Telling Stories at JavaOne   24 May 2006 04:00 GMT
JavaOne 2006 left attendees with an incomplete answer to the big question: will Sun open source Java? The answer was better than a definite maybe, but not by much. Daniel Steinberg looks back at the conference, its mixed message, and its many successes outside of the general sessions.
Source: O'Reilly

Generate a PDF Report from a Database with BIRT   23 May 2006 21:13 GMT
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an Eclipse plug-in reporting system for Web applications. It supports data access from databases, XML documents, EJBs, Web services, JavaBeans, and POJOs. Learn the ins and outs by generating a sample PDF report from a sample database.
Source: JavaBoutique

All About the Singleton Design Pattern   23 May 2006 20:12 GMT
Using the Singleton pattern allows you to have a class distribute the only instance of itself. This restricts instantiation of a class to one, which can be useful when you require exactly one object to coordinate actions across an application.
Source: JavaBoutique

A Whole Lot of Open Goin' On   17 May 2006 05:16 GMT
Sun came a lot closer to a promise of open sourcing Java on the first day of JavaOne this year, but meanwhile plenty else is finding its way to the community. Find out about where Java is going in Mustang and Dolphin, what was hot at NetBeans Day, what you can get today in the Java EE 5 edition, and why Borland, among many others, is talking a lot about supporting the heterogeneous open source stack.
Source: DevX

Standardizing Java Persistence with the EJB3 Java Persistence API   17 May 2006 04:00 GMT
Dissatisfaction with entity beans as an "official" means of persisting Java objects to databases has prompted a number of "unofficial" approaches, such as the very popular Hibernate. Now EJB3 seems to have learned its lesson: its new Java Persistence API allows you to persist plain old Java objects (POJOs) with a minimum of fuss and just a few annotations. Debu Panda looks at how to put this new standard to work.
Source: O'Reilly

Wake Up to iBATIS, the Hibernate Alternative for Spring   16 May 2006 13:37 GMT
As great as Hibernate is, a lesser-known Java persistence solution called iBATIS actually may be a superior technology for your Spring development in certain situations. Find out which.
Source: DevX

Moving On: Migrating from EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.0   15 May 2006 21:10 GMT
Find out how much you can simplify your EJB code by working through these examples, which show the process for migrating EJBs to version 3.0.
Source: DevX

Make Java DB Your Client-side Portable Database   12 May 2006 23:35 GMT
By embedding Java DB in your Java application, you provide a portable database that launches and shuts down as the application does. If that's not enough, you can create XML schemas on the fly using XML files and insert rows into a table without using SQL too.
Source: DevX

What to Watch for at JavaOne 2006   11 May 2006 04:00 GMT
With Java EE ready and Mustang in its beta release, what can you expect to see at the JavaOne conference? Java.net editor Chris Adamson checks in with a collection of themes, ideas, and currents to watch for in Moscone.
Source: Java.net

Real-Time Java: An Introduction   10 May 2006 04:00 GMT
"Real-Time" Java doesn't mean "really fast," but it does mean "really predictable," and that's especially important in many fields where an unpredictable response time, usually caused by the Java Virtual Machine's garbage collector, can cost money or lives. Peter Mikhalenko looks at the Real-Time Specification for Java and Sun's first implementation of the spec.
Source: O'Reilly