Cayenne is a powerful Java Object Relational Mapping framework. It’s open source and completely free. One of the main Cayenne distinctions is that it comes with cross-platform modeling GUI tools. This places Cayenne in the league of its own, making it a very attractive choice over both closed source commerical products and traditional “edit your own XML” open source solutions. ...

Since it has been introduced in JDK 1.5, I have loved the Executor abstraction over multi threaded execution. James Sugrue

He called it "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs."  Now Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has put his money where his mouth is and hired tennis buddy and HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd as Co-President of Oracle, squeezing out Charles Phillips.  There's just one problem, HP claims that Hurd has breached a protective contract preventing Hurd from sharing...

CouchDB creator Damien Katz has renamed his startup, originally Couchio, and launched a corresponding mobile development platform.  Couchio, which is a company that provides developer tools and hosting for Apache CouchDB, has now changed its name to CouchOne.  In conjunction with this announcement, CouchOne released CouchOne Mobile - a development platform based on CouchDB and optimized for...

Welcome to episode four of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste from our software development efforts. Waste elimination can be traced all the way back to the the mid-1900's, the birth of lean manufacturing, and the Toyota Production System (TPS). This is how Taiichi Ohno, the father of the TPS, described...

These days we are used to AJAX-intensive, sophisticated web frameworks. These frameworks provide us desktop style development into the Single Page Interface (SPI) paradigm. As you know there are two main types of frameworks, client-centric and server-centric. Each approach has pros and cons. Subtitle:  Testing the performance of Java...

Recent forays into GWT have enlightened me to this wonderful beast, but how do you apply it to the real world?

JBoss recently released the next version of their business logic integration platform, which is now split into five sub projects.  The main focus for Drools 5.1 has been to provide better consumability for users with declarative services based on Spring, Apache Camel, and Apache CXF.  Project developers have also impvoed the BPMN 2 implementation and added an improved Rete algorithm for reduced...

VMware employee Salvatore Sanfilippo has been hard at work developing Redis 2.0 and 2.2 in parallel.  Today the Google Code page announced the first stable release of 2.0.  Version 2.2 is approaching the feature freeze stage.  GORM for Redis was also announced today.

I'm looking at build tools for a fairly large project (mostly Java with some Jython), and pretty dissatisfied with all of the standard options out there. Gradle looks like it might be able to do the things I want. I am wondering, is anybody out there is using it who could talk about their experiences with it? Another interesting project, though it looks quite young, is Raven.

Today, I was looking at the maven dependencies of one of my projects and found a jar called apache-log4j-ext Article Type:  How-to

About a month ago, there was a great call to action on the WorkAwesome blog: What is the best professional advice you ever received? And where did it come from?

First of all, you should never store passwords. Then why the heck am I writing this post? Okay, Let me rephrase the first sentence – You should never store passwords as plain text anywhere in your application. of course, for the obvious reasons. If you store passwords as plain text, in a database or in a log file, then even Rajinikanth couldn’t save your application getting **cked.. I...

My former colleague Greg Gigon has written an interesting blog post where he talks about the pain that we cause ourselves by multi-tasking, a point which Kevin Fox also makes on the Theory of Constraints blog. I think the overall point that he makes is very true: James Sugrue

I've been doing all sorts of software development over the past few years, from closed-source in-house software for companies to closed-source product development to open-source frameworks and tools development to close-source app development. Looking back on my experience with the various drawbacks and benefits of each of those development modes, I hereby recommend your next app be open...

The first beta of the Virgo Web Server (formerly the Spring dm Server) is getting very close now that the Eclipse Foundation released the fourth milestone recently.  M4 features various build and test improvements along with several bugfixes.  OSGi extensions have been changed in preparation for the Equinox 3.6 upgrade and new test cases and test coverage have been implemented.  Closure Linter...

In my previous article I’ve described some of the aspects of the Windows Phone 7 emulator. Android SDK also comes with an emulator, although with a bunch of more customizable options. Let’s take a look at what we have.When you extract the Android SDK somewhere on your local hard drive, you can open the tools folder and see emulator.exe (I am using a Windows machine for development, so the...

Last week I managed to schedule sessions I would like to attend. The topics are interesting and technical - really looking forward to it. Product pitches are non existent - at least I didn't found any. From the topic / session perspective - I am really looking forward to this conference. From the content perspective it should be at least as good as the previous...

LinkedIn has tracked approximately 118 former Google employees who have left after Facebook made offers that they couldn't refuse.  These offers likely included low priced private stock, according to TechCrunch.  That stock could end up hitting $100 billion in total value over then next few years, and just a small percentage of that would still mean that stockholders are set fo

I have been doing JSF since 2004. I blogged for a long time on here about some of the shortcomings of JSF 1.x, but overall, have always sustained that a flawed framework is better than a tinkertoy one that is not really a framework at all (Struts). Seems like I have been waiting for JSF2 for ever. Finally, getting to put my hands on it, it feels pretty nice so far, though there are some...