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Maven Project Info Reports Considered Dangerous

This is the first in a series of posts that talks about Maven 2.0 successes and short-comings. Today a short-coming: Maven's default project reports are "easy" but they are also "boring", and if you dare to look at the code, I think you'll agree that they are "nasty".

The future is in the palm of our hand

It looks like the future is in the palm of our hands. Handhelds are going to take a bigger part of our life. Programmers and architects should get to know handhelds and handhelds technologies like J2ME.

Are you a Java Ninja?

Java Black Belt is a good way to test your Java knowledge, and it can be a good self-diagnostic tool for programmers looking to keep current on Spring, web services, etc.

Integrating a Rich-text Widget with Struts

All I wanted was a simple rich-text editor that I could easily drop into an existing form in Struts. I ended up doing battle with too many competing frameworks and multiple hours of Javascript debugging. I finally settled on FCKeditor

Good Article on ROME: RSS/ATOM library for Java

ROME is an easy way to create/consume RSS or ATOM feeds in Java

Invaluable JSP 2.0 / JSTL Cheatsheet

JSP 2.0 and JSTL development is much easier with this cheatsheet from Andrew Peterson of NDP Software

Genender's Overview of Apache Geronimo

Jeff Genender gives a good overview of Apache Geronimo

Commons SCXML - State Machine Representation and Execution in Java

Time for Java developers to put up or shut up

Tonight at midnight pacific time the OSCON Call for Participation closes. Is there an open source Java project you are passionate about? Write it up in a proposal and click the submit button.

What should be in the next version of NoUnit (a Junit Extension)?

NoUnit is an open-source code coverage tool that shows you the effectiveness of your JUnit tests. After a suitable pause , we're thinking of starting work on the next version. What do you think should be included?

A Scrolly, Clippy Swing Optimization

I'm toying with how to do a wave-form viewer in Swing, one that would potentially require scrolling over a custom component that is, at least in theory, millions of pixels wide. Here's an interesting, simple optimization that makes a huge difference.

A version by any other name

Is product versioning an R&D; decision or a marketing one?

Don't Give us your Tired Your Poor

Give us your vibrant, exciting, cool, open source Java submissions for this year's OSCON.

Watch out Java - Windows Workflow is coming!

Workflow is core to most business as it describes the essence of what they do. Many systems already have workflow in them, only they don't know it. The problem is then that the Business People (who understand the workflow) can't see how it is implemented in (hidden behind code), while the technical people don't understand the business process.