Sam’s random musings

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language:

fullduplex.org » How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) sometimes makes it difficult to remember what language you’re currently using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers who [...]

Oh man so true so true

(Via Mind-NOX.)

Restlet - Lightweight REST framework for Java:

Restlet is a lightweight REST framework for Java. It helps you build Web applications that blur the lines between Web sites and Web services by embracing REST, the architectural style of the Web. As every major REST concept has a corresponding Java class, the mental mapping between your RESTful Web design and your code is straightforward.
http://www.restlet.org/

EJB 3.0 Articles

Marked for Rush…

(Via O’Reilly Weblogs.)

HiveMind on PHP and Java:

Our buddies over at hivemind.co.uk have published another PHP article. This time, instead of decrying PHP, they show how to use the PHP-Java bridge. The article itself, titled How to Bridge PHP and Java for Powerful Web Solutions it technically solid for the most part. I wonder about the advice on creating an autoexec.bat file to set your PATH and Java’s CLASSPATH but it is technically accurate, you can do it this way.

Beyond that, there is a good primer for getting the JDK setup and operating on your machine in a minimum number of steps. (and since it’s Windows based, it’s important to know that no reboots are required for this installation.) Once you have the JDK installed, they walk you through a quick “hello world” of creating a Java class and using it in PHP.

Seems prety simple and if you have existing Java code it is cool to leverage that, I wonder how this relates to the java bridge in Zend Plateform.

(Via Zend Developer Zone.)

Design Review Tips:

(Via Bug Bash.)

DWR 1.1 Released: Java Proxy Ajax Framework:

Joe Walker has announced the release of DWR 1.1, a proxy-based Ajax framework that integrates with server-side Java.

New features in DWR 1.1:

• The DHTML library (DWRUtil) has been improved, it’s now better at manipulating tables to have more detailed styling and filtering
• DWRUtil is also better at manipulating radio buttons, checkboxes, divs and spans.
• There are new Converters for Enums and Objects,
• And the BeanConverter can keep properties hidden from Javascript.
• There’s new experimental integration with Struts, JSF, Beehive.
• The Spring and Hibernate support has been improved, as has integration with various scripting languages.
• DWR now supports synchronous calling and improved error handling, timeouts and call hooks.

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Feed icon template:

I really appreciate Microsoft’s decision to adopt Firefox’s feed icon. So you might guess that I was even more excited when I heard of Matt Brett’s “Feed Icons” project.

I have to say that the new icon looks better then the old orange block… but there is something to be said for the message it sends.

(Via Bartelme Design – Journal.)

Spring and DWR integration:

Dejan Bosanac recently posted about integrating Spring and with the Java ajax library DWR. His entry builds upon previous work done by Bram Smeets, and Bram actually comments on some possible improvements to Dejan’s setup.

Bram is also working on doing full Spring integration for DWR 2.0, which will allow two nice features: using the Spring IoC container to configure DWR, removing the need for dwr.xml. Also, a DWR controller will be available for those using Spring MVC, so features like localization will be easiliy available without extra work.

See also Matt Raible’s integration of DWR + script.aculo.us with Appfuse, and our ealier post on Matt enjoying DWR.

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Struts Ajaxian Web Applications:

Struts is the grand-daddy of Java web frameworks, and although the buzz has moved on to other Java web frameworks like JavaServer Faces, WebWork, Tapestry, … a lot of people are still writing Struts applications.

Paul Browne has written an introductory article called Sprinkle Some AJAX Magic in Your Struts Web Application.

The article focuses on the Ajax client side, rather than integration with Struts.

Yo Rush.

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)