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

Beating Spam and Viruses with amavisd-new and Maia Mailguard
Think you can't afford best-of-breed spam and virus protection for your business? Here are two good reasons to think again.

[ 14 Jan ][ News ]: NetBeans Profiler Beta (Milestone 4) Released
The Profiler is an add-on to NetBeans 4.1, 4.0 or 3.6, and adds a fully featured CPU, memory and threads profiling capabilities, tightly integrated into the IDE workflow.Visit http://profiler.netbeans.org to download or get more information.See important note below for JDK 5.0 users.Key featuresTight integration into the NetBeans IDE workflow.Low overhead profiling utilizing the JFluid technology.Task-based approach to simplified profiling.CPU performance profiling.Memory profiling &memory leak detection.Attaching to running (deployed) application.Thread profiling.New in Milestone 4Configurable filters for CPU instrumentation, allowing to further reduce the profiling overhead based on package names.Configurable filters for displaying results, which allows much easier evaluation of the profiling results by focusing on specific packages, classes or methods.Enhanced integration with NetBeans 4.0 and 4.1, providing direct support for J2SE and Freeform project types and easier integration with other project types via custom profiling Ant tasks.A number of bugfixes.More detailed information at http://profiler.netbeans.org/docs/help/whatsnew-m4.htmlJDK 5.0 usersThe profiler currently requires that the profiled application runs in a modified Hotspot JVM (included with the profiler module). As this JVM is based on a Hotspot 1.4.2 JVM, you cannot profile applications that use the new JDK 5.0 ("Tiger") features. Even if you do not use any of the new features, JDK 5.0 will by default create bytecodes that cannot run on earlier versions of the JVM. You will have to make sure the IDE compiler uses the "-source 1.4"option to be able to profile code compiled in the IDE.

Ease of Development in Enterprise JavaBeans Technology
Learn about the ease-of-development features that are being planned for EJB 3.0 technology.

Chat Transcript: New Language Features in J2SE 5.0
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0. includes the biggest set of language changes since the original release of the Java programming language. Read what two key members of the core Java team had to say about these features in this recent question and answer session.

Create Barcode ON THE FLY using JBarcodeBean

Create Barcode ON THE FLY using JBarcodeBean
JBarcodeBean is a JFC Swing-compatible JavaBeans component that lets you barcode-enable Java 2 enterprise applications...

See a nice reusable Swing component. We need more of these.

iText Document Generator: PDF Generation Made Easy
Finally, there's an application server that provides PDF document-generation support. This Java-based API can be used to simultaneously generate PDF, rich text, and HTML documents.

gnuLinEx 2004 Launched
The LinEx operating system is more than a localized Debian version; it's an essential part of a much bigger project.

The Architecture of Eclipse

The Architecture of Eclipse
Every Object-Oriented developer should study the architecture of Eclipse. Everyone who learns Object Oriented Programming (OOP) learns it from the perspective of "programming in the small". That is, they know it from the point of view of developing programs by a single developer or a small team of developer. However, when you have tens to hundreds of developers then a lot of tried and true ideas of OOP simply break down and cannot scale.

I'll agree that anyone serious in desktop development should take a look at Eclipse as well as Netbeans Platform. Regardless of whether you are using Swing, SWT, or some other GUI toolkit the general architecture patterns are worth absorbing.