Many Android applications use REST or another HTTP based protocol to communicate with a server. Working with HTTP and HTTPS on Android is generally fairly straightforward and well documented. Depending on the version of the Android OS, either HTTPClient or HttpURLConnection “just work”. Either one can be used, but the official recommendation is to use … Read More
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This techcast episode features the open source PDF API developer Bruno Lowagie. His iText library has been used by many Java developers. One of the earier open-source Java APIs, iText was originally written to provide PDF version 1.3-compliant output. This was not the first API that Bruno created to handle PDF, as we’ll hear in … Read More
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From the abstract: Martin Flower states that the definition of legacy code is code without tests. You test your server-side code, but if you are working on a site with a fair amount of non-trivial JavaScript (ajax call, extensive callbacks, etc.) you really should be testing your JavaScript as well. All the untested JavaScript code … Read More
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DevNews #41 is brought to you by Chariot Solutions, leaders in software development in mobile, web, and integration, as well as mentoring and training. Find out about our services at chariotsolutions.com. Links: New York City gets a Software Engineering High School – Joel on Software – How cool is this? Wouldn’t it be awesome to … Read More
This is an opinion piece that represents the views of the author, and does not represent the official stance of Chariot Solutions. But sometimes it is fun to weigh in on the news of the day. There has been quite a dust up in the blogosphere about Yammer’s decision to switch from using Scala to … Read More
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In this episode, Ryan Campbell joins Ken to talk about the CloudBees development platform, Dev@Cloud, and Java runtime platform, Run@Cloud. Dev@Cloud can host private maven snapshot and release repositories, your GIT or SVN version control, and hosted Jenkins CI testing. For information about CloudBees or about the platforms, including hosted Hudson and open source CI … Read More
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This week we catch up with all of the world’s news in what normally is a quiet August. Then we discuss some new releases in the Firefox world, the new Java Lambda decision, Java 7 features, and a warning about Java 7 and Lucene. Hosts: Jason Gtitman and Ken Rimple Show Notes Lamba decision for … Read More
As Java consultants and developers, a very large percentage our projects are web applications. We have become accustomed to depending on MVC web frameworks, and almost take for granted that at some level, we will be handling HTTPServletRequests, providing HTTPServletResponses, and deploying our applications to either a servlet container or a full J2EE server. Every … Read More
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Today we speak with Boris Bokowski, a committer on the Eclipse Platform UI project, and a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. His participation in Ecilpse dates back to Eclipse 1.0, when he coded the CVS client for the IDE. We discuss Eclipse e4, an incubator for new technologies on the Eclipse project. There are several … Read More
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As always, social bookmarking on delicious.com for the devnews delicious.com/developernews/10 However, here are the links… Links: EIP ‘Loan Broker’ Reference Implementation (Part 1) | SpringSource Team Blog Guillaume Nodet’s blog: Spring-DM, Aries Blueprint and custom namespaces Ehcache 2.0 Offers Grails Integration & Scaling Without Code Changes | IndicThreads Why doesn’t (JPA, JMS, JTA, EJB, JSF, … Read More
