Web development with Wicket, Part 1: The state of Wicket
Don't let state become a performance bottleneck in your Java Web applications. Wicket accommodates both stateless and stateful
development models, so you can just go with the flow.
Nathan Hamblen,
June 2008
Spring into Seam, Part 3: Persistence for two
Who says Web application frameworks can't learn to share? Find out how Spring and Seam can collaborate on persistence tasks
in complex,
database-oriented applications. (Excerpted from Seam in Action, forthcoming from Manning Publications.)
Dan Allen,
May 2008
SpringSource launches app server
Next-generation application server platform based on Spring, OSGi, and Tomcat snubs Java EE.
Chris Kanaracus,
April 2008
Spring into Seam, Part 2: When stateless and stateful collide
You say adding stateful behavior to Spring beans is too much work? Maybe all you need is a little extra muscle from JBoss
Seam. (Excerpted from Seam in Action, forthcoming from Manning Publications.)
Dan Allen,
April 2008
Spring into Seam, Part 1: Build a Spring-Seam hybrid component
Who says adopting Seam means giving up Spring? In this first installment in a three-part series, Dan Allen shows you how to
build hybrid components that benefit from both Seam and Spring container functionality. Excerpted from Seam in Action, forthcoming
from Manning Publications.
Dan Allen,
April 2008
Acegi security for JSF applications
Use the Spring application context to configure Acegi's authentication and authorization services for your JSF applications.
Seema Richard,
April 2008
Custom components with Spring 2.5
A quick, hands-on introduction to custom component creation, declaration, and deployment in Spring 2.5.
Jeff Hanson,
February 2008
Grails 1.0 released
Nearly 3 years in the making, 1.0 release is a milestone.
Paul Krill,
February 2008
SpringSource acquires Covalent
Merger deepens support for Spring-plus-Tomcat as a lightweight alternative to Java EE.
Paul Krill,
January 2008
Spring Web Flow for better workflow management in JSF
Get in the zone with this flexible alternative to the JavaServer Faces CustomNavigationHandler.
Ravi Shankar Nair,
January 2008
Spring Integration boosts service-based apps
SpringSource announces a new framework aimed at easing enterprise integration.
Paul Krill,
December 2007
Client-side WSDL processing with Groovy and Gant
The Groovy and Gant Toolset lets you automatically generate Java Web service clients with Axis2, XFire, CXF, and Java 6 --
including WSDL compatibility checks.
Klaus P. Berg,
November 2007
Installation guide for the Groovy and Gant Toolset
Klaus P. Berg,
November 2007
GWT solution #6: Drag and drop
Get a hands-on, Google Web Toolkit solution to one of the pervasive problems of Java Web development: Adding drag-and-drop
functionality to Web pages.
David Geary and Rob Gordon ,
November 2007
Leopard's off and running, but where's Mustang?
Some say Apple's Leopard and Sun's Mustang were meant to run neck and neck -- but so far Java SE 6 is out of the race.
Lisa Hoover,
October 2007
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Web services test code generator
Klaus Berg has recently released a test-code generator for JUnit-based Web service clients. If you're developing Web services
using Axis2 and XMLBeans this wizard could turn your JUnit test client coding into a powerful code generation process. It
also has uses for those using GUI-based testing tools like soapUI.
