Book Excerpt: Maven: A Developer's Notebook   15 Jul 2005 21:57 GMT
Tired of writing the same build logic for every project? Find out how using Maven helps you leverage the experience of the community to avoid creating yet another build script for each new project.
Source: JavaBoutique

Charles's Corner   15 Jul 2005 11:38 GMT
To stay current with Java technology, Charles Ditzel, a partner area technologist at Sun, started keeping some notes on interesting web sites he visited. Here's his most recent list.
Source: Sun

Bring Java's System.currentTimeMillis() Back into the Fold for Transaction Monitoring   14 Jul 2005 23:41 GMT
Many developers need to capture transaction times for high-volume transactional systems, but have avoided using Java's System.currentTimeMillis() due to rumors of poor performance. Find out why currentTimeMillis() has gotten a bad rap.
Source: DevX

Getting Started With JavaSpaces Technology   14 Jul 2005 11:54 GMT
JavaSpaces technology is a powerful high-level tool that provides an expressive yet easy-to-learn API for building distributed and collaborative applications.
Source: Sun

Perl on Java? An Introduction to the Sleep Language   14 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Perl is renowned for its "whipitupitude," meaning its ability to get a lot done with a small amount of code, particularly when it comes to regular expressions and working with I/O. Now the language Sleep tries to take the best of Perl and combine it with the ability to use Java objects from scripts. Raphael Mudge shows how it works.
Source: Java.net

Build an Embedded Array Language in Java   14 Jul 2005 00:26 GMT
This article describes a generalized system for dealing with multidimensional arrays of data. It lets you transform and extract slices of data along various axes with very little code, in the style of the programming language APL. And you're not limited to numerical data; you can generalize systems such as this to any kind of tabular data.
Source: DevX

Taking JUnit Out of the Box   13 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
JUnit is practically ubiquitous among Java developers as a way to test code, but it's somewhat limited by the fact that it's only meant to run in one JVM on one box, hampering its usefulness when developing distributed applications. In this article, Amir Shevat shows how the open source JUnit extension Pisces helps JUnit overcome this limitation.
Source: O'Reilly

Upload Files with JSF and MyFaces   13 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Want to support uploading of files from the user's browser to your web application? You could parse the multipart form data yourself--or you could let Java do it for you. JSF doesn't support this out of the box, but, as Andrei Cioroianu shows, several JSF-based frameworks do.
Source: O'Reilly

Interaction Happens: Thinking Graphically   12 Jul 2005 04:00 GMT
Some applications make perfect sense to the developer, but not to the end user. Are you thinking of your GUIs in terms of what the developer needs, what the application needs, or what the user needs? In this installment of "Interaction Happens," Jonathan Simon shows how to "think holistically" about your GUI.
Source: Java.net

Use the Robot Class for Automatic Keyboard and Mouse Control   12 Jul 2005 02:26 GMT
The code uses the Robot class to give you automatic keyboard and mouse control.
Source: DevX