The Hollywood Principle
Pete Muir and Mark Struberg offer us an introduction to CDI: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE, delving into the history of the two year project and its…
Good news everyone
Oracle's charge hits the buffers, as the jury return with a favourable Google verdict on patents. But it seems that Oracle were nowhere near getting what they wanted
Cloud to drive OSS?
'The 2012 Future of Open Source' survey reveals some interesting findings about where open source is at and where it's going.
Testable development of CDI
It’s our opinion that Testing is Development; we’re not doing our job as programmers if we cannot ensure that our code is working as advertised. To that end, CDI has been…
Getting Started with Apache Struts
The man who managed the Apache Struts 2.0 release, Ted Husted gives us a quick-start guide into the enterprise-ready Java web framework
Working with REAL Java Objects
Apache Wicket guru Jeremy Thomerson takes us on a tour of component-oriented Java UI web framework and when best to use it.
How Data Analysis changes Software Development
The data revolution has started. Or has it?
A Gradle Case Study
Groovy expert Ken Kousen discusses how to construct a trivial SOAP client using the built-in Java tools, driven by a Gradle build. The process illustrates several useful…
Have you been nominated?!
Over the last month we have had many interesting and diverse nominations sent our way, but the time has now come to whittle them down into the shortlist!
ASF booming
The Apache Software Foundation have had a busy 2012 so far. All indications show the first few months were their best yet,
Let the PaaS wars begin
As Red Hat mount their PaaS embrace, we ask whether it's too much too soon and look forward to how PaaS can gain greater adoption
Hadoop MapReduce Tutorial
A step-by-step guide on how to use Hadoop MapReduce to analyse the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, by Sujee Maniyam
Has OpenOffice arrived too late
The original open source office suite gets a new lick of paint with its first release under Apache, but has OpenOffice missed the boat with LibreOffice assuming top dog status…
Big Data is only getting bigger
New research from IDC suggest that the already thriving Hadoop/MapReduce ecosystem is set to grow bigger, estimated to be worth a cool $812.8m come 2016
DIY Gradle Plugin Development
Tim Berglund explores build automation tool Gradle and how it can be enhanced to manage changes in relational databases, via the use of Gradle plugins
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