• New Game Dev Platform Launches

    Updated: 2010-09-02 20:51:41
    Finnish game developer Rocket Pack has introduced Rocket Engine, a professional game development platform for the web. Built by and for professional game developers, the Rocket Engine is a fully integrated solution for plugin-free browser game development. The game engine is fully compatible with all major browsers and social gaming platforms, including the iPhone, iPad and [...]

  • Implementing a Tag-Cloud App on Google App Engine with JDO + Security + Groovy Server Pages

    Updated: 2010-09-02 06:48:34
    This article introduces the steps involved in making a web application for Google App Engine platform that uses Google’s persistence and security infrastructure. The application for demonstration is a basic tag-cloud implementation - http://mytagclouds.appspot.com/.

  • Clojure: Mocking

    Updated: 2010-09-02 06:40:56
    An introduction to clojure.test is easy, but it doesn't take long before you feel like you need a mocking framework. As far as I know, you have 3 options. James Sugrue

  • AOL Buys Mobile App Dev

    Updated: 2010-09-01 20:37:30
    AOL has purchased mobile application developer Rally Up to improve its mobile application offerings. For the first time, AOL mobile applications will consist not only of mobile versions of its desktop and web offerings, but also include new products that launch first on mobile devices. Rally Up will be based in AOL’s new West Coast office in [...]

  • The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way - Book Review

    Updated: 2010-09-01 16:42:29
    ISBN or ASIN:  1935182641 Book Author(s):  Michael Fogus Chris Houser Publisher:  Manning Publications Publication Date:  ...

  • Java Concurrency – Part 3 : Synchronization With Intrinsic Locks

    Updated: 2010-09-01 06:16:37
    After learning how to create threads and manipulate them, it’s time to go to one of the most important things: synchronization. Synchronization is a way to make some code thread safe. Code that can be accessed by multiple threads must be made thread safe. James Sugrue

  • How to Copy Bean Properties With a Single Line of Code

    Updated: 2010-09-01 06:07:46
    This article shows how to copy multiple properties from one bean to another with a single line of code, even if the property names in the source and target beans are different. Copying properties from one bean is quite common especially if you are working with a lot of POJOs, for example working with JAXB objects. Lets walk through the following example where we want to copy all properties...

  • Weld Chugging Along

    Updated: 2010-09-01 05:00:45
    The first beta for the next version of JBoss' Weld is here.  It has been approximately six months since JBoss released Weld 1.0.1, which added support for running on Google AppEngine.  The new beta for Weld 1.1 features about 60 bugfixes and new EJB 3.1 features.

  • Don’t TOUCH that debugger, you moron, READ the exception stack

    Updated: 2010-09-01 01:15:28
    There is a tendency to reach the debugger for every error that you run, but in most cases, it is the exception (and the exception stack) that provides enough to solve the problem in 99% of the cases.References Reference:  Don’t TOUCH that debugger, you moron, READ the exception stack ...

  • WorkLight Now Supports BlackBerry Devs

    Updated: 2010-08-31 20:41:37
    Mobile application developers can now use the WorkLight Platform to create and manage apps for BlackBerry OS 5 and OS 6 devices. With this latest addition to its support of iOS and Android devices, WorkLight now allows businesses to cover all three major smartphones with a single platform. “As RIM continues to launch new devices and technologies, [...]

  • Using JDBC to Connect to MySQL Part 3

    Updated: 2010-08-31 01:30:26
    There is another kind of statement which comes in handy when you are issuing an INSERT or UPDATE query. This is the PreparedStatement. The purpose of this object is to handle any characters which would need escaping. For instance, in our UPDATE statement above, we could store our name and status values [...]

  • Javamex survey

    Updated: 2010-08-26 19:30:00
    Readers are invited to take 5 minutes out to answer the site's Java programmer survey. The survey asks you your opinion about various aspects of Java programming: how difficult or easy do you consider aspects of Java such as threading, the 'volatile' keyword, using databases in Java etc. The survey is completely anonymous and the results will be used to improve the focus of future articles published on the Javamex web site.

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