I can remember this constant argument of many developers advocating other platforms in the past. Yes you may use Java which is generally ok, but even if you develop an app using your frameworks, nobody is offering hosting for your application servers, there are simply not a lot JVMs in the cloud that you could easily …

Στη ζωή μου έχω αφιερώσει αρκετές μέρες και εβδομάδες στη Java, ελπίζω να υπάρξουν ακόμα πιο πολλές. Την Τετάρτη βρέθηκα και εγώ μαζί με παλιούς γνωστούς από την αγορά εργασίας αλλά και πολλά νέα παιδιά στο Java Day της Oracle Hellas, σε ένα πολύ όμορφο χώρο δίπλα στη Γεννάδειο Βιβλιοθήκη. Αρκετός κόσμος, δεν περίμενα …

Series Previous Post, Next Post We have just defined, our parent pom. A special type of pom that eventually defines the libraries that our application is going to use. It also configures all the maven tools used in order to package each module of our application. You can check out the part -1 sample code here. So up …

Series Next post Why ? Many times, I am trying to resolve several basic or complex Maven / Java EE project structure issues, on my day work. In order to provide the solutions, I often end up experimenting with the project structure, test my deployment on different application servers and fine grain my configuration. …

A quick one, you are a Java Developer and you may not still code towards JDK8 on your project but you would like your IDE or tools to make use of the all new stuff this new version of the jdk & jre brings. I assume you use the latest Eclipse version which currently is Kepler 4.3.2 . Step 1: Install JDK 8 for MacOSX, as …

Με το blog τι έγινε; Τίποτα απάντησα απλά δεν έχω χρόνο, αλλά το blog δεν σταματάει έχει ups και downs. Με προβλημάτισε η ερώτηση του φίλου μου, οπότε είπα να απαντήσω σε κάποια ping. Συνεχίζω να δουλεύω αρκετά εντατικά, ή μπορεί να δουλεύω αρκετά και να μεγαλώνω παράλληλα το θέμα είναι ότι στο τέλος της ημέρας νιώθω …

Step 1: Download the packages Java 6 for MacOSX (by Apple) (1.6_065) Eventually if you already have typed java in your terminal, the system might have already prompted you and installed this one for you, if not download it. Java 7 for MacOSX (by Oracle) (at the time being 1.7.045) Java 8 for MacOSX (by Oracle) Apache …

I am writing this post as a tip and warning rather than an absolute solution. I will try to come back with a workaround for my case (WebSphere 8.5.5), but I am sure that other developers and applications will be affected. I've lost some time trying to figure out the cause of the problem, so for the time being this post …

I have been a huge supporter and user of tools like FindBugs, PMD, Checkstyle during my day to day java development, used mostly under Eclipse, through the related plugins. I have been also preaching about their use and I still do. So please go and install them if you have not already done so! Lately with the …

UPDATE: I have changed the download links for some of the libs, since updated versions are available. The steps remain the same. I have been receiving a lot of requests over the time, from students and people willing to experiment with the Java language, on providing a simple guide on how to setup a Java development …