today...

Yesterday and the day before I tried the unbelievable: I used not my favourite IDE NetBeans (6.7) – I used IntelliJ Idea (8.1). Five months ago I got the free license from Jetbrains for my open source timetabling application called TimeFinder, but I hadn’t the time to try it out. And why should I? People from [...]

Yesterday and the day before I tried the unbelievable: I used not my favourite IDE NetBeans (6.7) – I used IntelliJ Idea (8.1). Five months ago I got the free license from Jetbrains for my open source timetabling application called TimeFinder, but I hadn’t the time to try it out. And why should I? People from [...]

I don’t know why (maybe performance issues?) but since some months sourceforge forces one to create a new shell every time you want to access it, which takes up to 2 minutes. This is really annoying. Let me explain this in more detail. If I try to log in: ssh USER”at”shell.sourceforge.net normally one could directly access the...

I don’t know why (maybe performance issues?) but since some months sourceforge forces one to create a new shell every time you want to access it, which takes up to 2 minutes. This is really annoying. Let me explain this in more detail. If I try to log in: ssh USER”at”shell.sourceforge.net normally one could directly access the...

From the website: “Is it easy for you to play with a software and find a defect? If you are an experienced NetBeans user and if you find few hours per week from September through November you can join other community volunteers in NetCAT 6.8 program. Get your favorite NetBeans bug fixed and find new friends.” [...]

From the website: “Is it easy for you to play with a software and find a defect? If you are an experienced NetBeans user and if you find few hours per week from September through November you can join other community volunteers in NetCAT 6.8 program. Get your favorite NetBeans bug fixed and find new friends.” [...]

The built in collections for Java are quit performant and nice to use. But are there alternatives? And if so, why should I use them? (Please use the comment functionality ) The following collection implementations I found on the web: GNU trove (LGPL) Commons Collections aka Jakarta Collection (Apache license) Google collections (Apache license)...

The built in collections for Java are quit performant and nice to use. But are there alternatives? And if so, why should I use them? (Please use the comment functionality ) The following collection implementations I found on the web: GNU trove (LGPL) Commons Collections aka Jakarta Collection (Apache license) Google collections (Apache license)...