http://www.javaworld JW RSS feed for Featured Articles Javaworld Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Javaworld http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2009/jw-01-spring-transactions.html Before you settle on a transaction-processing pattern for your Spring application, make sure you understand the variety of options and how each one will impact the performance, safety, reliability, and data integrity of distributed applications. SpringSource engineer David Syer walks through seven patterns for distributed transaction processing in Spring. 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2009/jw-01-tech-careers-09.html Tech jobs are in trouble, with new layoffs announced almost every week, and many IT workers are scrambling for a new career plan. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman distills career advice from across the IDG news network. 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-osjp-netbeans-modules.html NetBeans plugins let you do all kinds of things you can't do with NetBeans alone, and they're open source. Jeff Friesen introduces five useful plugins, then gets you started with creating your own plugins for NetBeans 6.5. 2008-12-31T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-year-in-review-3.html As Agile techniques become more mainstream, tools for the software development lifecycle are adding new features and optimizations to make developers happy. Find out what's new in build automation frameworks, testing tools, and IDEs, with this year-end review from Java Power Tools author John Ferguson Smart. 2008-12-27T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-rest-series-2.html 'Tis the season of weariness for many around the world, so sit back and enjoy a long, tall sip of Restlet: A toolkit for building and consuming RESTful Web services in Java. This article also introduces JSR 311: JAX-RS. 2008-12-23T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-hudson-ci.html Looking for a continuous integration server solution? Hudson is free and open source, and configuration is a snap. This article gets you started with Hudson in a Windows or Linux environment using JBoss AS or Tomcat 6. 2008-12-18T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-year-in-review-2.html Java SE 7 has started coming into focus in the past year, even up to recent announcements about Sun's intention to modularize the JDK. Java 7 maven Alex Miller looks back on the developments of 2008 to tell us what features to expect, and not, in the final platform specification. 2008-12-16T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-year-in-review-1.html Andrew Glover looks back over the last 12 months in Java development, with an eye on the JVM Language Summit, new trends in the Java enterprise space, and Sun's emerging client-side strategy. 2008-12-10T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2008/jw-12-jump-into-jfx-2.html JavaFX Script is the client-side scripting language with an expressive take on standard Java programming constructs, from class declaration to data binding. Fire up your NetBeans IDE and get to know this strangely familiar (but very different) Java language offspring. 2008-12-04T00:00:00Z http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2008/jw-11-portletpacket3.html You've tried all the workarounds for getting portlets to talk to each other using Portlet 1.0; now try it the easier way with the improved event model of Portlet 2.0. Part of the JavaWorld Portlet Packet. 2008-11-26T00:00:00Z