One type of exception is a contingency, which means that a process was executed that cannot succeed because of a known problem (the example he uses is that of a checking account, where the account has insufficient funds, or a check has a stop payment issu

Building Software Factories is not as easy as were promised

Two years ago, some of us wrote a paper predicting the demise of “One Size Fits All” [datbases]

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels.

The Lucene Web Service is a REST-compliant Java servlet capable of searching and managing multiple Lucene indices via the web. It is built upon the Atom Publishing Protocol and conforms to the OpenSearch 1.1 standard. Distributions are licensed under the

Using Hadoop to connect EC2 to S3 storage. Application uses Hadoop file system on top of S3.

FormBuilder dynamically builds forms

large-scale reuse on the web. build application mashups visually.

2007 will be the year of Groovy

mount any number of file systems on EC2 instances backed by S3

Basic Java2d tutorial

build a miniature web site

Java Search Engine Framework build on Lucene. Provides API to plug in “devices”… any type of data source indexable. JDBC, JPA, file system, etc.

Stripes is a Java web application framework claiming to require little configuration

feed builder in ruby

Nutch as a distributed application platform

Dojo Offline Toolkit kickoff!

Will dynamic languages on the JVM succeed?

ResultSet to collections, externalizing sql statements and named parameter support

build sql statements using java code

JaxMe SQL building API

JaxMe JavaSource generator framework

Java REST Annotations

HTTP binding for CXF to build REST style services

parse JSON using Stax parser

serialize objects to XML and back again

“fake” and worthless domain models

distributed source code repository

transform JSON like XSLT

Discussion on the “class” division as a result of jav a going open source