Introduction to Nutch, Part 2: Searching   16 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
In the second part of this look at the Nutch web indexing and search engine, Tom White looks at how to perform searches on the index generated in part one's crawl, and shows how to integrate Nutch's search capabilities with your applications through direct Java calls to its API or via the OpenSearch API.
Source: Java.net

Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other's Toys   15 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
Convincing your colleagues and clients to consider a RESTful approach to SOA is difficult when the accepted standard is SOAP-style services. In this article, Jason R. Briggs introduces a SOAP interface that can be used to deliver SOAP messages from REST resources.
Source: O'Reilly

Integrating Ant with Eclipse, Part 1   15 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
Ant and Eclipse are the top Java build system and IDE, both by wide margins, so it's only natural you'd want to integrate them. In this excerpt from Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, Steve Holzner shows how to create and run Ant build.xml files from within Eclipse.
Source: O'Reilly

Supersizing Java: Large Pages on the Opteron Processor, Part 1   14 Feb 2006 18:50 GMT
Learn about how the AMD Opteron processor can handle large memory pages in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and why large pages can improve performance.
Source: DevX

Separation of Concerns and BPEL   14 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
Should a business process just be one more software feature? Not according to proponents of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Stephen B. Morris says that separating your business process code, via BPEL, from the rest of your business logic gives you robustness, pluggability, and customizability that's otherwise difficult to obtain.
Source: Java.net

Move a Non-modal JDialog Together with its Parent JFrame   14 Feb 2006 02:28 GMT
The code included in this tip allows you to move a non-modal JDialog together with its parent JFrame and vice versa in a Swing application.
Source: DevX

Development Standards in Apache Struts   11 Feb 2006 03:09 GMT
When you've got a team of developers working on an application, standardization is crucial. This article offers several pieces of advice to help improve development speed and the quality of your applications.
Source: JavaBoutique

A Test-Driven Exploration of the Advanced Features of EJB 3.0   09 Feb 2006 22:49 GMT
Learn, in a test-driven approach, how to use the more advanced features of the EJB 3.0 specification.
Source: DevX

Better File Uploads with AJAX and JavaServer Faces   09 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
Browser-based file uploads present user experience problems, as the usual technologies offer little opportunity to show the user how the upload is progressing. Jacobus Steenkamp shows how to alleviate this with a combination of JSF and AJAX.
Source: Java.net

Using Spring with JDO and Hibernate   08 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
Everyone knows about Hibernate, but what about Java Data Objects? Both of these object-relational persistence frameworks are well supported by Spring, and in this excerpt from Spring: A Developer's Notebook, Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland show you the advantages of each and how to integrate them with Spring.
Source: O'Reilly