redemption in a blog

Web development site SitePoint has recently started a series of articles on Java in it’s Spotlight on Java and J2EE. A new article is published everyday, and the quality is good. SitePoint is popularly-known as one of THE places for PHP articles (its PHP forum is also one of the busiest) – this shift in [...]

From atog: found this very interesting keyboard spinner with code (in Java) posted. I tried it out and it works! There’s a hypnotic effect watching the lights flashing.

Stephen Ferg claims A programmer can be significantly more productive in Python than in Java. in his article “Python & Java: a Side-by-Side Comparison“. The basis of his argument centres around dynamic typing in Python, among other things like code verbosity.

Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter’s recent JavaLive chat further talks on generics and typesafe enums, 2 of the more significant new language features in the Java 1.5. There is interesting discussion on generics especially. My favorite though is the enhanced for loop which is similar to the foreach construct in languages like PHP and Python. [...]

I’m confused by BEA Weblogic Server’s implementation of JMX. I’ve been trying to figure out how WLS 8.1 allows configuration and addition of new services so that I can run JADE (Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) as a managed service (via JMX). Basically, it would be a “port” of BlueJADE (which works for JBoss) for WLS. [...]