Win your dreams beyond stealth mode

I was reading Paul Graham's essay "A Fundraising Survival Guide" in which, he outlines some of the key factors which helps in keeping fund raising dreams for startups beyond stealth mode. I thought of highlighting these techniques in this post simply because they were very concise and demanding. 1. Have low expectations. 2. Keep working … Continue reading Win your dreams beyond stealth mode →

Yahoo Search Restful Client using Jersey

Yahoo Search provides a RESTful interface for web search. Of course this service is been there for a while. I was just curious to use Jersey Client to play around with the Yahoo REST service. It opens up a world of possibilities for building applications around these services in Java. Let us invoke the web … Continue reading Yahoo Search Restful Client using Jersey →

Programming SSL for Jetty based CXF services

It has been a wonderful week with my ramblings with CXF and SSL. But, it all ended up in good mood. Sometimes, it is so hard to find how to use certain features with CXF. I am a great fan of CXF because of its simplicity and intuitive feature set. It provides an array of … Continue reading Programming SSL for Jetty based CXF services →

Independence day Fire Works in Heights, just say Wow!

Fire flies treat for your eyes only. http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPfaR06cWj6OjZNXg0oNtn_huuDxBo5ihY=

JavaOne 2008 presentations are online

For those who missed JavaOne this year, Sun has published the conference slides here a month later. I find these very useful especially for Java geeks as it provides an opportunity to learn some of the technical advancements around the Java platform and the momentum around the technology is healthy. My top contenders this year … Continue reading JavaOne 2008 presentations are online →

Jersey Client API – made for each other

In my earlier blog entry on Jersey, I used HTTPClient API and curl command line utility as the clients. I had not mentioned about the Jersey Client API. It is part of the Jersey distribution. I would prefer using Jersey Client API as it is modeled around the concepts of JAX-RS spec. Let us quickly … Continue reading Jersey Client API – made for each other →

Building RESTful web services using Jersey

Jersey is a JSR 311 reference implementation for the JAX-RS spec (The Java API for RESTful Web Services). The JSR development is nearing its completion, but for most part the RI is stable enough for developers to start playing with RESTful services. JAX-RS is an elegant API built around the powerful REST architecture and modeled … Continue reading Building RESTful web services using Jersey →

ActiveMQ – shifting message brokering market landscape

Message brokering markets were once dominated by heavy weights and required huge investments by enterprises for implementing such solutions. Vendors made huge bucks out of it by selling such solutions and support. Is this still considered a niche market? I personally don't think so. I am definitely not against vendors offering such solutions, but the … Continue reading ActiveMQ – shifting message brokering market landscape →

Effective Java v2 finally ships

Effective Java second edition finally started shipping this week. I dreamed of this day in one of my earlier blog post 🙂 As predicted, it finally made it this year during JavaOne. Even this year, Joshua had a session on "More 'Effective Java'" - third in a row since 2006. The book was published on … Continue reading Effective Java v2 finally ships →

Developing Apache CXF and JPA services in NetBeans 6.1 IDE

Apache CXF is an open services framework. It is more than just a Web Services stack. Its simple, powerful, and promising. Today, the CXF project graduated from incubation as a top-level Apache project. It has made several stable releases since its incubation. I know projects which still prefer to use first generation Axis due to … Continue reading Developing Apache CXF and JPA services in NetBeans 6.1 IDE →