Travelling, and not Arriving

Glassfish in the trenches: Domains cheatsheet

Often the new Glassfish adopters aren’t really familiar with the concept of domain, which is really handy when developing Java EE applications.

First of all, what’s a domain? A complete (and complex) definition can be found here. Simply put, a domain is a Java EE engine which can be administered, configured, started and stopped separately from [...]

February meeting of the Java User Group Milano

The 23rd meeting of the Java User Group Milano will take place on Thursday, 22nd February, at 6.45 pm. This month we will talk about Maven 2 and Ruby. This is the detailed agenda:

6.45:Welcome
7.00: Maven 2 by Daniele Dellafiore
8.00: Ruby for Java Programmers by Ugo Cei

You can find more details here, and the GoogleMap to [...]

Debugging Glassfish with Eclipse - Reloaded

A years ago I published on this blog a pretty successful screencast explaining how to debug a Glassfish application with Eclipse; unfortunately, some months later, a cracker decided to break into Wordpress instance, and deleted every content. So, no more screencast available, and I obviously didn’t have a backup.
Anyway, since the post is still there, [...]

ApacheCon Europe program published

The schedule of the next ApacheCon Europe (Amsterdam, May 1-4 2007) is online; unfortunately my proposal hasn’t been accepted, but Sourcesense will be well represented by Gianugo, Ugo and Andrew.

Wicket-contrib-javaee: 1.0 released

I’ve just released the first public version of wicket-contrib-javaee, a Wicket module that provides integration with Java EE 5. With wicket-contrib-javaee you can use Java EE 5 resource injections; three annotations are supported:

@EJB
@PersistenceUnit
@Resource

This release works with Wicket 1.2.x; a version for Wicket 2.x is under construction.

Check it out! You can download the release here; the [...]

Article: Migrating from EJB 2.x to EJB 3.0

There’s a new interesting article on Java.net by Sangeetha S. and Subrahmanya S. V. titled “Migrating from EJB 2.x to EJB 3.0“; long, detailed and quite exhaustive… a good start for those interested in getting in touch with EJB 3.0. Check it out.

Finally, javaee.jar in a Maven repository

It took quite a lot of time, but finally Sun listened to its users and decided to publish Java EE 5 API (the famous javaee.jar archive you find in every Glassfish installation) in a Maven repository (see Ludovic announcement).
Now, creating a maven build for your Java EE 5 project is simpler! Just add

<dependency>
<groupid>javaee</groupid>
<artifactid>javaee-api</artifactid>
<version>5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

to your pom.xml [...]

ApacheCon last-minute submission

At the very last minute, yesterday I was able to submit my proposal for ApacheCon Europe, which will take place in Amsterdam next May. My proposal sounds like “Rapid development with Apache Wicket and EJB 3″, and reflects what I’m trying to do in this period: create a “development environment” (which involves tools, frameworks, IDEs) [...]

Wicket in the press

There’s a nice article on Wicket by Timothy M. O’Brien on OnJava; it is not interesting because Timothy is a Wicket expert (in fact, this is not the case), but because it is a sort of “first impression” of a guy who has come through the documentation and code samples. And, as we all know, [...]

JugMilano’s January 11th meeting cancelled

Just a quick post to announce that Dennis Reedy won’t be able to come to Milan on January 11th, so our meeting will be cancelled.
However, we have another meeting scheduled for January 18th, with another great international speaker: Jonas Boner.
Check this page for all the details.