ralf on November 23rd, 2009

Sun has published milestone 5 (b76) of the upcoming Java JDK 7. JDK 7 release is currently scheduled for September 2010. My standard IDE is eclipse but the current production version 3.5 SR 1 support only Java up to JDK 6. I tried the new eclipse e4 1.0 milestone 2 (status: technical preview) which has [...]

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ralf on September 5th, 2008

GWT 1.5 (official version is 1.5.2) is now finally released and not longer a release candidate. GWT is very nice as AJAX toolkit for a java programmer. You code your application in pure Java and all the JavaScript stuff is done behind the scenes. Important is to understand the build process. The Java Source Code [...]

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ralf on May 6th, 2008

Eclipse 3.3 runs with Java 1.4 but recommended is Java 5. Every customer is different for us. Not every time is Java 5 or the current Java 6 the JRE for development / production. These technical requirements are not fix for all time. So i adjust my laptop settings when i start to work for [...]

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Apache CXF 2.1 is released. I know XFire since a long time as web service provider. CXF is a merger of XFire with celtix, which provided an enterprise service bus. The main reason for choosing XFire rather then Axis was the WS-I BP compatibility. It’s a better arguing with a commercial eai provider [...]

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