Interested in a 30 second promotion in Rails Conf Europe 2008 ?
Are you deploying Rails application on GlassFish  in any manner (WAR-based, Gem or Technology Preview 2) ? Are you using Rails and GlassFish combination in a creative way ? Having you been following Rails/GlassFish development/deployment options and have an opinion ? If answer to any...

Manor 'n Rock JSF Security components 1.1 release
We are releasing the Manor 'n Rock JSF Security components 1.1, which includes support for isUserInRole.

TOTD #43: GlassFish v3 Build Flavors
Here are different flavors of GlassFish v3 builds: Build your self Nightly Promoted Stable (Technology Preview 2 as of this writing) You can subscribe to dev@glassfish for all the fun! Otherwise check out plan and schedule for GlassFish v3 Prelude. Technorati: totd glassfish v3 builds prelude

LOTD #6: Rails Deployment on GlassFish in 4 steps and 15 minutes
Charlie describes, in 4 easy steps, how to deploy any Rails application on GlassFish: The main steps are: Step 1: The App Server Step 2: Package your App Step 3: Deploy your application Step 4: Tweaking (Optional) And it should only take 15 minutes on...

Writing a Glassfish v3 Updatecenter module
I recently wrote a (as yet unpublished) Glassfish v3 updatecenter module. Here's how:

LOTD #5: Blogging Gold for Sun - Forrester loves it!
A recent report by Forrester Research published a list of 15 companies that really get corporate blogging and produce blogs that are informative, fascinating, and a joy to read even for people who aren’t die-hard fans of the company. Here is what the report...

Fronting GlassFish v3 with Apache httpd
Finally, GlassFish v3 can now be fronted using Apache httpd via mod_jk and mod_proxy_ajp....

Browser makers walled javascript garden
Why JavaFX should be inlineable with HTML raises an interesting question in my mind. He's making a number of suggestions about JavaFX and many boil down to the power of "View Source" and perhaps JavaFX script code should be directly...

Developers in Second Life, a Virtual Community
I've written a little about virtual worlds in some of my previous blogs, and this morning I'm excited to announce I'll be working more with the developer community in Second Life for Sun.

How to Integrate Applications With OpenSSO
A new SDN article delves into the details.

Creating Fixed-Column Tables in Pivot
Demonstrates how to create tables with fixed columns in a Pivot application.

JSR-166y Provides New Concurrency Benefits
Development of new and improved methods for programming multithreaded applications has never been as critical as it is today, due to the emergence of multicore processors. I've been developing multithreaded applications since the early 1990s, when I was implementing mathematical models on multi-processor Sun machines using Sun's threading libraries...

Quick Updates...
Some quick updates about Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA book, Marge Podcast at JavaOne and M3DD 2008 Call For Papers.

A Better Applet Experience, Part 2: Poster Frames
In part one of this series I showed you how to set up a loading image, including an animated spinner gif. In this part I'll show you how use a screenshot or poster frame to speed up page loading. Quicktime...

Fire Eagle updates from your Java phone
With all the travel I'm doing lately I've been looking for a convenient way to keep people who are interested in getting in touch with me updated on my current whereabouts - I don't know about you but I...

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