Best of this Week Summary 22 February - 28 February 2010

• A real life example on using Spring Integration to migrate content from multiple websites into Hippo CMS, handle errors, measure performance and deal with the fact that content could contain references to other content that is not imported yet.
  


• Summary of this article, which suggests rules for designing standard authentication schemes for REST API’s.
  


• Did you know JavaFX is already used on a big site like the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010?
  


• Ten useful Java programming tips, maybe there are a few you don't know yet...
  

Best of this Week Summary 15 February - 21 February 2010

• Expected that Mozilla uses Agile everywhere, and definitely on its flagship Firefox? Think again, only recently they started to combine Agile and more traditional Waterfall as their new development model, dubbed "Lorentz".
  


• Tips for hardening your Tomcat installation. Other implementation guides, not only limited to Tomcat (also for example WebLogic) tips from U.S. DOD DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) can be found here.
  


• Always interesting to at least quickly browse through: a review of the 1993 code of Doom. And more "today": the code of Doom for the iPhone reviewed.
  


• Think you know Javascript? Try one of these quizes!
  

Best of this Week Summary 8 February - 14 February 2010

• Five new features of Spring 3.0 described:
  
  
  • Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
    
  
  
  • Object/XML Mapping (OXM) module
    
  
  
  • Type-conversion system
    
  
  
  • Formatter SPI
    
  
  
  • RESTful web services support
    
  
  What new Ajax simplifications have been introduced can be found here.
  


• The Java EE 6 web tier introduces with Servlet 3.0 spec the ability for asynchronous processing of requests so that the thread may return to the container and perform other tasks. It also "adds annotation based configuration (@WebServlet, @ServletFilter and @WebServletContextListener) making the web.xml file optional, and introduces a new concept of web fragments."
  


• Introductionary article to Apache Click. One difference between Click and Wicket is that Click is stateless by design, while Wicket is stateful. Both can be configured their "opposite" model, though these have their own pros/cons.
  Another main difference is that that Click uses templates (Velocity by default) where Wicket does not.
  
  Sidestep: here's a bunch of nicely designed Wicket sites that scale (note: not really clear where the scalability statements come from).
  


• A 60 minutes presentation on how SOA is a hit at eBay.
  

Best of this Week Summary 1 February - 7 February 2010

• What's new in JSF 2.0 (facelets, composite components, partial state saving and Ajax).
  


• A couple of tips on how to avoid checking for null statements (focused on Java but applicable to any language).
  


• Tips/guidelines on how to use Spring on Google App Engine. Including a list of workarounds. This post has a more detailed step-by-step explanation for Spring 3.0 on GAE with a live example app.
  


• The work setup of several more or less famous technical guys ("nerds").