From the Editor: March 2005 - View Source

LAMP is great, but the first Web development trick you learned is still one of the most important.

Producing Enterprise Architecture:
A Conversation with Sun's Dan Hushon, Part Two In the final part of a two-part interview, Sun Microsystems' Dan Hushon talks about adaptive enterprise architectures, the market for developers, Java Centers of Excellence, and loosely coupled components.

Gut feel
What do you believe is true?

Gut feel
What do you believe is true?

Spring Rich and FlexDock

Caudio Romano has created an administration application for osCommerce leveraging Spring Rich and FlexDock.

He intends to submit his FlexDock/Spring Rich integration back to the Spring Rich project. Maybe FlexDock isn't quite as dormant as I thought. I've had a few emails about it in recent days. Hopefully, Spring Rich integration will get people more interested in what they can do.

It is in the Spring Rich roadmap to offer official integration with docking frameworks through a common set of windowing abstractions. The basic abstractions are in place and people are extending them as in Claudio's case with FlexDock.

Links:

Spring Rich Client Project

FlexDock

Eleritec Docking Documentation(Previous Name of FlexDock)

Logic Explorers CodeLogic for Java 1.5
Nothing can save development time like good documentation. Understanding the big picture allows developers to go deeper faster. CodeLogic 1.5 will allow developers to dynamically generate documentation on the fly. This week Drew Falkman's going to tell us how this new tool stacks up.

Using and Programming Generics in J2SE 5.0
Generics, one of the most frequently requested language extensions to the Java programming language, have been added in J2SE 5.0. This article provides an introduction to programming with generics.

Kirk's October 2004 Roundup
Kirk Pepperdine's roundup of performance discussions over the last month. Kirk covers 5.0 performance, a surprising memory difference, J2EE monitoring, and much more, and also awards another Meadow Muffin award for practices that should not be repeated."how much memory 'new byte[1000000][1]' allocates as opposed to 'new byte[1][1000000]'? Would you be surprised if you were to find out the difference is 1.6MBytes?"

ClientJava.com Links(4) - Swing and Garbage Collection, Application Pl
This is the dumbest thing about JNLP...
I am working on a JNLP app right now, and this has got to be the biggest problem with JNLP. Very frustrating. Take a look at the API entry for the save dialog...

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