This took me a while to put together so I thought I’d post it. I wanted the simplest possible template for building a web service in Java. I wanted it to be JAX-WS compliant, so I used the CXF open source implementation which is not only compliant, but also flexible and fast. I also wanted [...]
Tagged cxf, eclipse, Java, maven, soapIt’s almost impossible to keep up with all the fractal-like Java standards related to web services. As fast as each can be learned, Sun invents another, and a dozen open source implementations appear. For my own sanity I tried to create a rough map of some of them. I tried to avoid making recommendations; my [...]
Tagged Java, soap, xmlMaybe Eclipse’s black-hole-like splash screen is more appropriate than its designers realize. Eclipse’s open architecture has enabled the creation of countless useful plugins, and that’s helped maintain its position as the leading Java IDE. But as plugins compound upon plugins, bugs and compatibility issues have been surfacing increasingly frequently, and I’m starting to get the [...]
Every few months my Linksys WRT54G V4 home wireless router stops working and nothing short of a full reset gets it going again. This weekend it happened again. I got fed up and started Googling. I found out I’m not the only one to suffer from this problem. But then I found out that in [...]
Tagged antioxidant, linksys, router, wirelessA few evenings ago I looked out of my kitchen window and saw an airplane’s vapor trail in the sunset - a beautiful, bright, clean, orange line cutting through the clouds. At that moment I had brief but unmistakable feeling of optimism about the human race.
Google’s Protocol Buffers offer lightweight, language-independent object serialization. I love the design, especially as I’m increasingly seeing enterprise networks clogged with hordes of oversized XML messages. Protocol buffer bindings are available for C++, Java, and Python, but not C# yet. Once there is support for .NET, I think this could be a really interesting technology [...]
When developing applications using Eclipse or a similar IDE, you quickly get used to being able to test your software immediately after making a change. Plugins like MyEclipseIDE enable that kind of instant edit/compile/test cycle for web applications as well.
But if you’re building web applications with Maven, it’s not so easy. Maven is a [...]
I ran across the following comments on an El Reg article about virtualization: Comments about “Virtualization: Nothing New”.
He’s right, isn’t he? Having the same company offer both virtualization and grid solutions is a truly virtuous pairing. First you tell people they need a grid solution to make a huge pool of computers look like a [...]
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Good article on Java5 Generics by Martin Wolf:
http://blogs.infosupport.com/martinw/articles/generics.aspx
It seems many programmers are confused about generics, in particular the use of the ? extends … notation. The question mark is called a type wildcard, and is typically used as the value of a type parameter in a generic method. It means that wherever the method is [...]