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The Web Beans specification JSR-299 was approved unanimously by the JCP executive committee. This is the first time JBoss (or even Red Hat) has led a JSR, so this is great news to the Java EE community!…

I’ve already commented in a previous post about the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The Google Web Toolkit was the talk of JavaOne 2006, offering developers a way to create Ajax applications by writing Java and having the toolkit generate the client-side JavaScript, which can call back to Java servlets through an RPC-like call. Robert Cooper offers an initial tutorial to get you up and running with GWT.…

In Unification: Struts Action and JSF, Don Brown show us how to use Struts Action 2 and JSF as one framework. Struts Action 2, based on the WebWork 2.2 code, has builtin support for JSF, using an approach that smoothly combines both frameworks into one configuration file, one framework. Struts Action takes the familiar Action-based approach to page logic and navigation, and sprinkles in optional support for JSF components. The result is a framework that lets the developer easily incorporate component-driven pages as application needs dictate.…

Sun Microsystems is planning to release the source code of the Java programming language, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. It’s not a question of whether we’ll open source Java, the question is how Schwartz told delegates in his opening keynote at the tradeshow.…

Google has released Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a code generation framework that lets you code Ajax apps in pure Java. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler to translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.…

The Java EE 5 specification (JSR 244) has passed its final approval ballot unanimously. This means the specifications under it - JSF 1.2, JSP 2.1, EJB 3.0, JAX-WS, and other specifications - are all set to go, even if the implementations aren’t ready for prime time. This clears the way for implementations to solidify compliance, and also providing a stable target for programmers to use in development.…

You know how to open and use database connections for each user, but what about optimizing for many concurrent users? Rather than creating and destroying connections over and over again, established practice calls for use of a pool of connections that can be reused. Kunal Jaggi shows how to implement this strategy in Tomcat and how to stress test the app with JMeter, an open source tool for load testing with a drag-and-drop-style GUI.…

For those who wanted a XLS emitter for a long time, finally here may be a chance to taste. Thanks the Apache POI project and the new layout engine of BIRT 2.0, we can now easily create a XLS emitter though it looks obviously not that fancy yet. You can see the full article here.…

Strecks, a set of open source extensions to the Struts framework aimed at Java 5 users, has been released. Strecks (which stands for “Struts Extensions”) is built on the existing Struts 1.2.x code base. Read Phil Zoio’s article on Strecks, titled Building on Struts for Java 5 Users. Strecks contains a range of features aimed to streamline the Struts programming model. Some key features include: POJO action beans with no framework dependencies action vs.…

Spring-RCP’s mission is to provide an elegant way to build highly-configurable, GUI-standards-following rich-client applications faster by leveraging the Spring Framework, and a rich library of UI factories and support classes. It only has a 0.1.0 release available, but might be worth watching.…