Niko & Java

The “Java Performance Tuning” site is known to deliver high quality tips, and this tipp collection (together with a long link list) is especially devoted to optimizing web service consuming resp. publishing operations.

Apropos Spring and Hibernate: Good article from Karl Baum’s Weblog with instructions on how to use the OpenSessionInViewInterceptor in a servlet environment.

Direct Web Remoting (DWR) is an open-source (under Apache Software License) project for using AJAX together with Java, propagating: Easy AJAX for Java. It reduces development time and the likelihood of errors by providing commonly used functions and removing almost all of the repetitive code normally associated with highly interactive web sites.

JDK 5 has changed Source Code Generation in a seminal way, an article by Krishnan Viswanath about the new Java Annotation Facility.

Nice and up-to-date collection of open-source software projects and frameworks related to Java from Tom McQueeney.

JavaGen are very helpful ant taks for generating Java classes (POJO/Hibernate/DTO/Struts) from UML class diagrams resp. the corresponding XMI files (as provided from Poseidon 3.0).

Planet Classpath seems to be the central place of the GNU Classpath project, where developers share their thoughts and diaries via a blog.

Arnaud Vandyck liefert einen Überblick darüber, was sich zwischen Woody und Sarge hinsichtlich Java in Debian geändert hat. Vor allem enthält Sarge verbesserte und neue freie Java-Laufzeitumgebungen. Zusätzlich dazu sei viel Software paketiert und in den main-Abschnitt verschoben worden.