Migrating a WebLogic EJB Application to JBoss   09 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
WebLogic and JBoss both offer powerful and popular EJB servers, but they're not completely compatible: an application deployed on one won't immediately deploy on the other. In this article, Deepak Vohra shows how to alter the deployment descriptors to make the migration.
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Welcome to a New World: JBoss World 2005   09 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
JBoss World, held in Atlanta on March 1-2, kicked off with announcements of new directions for the company and a roundtable of customers discussing the popular application server. This article offers a recap of the opening presentations.
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A Look at Commons Chain, Part 2   09 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
In part one of this two-part series, Bill Siggelkow showed Java programmers how certain design patterns help Commons Chain to define and execute sequential sets of steps. In part two, Bill shows how Struts uses Chain to add custom behavior to request processing. Bill is the author of O'Reilly's Jakarta Struts Cookbook.
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Streamline Your Portlet Development with MVCPortlet Framework   08 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
This article presents an overview of MVCPortlet, an MVC framework for developing JSR-168-compliant portlets.
Source: Java.net

A Starter's Guide to the Eclipse IDE, Part 1: Installation and Projects   02 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
Installing Eclipse and working with basic Java projects.
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Aspect-Oriented Annotations   02 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and attributes are two leading-edge programming concepts, each with typical applications. By combining them, using attributes to indicate where AOP code should execute, you can effectively declare new Java syntax. Bill Burke introduces this new technique.
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A Look at Commons Chain, Part 1   02 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
In part one of a two-part series, Bill Siggelkow covers the basics of Chain, a promising new framework from the Jakarta Commons subproject that lets you integrate Chain into the Struts build process. In part two, Bill will cover how Chain is being applied to Struts and other projects. Bill is the author of O'Reilly's Jakarta Struts Cookbook.
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JBoss At Work, Part 1: Installing and Configuring JBoss   01 Mar 2005 05:00 GMT
In this first article of a series, you'll learn how to download and install JBoss. Tom Marrs and Scott Davis, authors of the upcoming JBoss At Work: A Practical Guide, explore the directory structure and show you how to add and remove services and how to deploy an application to JBoss.
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