Tune Into SDN Channel: Mix and Match Ajax Widgets with jMaki   09 Feb 2007 11:17 GMT
Greg Murray, Sun's Ajax Architect, has information to share on client-side scripting with JavaScript and how you can easily design and create Ajax-enabled widgets using jMaki.
Source: Sun

An Introduction to Hibernate 3 Annotations   08 Feb 2007 05:00 GMT
Hibernate is just about the defacto standard for Java database persistence. With Hibernate 3, it has become even easier to specify how your Java objects are stored in a database. In this article, John Smart shows how Java 5 annotations are used by Hibernate to simplify your code and make persisting your data even easier.
Source: O'Reilly

Ajax Form Validation Using Spring and DWR   08 Feb 2007 05:00 GMT
Validating user input in web apps doesn't lend itself to easy solutions: you don't want client-side validation to require you to duplicate your effort, but server-side validations may run long after the invalid input is entered. Eric Spiegelberg has an approach that uses Ajax, via Direct Web Remoting, to let your server-side validation code correct client-side entries on the fly.
Source: Java.net

J2EE and SQL Server: Making a JDBC Connection   07 Feb 2007 04:29 GMT
Using a SQL Server back end with a Java application server may sound like an unnatural proposition but there's no need to bow to such arbitrary limitations. In this article you'll get step-by-step instructions on making a JDBC connection between the four most popular Java application servers and Microsoft SQL Server.
Source: DevX

Streamline Session Lifecycles with Java's Servlet Listeners   07 Feb 2007 02:11 GMT
Learn how to use all eight of the servlet API's event listeners to clean up and monitor your code.
Source: JavaBoutique

Adapting JAAS to SOA Environments: SOA Security Service   06 Feb 2007 05:00 GMT
JAAS' limitations and assumptions have made it difficult to integrate with other enterprise technologies. However, by exposing it as a service, you can rely on JAAS in your SOA. Denis Pilipchuk shows how it's done.
Source: Java.net

Master the New Persistence Paradigm with JPA   01 Feb 2007 21:32 GMT
In this article you will learn how to persist objects using the Java Persistence API (JPA), customize their mapping with annotations, and create a one-to-one relationship. Using the entity lifecycle you will control persistency and use the query language (JPQL) to query your objects.
Source: DevX