Getting Started with GlassFish v3

This DZone Refcard is the go to resource for anyone new to GlassFish Application Server.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Code Refactoring - Freaking Awesome

We have all gone back and looked at code we wrote in the past and thought "Wow, this is ugly.", or "wtf was I thinking?", or even...

12 replies - 12028 views - 01/16/09 by Mike Bernat in News

Open Source : How Do You Stay Up To Date?

I Love the concepts and beliefs behind Open Source. I use Open Source libraries, applications etc. all the time. One of the things I have always found a...

18 replies - 11163 views - 01/10/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9360 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Secret Grails Feature in NetBeans 6.5

If you have multiple domain objects and controllers in your Grails application, like here: ...it is easy to switch between a domain object and its...

0 replies - 2576 views - 12/31/08 by harris goldstone in Tips and Tricks

Easy Grails with IntelliJ IDEA - 2. Chaining Queries

As promised in the previous post, let’s continue with Grails support in  IntelliJ IDEA 8. Today we’ll see how the powerful IntelliJ IDEA‘s code...

1 replies - 2329 views - 12/26/08 by Irina Megorskaya in News

The Top 5 Books I Read in 2008

I read several books in 2008, 90% of them were technical. I also read a number of books related to software development rather than a specific framework or...

11 replies - 14822 views - 12/22/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Targeted Languages

The vast majority of actively evolving business software is written in Java these days. Java has long enjoyed the title of One Language to Rule Them All....

6 replies - 3805 views - 12/17/08 by Jay Fields in Articles

Create a Groovy 1.5.7 Script in NetBeans IDE 6.5

In this article we will write a little Groovy script using NetBeans 6.5. NetBeans has Groovy (and Grails) support. We will see how we can use the latest Groovy...

4 replies - 3553 views - 12/17/08 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in News

Static Methods are Death to Testability

Recently many of you, after reading Guide to Testability, wrote to telling me there is nothing wrong with static methods. After all what can be easier to test...

28 replies - 8768 views - 12/15/08 by mhevery in Articles

Easy Grails with IntelliJ IDEA

This post opens a series of articles related to Groovy and Grails development with IntelliJ IDEA 8. Today we’ll discuss some general enhancements that...

3 replies - 7130 views - 12/05/08 by Irina Megorskaya in News

Getting Groovy With "with"

Strange enough title.Let's start with a hypothetical conversation between a geeky developer and his much less geeky wife:

6 replies - 5513 views - 11/14/08 by Jeff Brown in News

How to "Create" an Editor for Java Applications

Rather than creating your own editor whenever you're working on a Java application that needs one, why not use the JSyntaxPane? By means of one single JAR...

9 replies - 7833 views - 11/13/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Groovy, Grails & SpringSource - Initial Thoughts

SpringSource today announced that it has purchased G2One, the folks who have been driving the development of Groovy and Grails. The following are my _initial_...

11 replies - 4762 views - 11/12/08 by Pratik Patel in News

A Different Road To Springness: SpringSource Acquires G2One

Today, SpringSource announce yet another important milestone in it's rise as one of the biggest players in the Enterprise Java arena with the acquisition of...

5 replies - 4259 views - 11/11/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Language Specialization

Didn't you just totally sell out? -- Obie Fernandez @ Rails Summit Latin AmericaObie and I are good friends. He wasn't trying to insult me. I was talking about...

5 replies - 6245 views - 10/30/08 by Jay Fields in News