Well, we have been doing it for a long time, now the future looks more interesting as we are getting an application server from SpringSource itself, which will natively support Spring and OSGi.
For more information, visit the following links:
SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE
I’m excited to see this recent thread at TheServerSide.com. It says that Jetty is showing strong growth. Looking back one year down the road, I’m glad that we made the decision of using Jetty for both running the openfire chat server and also running our middle tire server which is responsible for routing the chats and filtering access restrictions. Since the first deployment of our applications on Jetty, it is living happily ever after with Jetty. Being very light weight and having a small foot print, jetty has proven to be one of the stablest containers I’ve used so far.
It seems that Jetty has already become a strong contender in the market which was mainly focused around Tomcat.
I am quite sure that most java developers, who played with Swing / SWT / AWT often fell into the problem of selecting the right layout manager for their application. With the recent developments of Eclipse, Netbeans and Idea, it is quite easy to generate IDE specific codes which you are recommended not to edit and are taken care of by the IDE itself. But many of us still love to hand code simple GUI apps, and MiG Layout can be a breath of fresh air to them. Please visit their site, worth taking a look and spending some time with it.
Recently, I’m high into listening podcasts, or watching presentations of different Java shows. As I was searching for some major source of such entertainment, I stumbled on this website worth taking a look:
Another reason for me to look for a high bandwidth ISP for home.
A CS lecturer from Stanford, namely Nick Parlante, has created this site: http://www.javabat.com/ . It is a neat idea to get the students going and test out their java skills online. He describes some sample problems and gives the users a place to put their codes. Upon completion, the user can submit their code and run tests against expected results. Definitely recommended for people who are learning java.
Here is something new! Researchers from Oxford has developed full x86 virtualization at the level of pure java, resulting running DOS (and other OSs) event with applets. See yourself!
Google has reported that it released guice, a lightweight dependency injection framework which they say that they use for their mission critical projects (adwords). Few of the Spring developers are also involved into the guice project. It will be interesting to see how Spring framework, and guice complement/compete/merge with each other.