Joshua Bloch of Google is coming up with his second installment of the famous Effective Java book. Effective Java (2nd Ed) InfoQ has an interesting article about the upcoming book and provides a sample chapter on Generics free for download. Other books from Bloch include: Java Puzzlers Effective Java (1st Ed) Java Concurrency in Practice [...]
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Sun Tech Days in Manila
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Java, Philippines
Sun Tech Days will be in Manila from June 17-19. Now in its 10th year, Tech Days is a Worldwide Developer Conference that spans 15 cities across the world reaching more than 100,000 developers. This is your chance to develop skills and advance your career in a Web 2.0 world; share knowledge and grow your [...]
Email/IM Notification with Log4J
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
For years, Log4J has been the de facto logging framework for Java. I’m not sure if most developers are already aware of this but there are a lot of other neat things you can do with Log4J aside from writing debug lines to plain text files. Among them are sending notifications through email, IM or [...]
Collective Intelligence in Action
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
Finally, I won a book from JavaRanch! Praise God! The book is entitled: Collective Intelligence in Action Unlike other books in Collective Intelligence, the methods and examples presented in CIA are based in Java. I’ve already joined many other book promos in the Ranch (Head First PMP, Rock Star Programmers, JQuery In Action), but this [...]
Get TWO Chances at Getting Sun Certified For the Price of One
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
This post is out of date. Please visit http://javacertification.info/ for details regarding other Java/Sun Certification promotions. Taken directly from Sun’s email: 500,000 Have Done it and You Can Too! Dear READER: More than 500,000 IT Professionals are now Sun Certified. Are You Next? With the purchase of any certification exam voucher through June 30, 2008, [...]
MyFaces 1.2 Error: No Factories configured for this Application
April 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Java
If you’ve received the “No Factories configured for this Application” error with MyFaces 1.2, then you’re not alone. Detailed message goes like this: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Factories configured for this Application. This happens if the faces-initialization does not work at all – make sure that you properly include all configuration settings necessary for a basic faces [...]
Has .NET Leapfrogged Java?
April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Dotnet, Java
Got this message from my Inbox this morning: Our authors often have great insights. So when one recently told us that .NET technology–in particular C# combined with LINQ–has “leapfrogged Java,” we took note. His evidence? The new .NET library, LINQ*, provides a direct link between C# code and any data source, without the need for [...]
JSF vs Flex Components
April 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Flex, Java
When developing JSF applications, I rely heavily on these two sites as reference for the Tag syntax. http://www.exadel.com/tutorial/jsf/jsftags-guide.html http://www.horstmann.com/corejsf/jsf-tags.html With Flex, there’s a similar tool where you can see Flex 3 components in action. http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html Try visiting and comparing the mentioned sites and you’ll probably have an idea why I’m really excited about developing applications [...]
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Flex, BlazeDS and JPA
April 18th, 2008 · 17 Comments · Flex, Java
After several days of playing with Flex, I’ve managed to create a simple Java-based backend using BlazeDS and the Java Persistence API (JPA). In this post, we will try to implement what used to be a very popular application (during the early days of the Internet), the “Guest Book“. What you’ll need: Flex Builder 3 [...]
Pro EJB 3 – Java Persistence API for $10
April 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Books, Java
Same rules as before, you can get this e-book from Apress’ daily deal site for $10 within the 24-hour period. Pro EJB 3 This is one of the few books recommended for SCBCD 5.0 exam.