Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.
Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active
players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we
identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony,
if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the
"Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web
sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT
operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and
see" by downloading... (more)
Java Developer Magazine on Ulitzer
These days the popularity of Ext JS (a JavaScript library) is gaining
momentum. One of the most popular widgets within Ext JS is the DataGrid. The
reason - displaying data from a database is one of the most common tasks of a
web application. "Out of the box" the DataGrid has functionality (for
instance, ascending or descending sorting and reordering of c... (more)
Easier to Use and Better Looking
We’ve introduced a new keyword search feature for opentaps, based on
Hibernate search, Apache lucene, and Google Web Toolkit We’ve also enhanced
searching for invoices, payments, accounting transactions, and orders with
new fields you can search with We think the new look for opentaps
applications is a lot better and hope you agree. For Java developers, we... (more)
Using HTTP headers and default browser protocol handlers provides an
opportunity to rediscover the usability and simplicity of the mailto
protocol.
Over the last decade it's become unsafe to use the mailto protocol on a
website due to e-mail harvesters and web scraping. No one wants to put their
e-mail address out on teh Internets because two minutes after doing so you
end up on a trill... (more)
OpenJPA is the open source implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA).
OK, so what's that? THAT is a way to persist information in Java by way of
using a back-end database and not having to write a bunch of messy JDBC code.
Why is this needed? Well maybe it's not. But unless you are writing
calculator software, some output, settings or something has to be saved off.
There are plent... (more)