Review: Wicket 1.1   17 Sep 2005 00:05 GMT
Why do we need another Web framework for Java? This new open source framework boasts that it's a unique combination component model and easy-to-use HTML interface, with a list of killer features. Drew Falkman investigates.
Source: JavaBoutique

Receive Application Errors via Yahoo Messenger   16 Sep 2005 04:00 GMT
Logging errors is fine, but do you want to sift through errors logs after the customer has experienced a problem and called to complain? The extensibility of log4j gives you options for in handling problems and in this article Romin Irani shows you how to use that to send instant messages when your program logs an error.
Source: Java.net

Concentrate on the Java Exceptions that Matter to Your Application   15 Sep 2005 02:56 GMT
Using custom exceptions that separate application from system exceptions enables you to concentrate on handling only the exceptions that are meaningful to your application.
Source: DevX

XML Validation and XPath Evaluation in J2SE 5.0   14 Sep 2005 11:43 GMT
J2SE 5.0 provides support for validating an XML document against a schema, as well as evaluation of XPath for selecting document nodes. This article shows how to make the most of javax.xml.validation and javax.xml.xpath libraries, and it provides simple tutorials on both XML schema and XPath.
Source: Sun

Developing an SSL-Enabled Web Application With Sun Java System Application Server 8.1   14 Sep 2005 11:43 GMT
A popular security technology, SSL offers mutual authentication and message encryption in client-server communications. This article provides the steps to enable SSL in your web application and to implement SSL-enabled J2EE 1.4 security in Sun Java System Application Server 8.1 software.
Source: Sun

What Is a Portlet   14 Sep 2005 04:00 GMT
The Portlet API establishes a standard for building a web page out of smaller constituent parts, all managed by a portlet container to create a portal page. In this introduction, Sunil Patil shows how to create a basic "Hello World" portlet and deploy it in the Apache Pluto portal server.
Source: O'Reilly

Container-free Testing with Mockrunner   13 Sep 2005 04:00 GMT
Testing container-dependent code is made much more difficult when the container isn't available on the developer's machine, and this is a case where a mock objects approach can help. Bob McCune introduces Mockrunner, a JUnit-related framework for testing code with mock objects.
Source: Java.net

EclipseME—Another IDE Option for J2ME Development   13 Sep 2005 03:00 GMT
This summer, the 1.0 release of a new plug-in, namely EclipseME, affords J2ME developers another free IDE option built on top of this very popular and powerful platform.
Source: DevX

Spring Your Struts Apps Ahead: The Struts-to-Spring Migration   09 Sep 2005 02:31 GMT
Find out what it takes to migrate Struts applications to Spring MVC. You'll learn not only how to transform Struts applications into Spring MVC applications, but also the logical mapping between the two frameworks and how key Struts concepts relate to Spring MVC concepts.
Source: DevX

Get Familiar with J2SE 5.0 Collections   09 Sep 2005 00:20 GMT
Although you may be completely at ease with Java collections in previous versions, J2SE 5.0 collections are both simpler and different, requiring less code—but altered programming techniques.
Source: DevX