Category: Programming
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OMG! We launched OMA and EMML!
“” A Language is the best tool one can have. Today we launched the Open Mashup Alliance (OMA) to promote and foster interoperability and portability through an open mashup language. As a founding member of OMA, JackBe has contributed EMML to the Alliance and, indirectly, to the entire mashup community. Joining us (see this, this and this)are other industry leaders such as Adobe, Bank of America, Capgemini, Hinchcliffe & Co., HP, Intel, Kapow Technologies, Programmable Web, Synteractive, and Xignite.
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How I feel about Java…sometimes…
A picture is worth a thousand words they say. So, without much ado, here it is… having been with Java since the beginning, here is how I feel about it now. And to justify with some concrete evidence, here is the page count from the Java In A Nutshell book that was one of my […]
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What's Your Preference – Properties or Preferences?
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I spend some of my time on building a rich UI application using Swing. And when it came to choosing a mechanism to store my user preferences, I decided to not use property files which was how I had stored preferences before. But, now (since Java 1.4) I […]
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RMI Gotchas: Darn it! Not again…
It shouldn‘t be this wicked. Ok, I admit it has been a while since I implemented a Java RMI based client/server. But, it shouldn‘t be this wicked. So, I was trying to get some RMI client/server code running on my machine. And I kept getting was this friggin exception: Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception is […]
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Swing GridBag + Netbeans 4 = Love
Over the years, I have worked on and off on rich user interfaces. Recently, I have been pluggin away at a Swing UI for a cool project called SALSA that I will write about some other time. If you have ever used the Swing GridBag layout, I am sure you will identify with this cool […]
Deepak Alur 