Saturday, June 10, 2017

Java 9 Recipes Published!

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A bit ahead of schedule, my latest book entitled Java 9 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, has just been published! This book is the...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Testing the Java EE 8 Specifications

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The Java EE 8 Platform has definitely been moving along within the past couple of months.  Specifications have been releasing early draft re...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

JSR 365 Update: Digging Into CDI 2.0

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Contexts and Dependency Injection 2.0 ( JSR 365 ), is an update to CDI 1.2, which is currently part of the Java EE 7 platform.  It is curren...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

JavaOne 2016 Follow-Up

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I had the pleasure of attending JavaOne this year, and I can sum up the experience in one word:  Brilliant.  This year was much different th...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

NetBeans Java EE 8 MVC Plugin Enhancements

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A while back, Geertjan Wielenga had posted about a NetBeans plugin that had been developed for the upcoming Java EE 8 MVC framework.  The p...
Friday, July 15, 2016

NetBeans 8.2 Profiler: Colored Results

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One of the new features in NetBeans 8.2 is the ability to color profiler results differently based upon filters.  This can make things visua...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Help Move Java EE Forward

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If you recall my post entitled Java EE 8:  What is the Current Status , it is apparent that the progression on Java EE has certainly slowed ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

NetBeans Java EE Tip #9: Create JSF Application from Database

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Do you need to create an database front-end very quickly?  The NetBeans IDE allows one to develop a JSF application front end for a set of d...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Working with Mojarra Maven Builds

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Some great updates have been made to the Mojarra repository in the past couple of months.  The JSF 2.3 Milestone 5 release has been availab...

NetBeans Java EE Tip #8: Persistence Units

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The foundational goals of any good IDE are to simply and organize one's code and development workflow.  NetBeans does a superb job of ac...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

NetBeans SQL Profiler - Take it for a Spin!

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The upcoming release of NetBeans, currently in active development and testing, boasts plenty of new features.  A few of them include EMCAScr...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Java EE 8, What is the Current Status: Case Study for Completed Work Since Late 2015

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For anyone who pays close attention to Java EE, it has become clear in the past six months that there has been a decline of activity...espec...
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Thursday, April 07, 2016

NetBeans Java EE Tip #7: Overlooked Java Class and XHTML Editor Shortcuts

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Sometimes the most helpful features of an IDE are the most overlooked.  In this post, I will outline five NetBeans Java and XHTML editor sh...
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

NetBeans Java EE Tip #6: Create WebSocket Endpoint

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The introduction of WebSocket support with the release of Java EE 7 provided a means for utilizing full duplex communication in your Java EE...
Friday, March 11, 2016

NetBeans Java EE Tip #5 - Custom Bean Validation Constraints

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Bean Validation was added to the Java EE platform with the release of Java EE 6.  It brings a standard means of easily performing annotation...