Eric Lafortune announced a new version of his free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier.
ProGuard is distributed under the terms of the GPL. You can download the program, documentation, and examples from proguard.sourceforge.net.
Mark Luchini, Dana Duffield and Rongzhong (Alex) Guo wrote an article about how to migrate to WebSphere Application Server v7.
If you are interested, please read the following article here.
Some say, writing a wonderful backend system is not that easy. Writing a nice user interface is even more difficult!
Read this article on smashingmagazine.com
Recently, Boulevart won the Adobe 2008 MAX Europe Award. Congratulations with this new success story!
Guice is Google’s open source dependency injection framework for Java™ development. It enables better testing and modularity by taking away the pain of writing your own factories. Nicholas Lesiecki offers a tour of the most important Guice concepts that will leave you ready to Guice up your applications.
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IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software v7.5 (for short, Rational Application Developer) is the full function Eclipse 3.4 based development platform for developing Java™ Standard Edition Version 6 (Java SE 6) and Java Enterprise Edition Version 5 (Java EE 5) applications with a focus on applications to be deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal. Rational Application Developer provides integrated development tools for all development roles, including Web developers, Java developers, business analysts, architects, and enterprise programmers.
This book consists of nine parts:
Download here
The SpringSource Team announced that the Spring Framework 3.0 M1 is finally available for download!
This release features several major changes, including a start of the major 3.0 themes such as EL and REST support:
as well as various minor enhancements.
Note that Spring Framework 3.0 requires Java 5 or above and J2EE 1.4 or above. This framework is being build on Java 6 and Java EE 5 as the primary platform levels – but rest assured, the framwork will retain compatibility with Java 5 enabled J2EE 1.4 servers such as WebLogic 9 and WebSphere 6.1
This week, IBM has published another draft RedBook. This time it covers some best practices for the WebSphere Process Server.
This book contains the following topics:
Chapter 1. What is WebSphere Process Server Solution Recovery?
Chapter 2. Recovery patterns, anti-patterns, rules and good ideas
Chapter 3. Preventive practices
Chapter 4. Where does the data go when failures occur?
Chapter 5. Recovery scenarios
Appendix A. Troubleshooting tips
You can download the book here
A new redbook has been published. It’s a draft version that includes a technical overview of the runtime server component of the new version of the WebSphere Application Server.
You can download this redbook here.
If you are interessed in Lightroom, on the following website you are able to download two free eBooks … http://www.image-space.com/Downloads/Downloads.html
The first book includes the following topics:
The second book provides you a set of 25 Lightroom 2 tips plus a bonus section on Lightroom techniques.