Announcement of Hades 0.5.0 release, detailing Spring namespace simplification, OSGi compatibility, and a new programmatic API.
Explores using Scala traits and Spring for Java application modularity, discussing alternatives to OSGi for managing customer-specific code modules.
A developer shares useful Eclipse IDE plugins for Java development, including tools for resource bundle editing, JCR repository browsing, and Hudson build monitoring.
A Java implementation for converting dates to human-readable formats like '5 minutes ago' or 'yesterday', similar to Twitter's date display.
Announces the release of Hera 0.4, a Spring-based plugin library, adding plugin ordering via Spring's @Order and Ordered interface.
Troubleshooting guide for OBIEE sawserver startup failure due to a Java connection refused error in analytics servlet.
A technical tutorial on implementing background Daemon modules in Hippo CMS 7 for scheduled tasks and repository components.
A developer's anticipation and plans for attending the Java Posse Roundup 2009, an unconference focused on Java and geek activities.
A developer's troubleshooting guide for Apache Commons FileUpload, focusing on resolving a missing dependency issue in a Java web project.
Explores a subtle bug in Java's Enum class when using getClass() on enums with methods, and provides a solution using getDeclaringClass().
A presentation about the Hades project was given at the Java User Group Karlsruhe, following an introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming.
A developer details a Java compiler bug with generic type inference in static factory methods and provides a workaround.
Spring 3.0 M1 is now available in Maven repositories, addressing initial release feedback.
A developer's personal recap and impressions from attending the Devoxx 2008 technology conference, covering talks on Scala, Java performance, Spring, and REST.
Announcement of Hades 0.3, an open-source project release featuring a new EclipseLink-based DAO implementation and package refactorings.
A developer's preview of attending the Devoxx conference, including plans to present on the Hades project and share daily updates.
Announcing a presentation on OpenXML document interoperability from an open-source perspective, featuring PHPExcel and OPENXML4J.
Announcement of upcoming talks on Hades, a Java persistence library, at various developer conferences and user groups.
Explores the conceptual role of metadata in Java EE development, comparing annotations vs. XML and discussing separation of concerns.
A technical blog post introducing a minimal Java plugin system using Spring, focusing on PluginRegistry and dynamic plugin discovery.
