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For those who want to take off into the wide blue yonder of ASP.NET 2.0, read Cristian and Zak’s ASP.NET 2.0: A Getting Started Guide. You’ll tame the installation process, sink your teeth into two ASP.NET languages, and conquer .NET programming basics with your bare hands. Finally, you’ll pull server controls, user controls, master pages, and CSS into the beginnings of an application.…

If you have ever tried to draw gantt charts with JFreeChart you have already noticed that it’s a very simplistic implementation - it doesn’t have the facility to display dependency lines or milestones. Gantt chart demo from JFreeChart samples: In a recent project I needed some additional features like: Summary tasks Milestones/deliverables Dependencies between task and milestones/deliverables So I modified BarRenderer.java, GanttRenderer.java, GanttCategoryDataset.java, Task.java, and TaskSeriesCollection.java appropriately and also created my own class called LineAndShapeGanttRenderer.…

The first development build (2.0.1) of Apache Struts 2 project has been released. Struts 2 was originally known as WebWork 2. After working independently for several years, the WebWork and Struts communities joined forces to create Struts 2. This new version of Struts is designed to be simpler to use and closer to how Struts was always meant to be. Some key changes are: Smarter! Improved Design - All Struts 2 classes are based on interfaces.…

Right now there are two extensions for .NET that I find very interesting.

The first one is Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) and the other one is the Atlas Toolkit.

For those looking for more information about LINQ, visit LINQ Project Overview at MSDN, and Scott Guthrie’s last post where he shares the code samples and slides from his TechEd LINQ Talk in Australia.

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After reading the great article Deploying BIRT from Jason Weathersby I decide to create a little example on how to use BIRT Report Engine API (RE API) with Apache Struts framework.

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Alexander Netkachev has a nice set of articles in his site about Zend Framework (MVC-based framework written in PHP) and its features, how to integrate it with others frameworks like PRADO (component-based and event-driven framework written in PHP5) or Dojo library (Javascript/AJAX toolkit), and more. Have a look at Alex @ Net.…

Tribix 2.1.0 final - Extended emitters for BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) provides a set of extended emitters for BIRT 2.1.0 final or above. It comes along with a PPT (MS PowerPoint) emitter preview release. You can now export all your reports made with the BIRT Reporting System to Excel, or even preview them in PowerPoint. This version does support fixed-column-width sheet output and image export to Excel which are great news since my last post about Reporting Tools.…

Problem - You want to use the last Hibernate 3 (Object to Relational Mapping Solution) with a code generation tool that automatically generates your Hibernate descriptor files, and build your project with an advanced build tool like Maven2.

Solution - Use maven2-xdoclet2-plugin.

Maven is a popular open source build tool for enterprise Java projects; it can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information (POM file).

XDoclet is an open source code generation engine with the goal of continuous integration. It enables Attribute-Oriented Programming for java. It uses custom JavaDoc-like tags to generate external resource files to support the main Java classes. XDoclet has mainly been used for the auto-generation of EJB descriptors (and related J2EE container technologies). XDoclet2 is a rewrite of the XDoclet engine. It allows you to use Hibernate 3 features, Java5 language features in your model POJOs, and has substantially better error reporting than XDoclet.

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JBoss Seam 1.0, an application framework for Java EE 5 based on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML(AJAX), Java Serve Faces(JSF), Enterprise Java Beans(EJB3), and other technologies, has been released. Read more in JBoss SEAM 1.0: rethinking web application architecture at InfoQ. The Seam project is proud to announce the release of JBoss Seam 1.0 GA, an application framework for Java EE 5. Seam aims to be the most productive platform for development of enterprise and rich internet applications in any programming language.…

Microsoft is finally ready to enter the high-performance computing market, a technology dominated by open-source Linux technology. Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, a 64-bit operating system for industry-standard x64 processors, will be released to manufacturing on June 9, with general availability of the product scheduled for August. More information on Microsoft to Take On Linux in HPC Space.…