New Look Java Magazine

The official Java magazine from Oracle has received a new look in the form of switching from a heavy PDF based production to a more responsive single page HTML publication. This is fantastic news for the many mobile readers from both a data usage and presentation perspective. As per their issue archives page, it seems […]

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Java 8 features key to adoption

A new report by Typesafe indicates two thirds of developers plan on adopting Java 8 within the next year, with most of them aiming to adopt within 6 months. New versions of Java have always been slow to gain adoption among both developers and to a larger extent, the public. This has often led to […]

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Try Java EE 6 without the commitment

The latest version of the Knappsack Maven Archetypes now supports creating Java EE 6 applications for servlet containers. These projects includes configuration for core Java EE 6 technologies such as JSF, CDI, JPA and Bean Validation and can be run from the command line using the embedded Jetty and Tomcat servlet containers. Also with this […]

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