That was a packed week. After a few days at home I had to jump on a plane again to visit Oslo. This was my second time there after last year's JavaZone. This time I was invited to speak at the famous Oracle User Group Norway (OUGN)
Vårseminar. Which turned
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After the successful first
Devoxx UK a few weeks back my interview with Yolande Porier from
Oracle Technology Network finally got published on
Parleys. She had some nice questions for me about my involvement as an individual with the Java EE JSR expert group, and my views on Java EE
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Oracle released
three updates to Java yesterday. It is important to note that they contain several security related changes. The majority of those changes have been announced since a while and first thing to notice is, that Oracle ships as planned.
Oracle's Java Platform Security Manager
Milton Smith recently gave
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Java EE 7 is hot. The first four JSRs passed the final approval ballot recently and GlassFish 4 reached promoted build 83 in the meantime. If you are following my blog you know, that I do most of my work with NetBeans. But I indeed recognize, that there are other IDE
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JayDay 2013 in Munich is an Event for Java-Developers featuring internationally renowned Experts. What started out as a nice little event got even bigger this year. It is still a one day conference but the
speaker line-up is incredible. I am honored to be part of that list again and
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Another conference appearance has been booked for me. I will be speaking at the German Oracle User Group, more precisely at the
Infrastructure and Middleware Community Summit in Mainz in June. This is all about Oracle Infrastructure and Middleware topics and has a great Speaker lineup for the German Oracle
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After my first Devoxx in Belgium last year I decided to give the new UK spin-off a try. Martijn and Ben have been the perfect hosts for a couple of Java related activities close to the London Java Community and I was really looking forward meeting this incredible community in
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Writing and contributing to a specification is one thing. Working with it and looking into real examples a pre-condition if you want to give valuable feedback. The latest promoted GlassFish builds contain the renaming to 4.0 and I thought it might be a good time to give the Java
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The Oracle Cloud is around everywhere these days. It had a rough start with Larry denying the need for a cloud for a very (too) long time and some very early announcements and a very bad availability after last year's Open World nobody seems to be interested anymore. But for
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Jumping around with Java EE development I naturally get the chance to review books in this area. And I really appreciate the chance to do this. Not only to get a chance to possibly learn something new but also to give the best possible guidance on new releases for my
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Lets continue the "
Heroes of Java" series. Today's interview has been planned nearly since the launch of the series and I knew that it would be a tough one to get. I know Marcus since a few years now and he is always busy providing the best diagnostic
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I'm back since two days from my Jfokus trip. After visiting them for the first time back in
2012 it was a pleasure to catch up with the team lead by Mattias Karlsson. They continued to make Stockholm and the conference venue the hottest place for Java developers in Northern
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One of the most popular posts on my blog is the short tutorial about the
JDBC Security Realm and form based Authentication on GlassFish with Primefaces. After I received some comments about it that it isn't any longer working with latest GlassFish 3.1.2.2 I thought it might
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I'm very proud to announce that I will be speaking at this year's Norwegian Oracle User Group (OUGN)
Vårseminar. Not only because I am excited to visit Oslo again but mostly because of the unique venue. A full day at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo is followed by
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Once a year famous
OOP conference is happening literally next to where I live. A 20 minutes ride brings me down to Munich's trade fair center and the biggest hassle I have to cope with is parking. As usual I forget to submit a talk and I was lucky to be invited
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You know that I like to play around with visualizations. I
blogged about a nice way to visualize svn commits over time a while back. Today I finally found some time to run this little magic on the GlassFish svn. And here is the result of roughly 134 committers working
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The "
Heroes of Java" series took a short break. After the first 20 it is time to start over in 2013. This time it is kind of an unexpected hero. During my ongoing search for the real heroes of Java I stumbled upon Coleen.
Coleen Phillimore
is a Hotspot
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Here we go! I'm excited to speak at first ever
Devoxx UK this year! After the tremendous success of the flagship in Belgium and the French spin-off this is the second Devoxx offspring. Hosted by Ben and Martijn and held at the Business Design Center in London, UK.
The Business
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The number one question I get asked is: "Which Java EE Application server should we use?". With the growing adoption of Java EE 6 new compatible application server get certified. The current official
compatibility and certification matrix lists 12 different products certified for the Full Profile, the Web Profile
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We just slipped into 2013 and after a wonderful holiday season it is time to kick off the new posting season on my blog. With all the Java EE 7 specifications moving forward it is finally time to test-drive some of them and give feedback. If you are brave enough
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