NetBeans 6 released
Netbeans 6 is now available to download, with more editor enhancements and language support. As an open source IDE and rich client platform, Netbeans 6 is an excellent step forward for Sun.
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Sun CEO’s internal memo to employees, before his resignation
about 3 days ago - No comments
Today I found that Jonathan Schwartz has tweeted about his resignation as Sun CEO. Due to the new control to Oracle. Schwartz sent following memo to his employees. Jonathan is an avid blogger used to blog on blogs.sun.com/jonathan.
He also tweeted about his last blog post on Sun.com, saying “Where Life Takes Me Next“.
Following is the More >
Sun.com is dead now
about 1 week ago - 8 comments
Just found that sun.com is now redirecting to oracle.com. Some days back I visited Sun’s original website. But it didn’t took long by Oracle to make it red. Well I am a regular visitor of Sun forums. And with this change, I am trying to adjust myself with this transition. As I am having some More >
I have started preparing for SCJP
about 1 week ago - 3 comments
Its been a year since I purchased the voucher for SCJP 5.0. But I cant concentrate to have time to prepare it. From last night I have taken the oath to finally make it done. I have started with the book SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055) by Kathy Sierra More >
Useful cheat sheets on Cloud Computing and Google App Engine for Java
about 4 weeks ago - No comments
Just read cheat sheets (Refcard) by Dzone on Cloud Computing and Google App Engine for Java. They contain a very jumped to the point and quick reference on these things. You can read to have a quick overview.
Read them here:
Cloud Computing
Google App Engine for Java
Got two books on Google App Engine for Java
about 1 month ago - 4 comments
Recently I got two books on Google App Engine for Java. Programming Google App Engine by Oreilly and Beginning Google App Engine by Apress. There is less material and comprehensive online tutorials available on this. So its better that you read book on it. I started reading Oreilly’s book. I completed some of the basic More >
Spoken on Google App Engine at a conference in UET
about 1 month ago - 11 comments
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I have presented following slides there. Also coded More >
Tutorial: JPA on Google App Engine
about 1 month ago - 10 comments
This project will create and delete an entity record. I have chosen JPA for datastore in app engine. You can also look JDO for this purpose. But my choice to go for JPA is due to Sun standardization on it.
I am using App Engine SDK version 1.2.18
Project name: engineplay
URL: http://engineplay.appspot.com
Project structure:
UserPrefs.java: The entity class
package com.engineplay.datastore.pojos;
import More >
Upgrading to Google App Engine Java SDK 1.2.8
about 2 months ago - 4 comments
I was getting following exception while trying to code my first interaction with JPA in Google App Engine.
org.datanucleus.metadata.InvalidMetaDataException:
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After some searching I came to know that I should upgrade More >
Determine whether application is running on local server or App Engine
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If you are working on developing some application on Google App Engine. You may come up with such situation to switch your production code with your local dev code. Following is my solution for this problem. I have initialized a servlet from web.xml. That set appropriate value in a static boolean. I will use this More >
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about 4 months ago - No comments
If you are developing web application on Google App Engine for Java. And you dont know what this exception is. You can be in trouble. The container throws this exception for those requests which take time more than 30 seconds. In other words GAE wants every requests to be fullfilled within 30 seconds.
Case
I am developing More >
