The last couple of weeks have been very interesting, as I was in the last stages of a project at work. I no longer hate WSAD (Websphere Studio Application Developer) so much. I still find a lot of missing features from the latest Eclipse releases (WSAD is based on Eclipse 2.x), but I found the […]
UPDATE: I changed the BlogApplication code based on feedback from Igor (one of the Wicket developers). It should now work against the latest trunk from the Subversion repository. Well, my last entry had some very good feedback from you. It seems people really are interested in learning Wicket, and someone even told me that his […]
In this article, I introduce the Wicket web framework by using the same comparison requirements as the ones posted by Simon Brown on his Java.net blog.
In case you haven’t found out by now, Sun is having a contest where you can Play with J2EE 1.4 SDK and Win a Sony PSP. I think this is a very cool way to promote J2EE 1.4, too bad I don’t qualify because I’m not in one of the countries where the contest is […]
For those of you that like to keep a record of your personal finances, but don’t want to pay for an application like Quicken or Microsoft Money, there are a couple of solutions available in the OSS realm, most notably gnucash. But, if you want something that can run in various operating systems (win, mac, […]
By now everyone must have read what Bruce Eckel had to say about Java (or rather, about Java enthusiasts) on Artima, especially after the article was picked up by Slashdot yesterday. I must confess I read the article several times, and I still don’t see how Bruce’s comments lead to the conclusion that Java enthusiasts […]
At work, we use an IM server from Microsoft that uses the Windows Messenger app as a client, and only works for internal communications. Since last week and for reasons unknown, the server is not responding (the person in charge didn’t reply to my emails). As a group of developers separated by geography, IM tools […]
At work, I’ve been working on a project that uses Websphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1. Part of the development setup is to use Websphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) 5.1, because it is tightly integrated with WAS. One of the problems this represents is that WSAD 5.1 is based on Eclipse 2.1.3. After working with Eclipse […]
I was trying last night to update my CVS copy of the Spring Rich Client project, which is in its early alpha stages (more about this project on a later post). Since 10pm CST I kept retrying every now and then, to no avail. Apparently SourceForge‘s CVS servers were down yesterday. I tried again this […]
I was looking into some information on how to do unit testing using mock objects. Since I’m using Spring, I’m also considering this into the equation. So far, I have found some nice articles, like this one linked from TheServerSide, which talks about unit testing and mock objects in general, and provide some examples. I […]
