Building Converged Applications 01 Nov 2007 03:18 GMTLearn how Web services and enterprise developers can move outside the box for communications-enabled business processes—and how you can use one environment to build, test, and deploy business logic and communications logic with an even flow of project elements.
Source: DevX Building Maps into Your Swing Application with the JXMapViewer 30 Oct 2007 04:00 GMTMapping is a common feature of many applications, and a new component from SwingLabs makes it easy to add maps to your Java GUI application. Joshua Marinacci shows you how to adding maps to your Swing app can be as simple as dropping a JXMapViewer component into a NetBeans layout.
Source: Java.net The Java EE Application as an EJB/Spring/Hibernate Hybrid 26 Oct 2007 04:47 GMTJava EE 5 provides all the features you need to build a robust enterprise application right in an EJB 3.0 container, but incorporating the relative strengths of Spring and Hibernate can further improve the productivity and quality of your application.
Source: DevX JavaFX Progress: It's Academic 24 Oct 2007 01:01 GMTSun Microsystems engineers and executives provide a progress report of the JavaFX technology family, the next version of Java SE, and other projects.
Source: DevX Create Moving Experiences with Animated Transitions 23 Oct 2007 04:00 GMTA GUI that radically changes its layout as it goes from one mode to the other can be jarring to users. A new trend is for changes in content or context to be animated, so the user can see the nature of the changes. In an example inspired by the the
Filthy Rich Clients book he co-authored, Chet Haase introduces an
Animated Transitions library that can help you achieve these effects in your Swing application.
Source: Java.net Java Web Development the Wicket Way 13 Oct 2007 03:10 GMTWicket, a lightweight, component-oriented web application framework in plain Java and XHTML, stresses separation of concerns, testability, and good object-oriented design practices. Check out Wicket's approach to common implementation scenarios.
Source: DevX Visualizing Data: Self-Documenting Ant files 11 Oct 2007 02:40 GMTInteractive graphical views of your Ant build files give you more information faster, reduce errors, and provide intuitive methods to help you comprehend, modify, and test build targets.
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