Exploring ESB Patterns with Mule   31 Jul 2007 04:00 GMT
Will Enterprise Service Bus be the next big thing in enterprise integration? ESB is a highly ambitious standard, providing high levels of flexibility and extensive features. In this article, Igor Dayen shows how to implement a common enterprise integration pattern, the routing slip, by using Mule, a popular open source messaging framework.
Source: Java.net

Java Mobility Podcast 13: Mauricio Leal on Mobility and the Mobile and Embedded Community   27 Jul 2007 04:00 GMT
Mauricio Leal, Mobility Application Developer and Advocate, discusses the challenges and issues for Developers and Carriers, shares his insight on ever emerging role of mobile devices, and its impact to help bridge the digital divide in developing countries.
Source: Java.net

SOA Reusability: Shrinking the Lag between Business and IT   24 Jul 2007 04:00 GMT
SOA is really the latest effort in a decades-long quest to achieve software reusability. In this article, Mehul J. argues that the key is not in the IT department, but rather in enabling business analysts to directly reconfigure systems built on SOA.
Source: Java.net

j1-2k7-mtW06: Kepler's Orrery - Generative Music of the Planets   20 Jul 2007 01:28 GMT
Kepler's Orrery is an applet that creates generative music based on a gravity simulator. Rocks, bodies, and mutators create a unique blend of sound for each arrangement of bodies it starts with. In this mini-talk, creator Simran Gleason shows how it works
Source: Java.net

Adding Auto-Completion Support to Swing Comboboxes   19 Jul 2007 04:00 GMT
Auto-completion, as seen in browser address bars (among other GUIs), can be a very useful and much appreciated trait for input fields in your GUI. However, all of the second-generation Java GUI toolkits provide the feature differently. Kirill Grouchnikov shows how to add auto-completion to comboboxes in GlazedLists, SwingX, JIDE, and Laf-Widget.
Source: Java.net

MockLib: Simulate APIs for Testing   18 Jul 2007 21:27 GMT
Using MockLib, a tool that simulates entire APIs, you can unit test contracts or well-defined APIs and refactor whole components with very few changes to your tests.
Source: DevX

j1-2k7-mtH01: Open Source Business Opportunities   18 Jul 2007 04:00 GMT
In this mini-talk from the java.net Community Corner at JavaOne, Edgar Silva takes a very Brazilian perspective in a free-form discussion of business models and opportunities he's seen with the adoption of open-source software development.
Source: Java.net

Look Up a Bean Interface in EJB 3.0   17 Jul 2007 23:25 GMT
In principle, in EJB 3.0, you can access a bean from another bean by looking it up in the interface (local or remote). Find out how.
Source: DevX

Java Mobility Podcast 12: Loopt the Social Networking Application   16 Jul 2007 04:00 GMT
Mark Jacobstein, EVP Corporate Development and Marketing, describes Loopt social networking application for mobile devices and the development issues of permissions, safety, and working with operators and other third party developers. He also discusses the various changes in social behavior that software like this are likely to bring.
Source: Java.net

kXML-RPC Enables Service-Oriented Mobile Computing   13 Jul 2007 18:35 GMT
Service orientation is going wireless; it's simply a matter of how much and how soon. XML-RPC and the kXML-RPC library certainly are in the mix for this inevitable convergence.
Source: DevX