• RESTful error handling with Tomcat and SpringMVC 3.x

    Updated: 2010-08-31 21:23:21
    Handling errors in a REST way is seemingly simple enough: upon requesting a resource, when an error occurs, a proper status code and a body that contains a parseable message and using the content-type of the request should be returned. The default error pages in Tomcat are ugly. Not only they expose too much of [...]

  • Five Things You Should Know About ...Java Generics

    Updated: 2010-08-31 06:18:03
    Generics are one of the most controversial Java language features. Generics allows a type or method to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety, making Java a fully statically typed language. In this article, I am going to talk about five things that every Java developer should know about Generics.Generics are implemented using Type Erasure In Java a class or...

  • Daily Dose - The Emotion Markup Language

    Updated: 2010-08-31 05:00:40
    The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers.  This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as well as more human-like interaction capabilities for computers.  Hopefully this means that some day our computers may be more friendly, literally.Ruby on Rails 3 Pulls Into the Station

  • James Gosling Launches Java T-Shirt Campaign

    Updated: 2010-08-30 11:44:35
    James Gosling has just launched a few t-shirt designs to hold Oracle to their pledge to free Java. The CafePress store has a number of different tshirts all with the tagline "Just Free It. Hold Oracle to their Pledge", along with some mugs, buttons and magnets.

  • Persistent State Machine with Apache SCXML

    Updated: 2010-08-30 10:45:57
    I'm bored of reinventing the wheel. Everytime I need a state machine to ensure my states traverse only valid transitions, I find myself either not bothering, because I trust my coding (and write all the necessary unit tests of course), or writing very similar code over again. James Sugrue

  • JavaOne May Be Dead

    Updated: 2010-08-29 14:15:00
    Welcome Register Sign-in Search Jump to a Magazine NET AJAX APACHE CLOUD COMPUTING CMS COLDFUSION CRM ECLIPSE FLEX HP IPHONE JAVA LINUX OPEN SOURCE OPEN WEB ORACLE PERL PHP POWERBUILDER PYTHON RED HAT RUBY SAP SEARCH SILVERLIGHT SOA SYMBIAN VIDEO VIRTUALIZATION WEB 2.0 WEBLOGIC WEBSPHERE WIRELESS XML Home Subscribe Advertise Authors Topics Videos Events Webcasts Java : Email Alerts Newsletters Get Java : Homepage Mobile NET AJAX Cloud Eclipse Flex Open Web iPhone Java Linux Open Source Oracle PowerBuilder Security SOA Virtualization Web 2.0 Java Authors : Steve Pieczko AccuRev Communications Fuat Kircaali Yakov Fain Maureen O'Gara Related Topics : Java Oracle Java : Blog Post JavaOne May Be Dead Google pulls out all 17 of its presentations from the upcoming conference in San Francisco By

  • REST Security at JavaOne

    Updated: 2010-08-21 11:00:00
    I'm speaking with Vikas Jain from Oracle at Java One (co-located with Oracle Open World this year) on the topic of REST Security. The session link is below:read more

  • Stick your neck out

    Updated: 2010-08-11 16:32:34
    Our office had a few critters earlier in the spring. I came in to find one trapped one morning. A week earlier, one jumped out of my food stash desk drawer. I found out mice really like chocolate.

  • goodbye

    Updated: 2010-08-10 20:20:06
    spent some time on the weekend getting rid of the backyard jungle.

  • hit me

    Updated: 2010-08-04 20:08:05
    spent some time on the weekend getting rid of the backyard jungle.

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