it's been a while and this problem keeps coming back and .back. When you develop your Quartz Job extending the J ob interface - bear in mind and review your code - in the execute() method, make sure that whatever wrong happens during execution - you properly throw a JobExecutionException so that is properly caught and …

It was a very busy day, and unfortunately I could not live update - but better late than never.it's my first time to use ScribeFire as well, let's see how it will perform. So this was the official start of the Devoxx - Conference. The previous 2 days are usually marked as University. Official key notes are held during …

Day two, here we go again. Early wake up - quick breakfast and off we go to the metropolis venue center. This year the exhibition area was almost prepared from uni day 2 with corporate stands. The tshirt and freebies hunting has just began. I got a really nice agile board - and I hope that they are going to let me post …

Well here we are again - day one of the university. There are still lots of people ,maybe a bit less comparing to previous years! Anyway the idea remains the same, excellent talks, nice line up, nice venue here we go! My first talk of the day is one of my favorites anyway. JBPM4 in Action ( Tom Baeyens and Joram …

it's almost my second year participating in a project that features a J2EE application that uses a work-flow engine and the related BPM tools. Our main goal is to map our client's manual business processes to fully or semi automated work flow process that usually involve a large amount of human interaction through …

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I have to admit, it was quite a shock! I was enjoying my last easter holiday day off, in the sunny center of Athens, when eventually I had a quick look on my emails. Lots of replies in the Java Champions mailing list, the subject? 'Oracle buys Sun'. Thousands of students over the last decades have learn to identity the …

So, I have to use Eclipse Ganymedes 3.4 for some time @ work, I don't know how long I will last (the previous time it took me 1 week to switch back to Netbeans). Anyway, the reason is I have to work with some eclipse plugins -> JBoss tools! Anyway one of things that really annoys me in Eclipse is the SVN support. My …

1997-1998 -> 2009. Πέρασαν πάνω από 10 χρόνια, όταν τρέχαμε μαζί με τον Ηλία και τον Κώστα στα live μαζί με άλλα 100 άτομα για να ακούσουμε ίσως το πιο διαφορετικό Ελληνικό rock συγκρότημα των 90s με ήχο απ_ έξω και στοίχο ελληνικό! Κατς την ταπεινή μου άποψη group σαν τους Ονειροπαγίδα δεν έχει ξανάβγεί στην Ελληνική …

So this is it, another JHUG event (Sponsored by Sun Hellas this time) has come to an end. I am actually very happy, and I would like to share my thoughts on this one, despite the fact that this event was not packed - like the previous. It is a beautiful Saturday here in Athens, summer is just in the corner (or just …