Poranna Java

Back from JUG Paris. It was almost a conference (~200 attendees). It was my first time in Paris -> I really like the city. Although I was said to got some competition by the football world championships, the room w ...

The appearance of UI-Controls in Java FX can be either configured programmatically, or with CSS. See this comprehensive CSS reference. Hopefully it will be distributed with the official SDK doc in the next release.. ...

EJB 3.1 + REST are perfect combo for HTTP and resource style programming. REST is not very well suited for the exposure of already existing interfaces. The RPC-misuse of REST will result in hard to understand and so ...

The free Java EE 6 events in the week of 05.07-09.07.2010 will start at July the 6th in Paris. I will give a (hopefully openspace-like / interactive) presentation with the title Lightweight Killer Apps with Nothing ...

I'm back from the JAX 2010 - one of the biggest european Java conferences. There was lot more interests in Java EE 6, than expected: The "Simpler? - Is Impossible - Java EE 6" Workshop was fully booked - with 75 re ...

...One of my personality quirks that makes my "what's next" question more difficult is that most of the things that interest me are science projects rather than sensible business plans. I'll be having fun.... Re ...

I tried to make a sit reservation for an ICE (a nice train - perfectly suitable for hacking or writing). Because I travel a bit, I'm a bahn.comfort customer - its something like frequent flyer. To make the reservat ...

Java EE 5/6 Patterns in Hamburg (26.04-30.04.2010) - some (3-5) places left 60 minutes with Java EE 6, 04.05 at JAX conference - this should be fun. I will hack a Java EE 6 application in 60 minutes on stage. Still ...

Oracle's official GlassFish roadmap (also clustering, HA and Java EE 7, GlassFish v4) summarized on 14 slides. The excellent Java EE 5/6 portability (vendor-neutrality) story and this slide deck should give GlassFis ...

It's sad, but James Gosling leaves Oracle. I'm really curious about his next job... An excerpt from his bio: "...He briefly worked for Oracle after the acquisition of Sun. He is now blissfully unemployed :-)..." ...