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Useful Java Utilities and Frameworks

There are so many useful Java frameworks and utilities out there that are free and open source that it boggles the mind. Here are a few of my recent favorites. Feel free to add your own to the list....

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Closures Are in Again

According to Sun, the controversial language feature, Closures, that was previously removed from the JDK 7 feature list has now been added in again (via).  I’m looking forward to the JSR on this one....

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Spring 3.0 RESTful Web Services By Example

Update:See this post for an updated code example that works with Spring 3.0.1.RELEASE. If you’re reading this then you’re probably aware that the new Spring 3.0 release will have REST support (If...

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Break the Build? Face the Wrath of Chuck Norris.

Last week I was looking for a Hudson plugin that would hot deploy a web application to a remote container. In the process I managed to find several other useful and, admittedly, fun plugins. Findbugs...

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Spring 3.0 REST Release Update

In December 2009 I talked about getting a RESTful web service up and running using Spring 3.0.0.RC3. Since then Spring has had 3.0.0.RELEASE and 3.0.1.RELEASE. One of these releases caused my code...

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Windows CoffeeScript Auto-Compiler using Groovy and JDK 7 WatcherService

Update: Node.js for Windows has been improved since this post, so this information is obsolete. Last time I checked I was able to run CoffeeScript the same on Windows as I do on Linux and OSX. If...

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Play Framework 2.1: The Bloom is Off The Rose

Update: This post has gotten a lot more attention than I expected and I just want to say to those reading: Thanks for stopping by! On a recent project, my team evaluated several web frameworks for an...

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Play 2.1 Addendum

In my previous post, Play 2.1: The Bloom Is Off The Rose, I talked about several real-world problems I’ve had when using Play 2.1. I’ve since received responses from the Play team which prompted me to...

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Comments Working Again

In the past week, I’ve noticed a ton of traffic to one of my blog posts, but no comments. At first I thought it was a fluke, but then I got suspicious and tried to comment myself. I received an error...

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Changing Play 2 DB Configuration At Runtime: Beware of Dragons

Maybe you work for a company that leaves DB passwords in plaintext in configuration files on their servers. You would probably be among the majority. Or maybe your company encrypts passwords in...

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