Do you need to create a Firefox or Internet Explorer shortcut to your website in a client’s desktop? To create an internet shortcut just create a new text file where the file extension is URL. The internet shortcut extension needs to be capitalized to URL. As an example, I’ll create a Juixe.URL [...]
Jetty is a lightweight open source Java-based HTTP Server and Servlet container. Jetty’s small footprint makes it perfect for embedding into larger Java applications, in fact Jetty is used by the likes of Jboss Application Server and Apache Geronimo.
Embedding Jetty is extremely easy. For the most part you just create a new instance [...]
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Google recently made available a new JavaScript-based API for downloading RSS and Atom feeds. Up to now I have been using Magpie RSS for downloading, caching, and displaying feeds. I was just thinking of tinkering with Feedtools for manipulating and handling feeds in Ruby/Rails, but I would much rather like for Google to [...]
It seems to me that there is a common theme, or meme, propagating in the background of developers’ mind as I keep reading how such and such technology is dead. Take for example the latest incarnation of this question asked by Zarar Siddiqi, Are JSPs Dead? I would suppose that JSPs are dead [...]
HSQLDB is a fast, small, and robust relational database management system (RDBMS) written in Java. HSQLDB provides both in-memory and disk-based database implementations. HYSQLDB is small enough that it can be embedded into an application with little effort and is currently in use by OpenOffice, Jboss, Jira, and Mathematica amongst other software applications.
Embeddinging [...]
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I had to update our project wiki and detail our current software development environment. I found that we are lagging a bit behind the latest Java technologies and tools, but from a business perspective I think it is hard to up sell existing customers just so that developers can use the latest Java language [...]