Richard Monson-Haefel, known to many for being involved in many Java JSR projects (including EJB3.0) has taken a new analyst job which means he has to have a neutral view on technology, and as a result has cut his involvement with the Java world.
JBoss to announce Sun J2EE certification on JBoss App Server 4.0
JBoss have finally managed to work with Sun and gain certification on the latest release of their app server, JBoss Application Server 4.0.
Sun launch ‘Java-Powered’ logo promotion
Sun have started a ‘Java-powered’ logo advertising promotion that was launched this month at JavaOne.
The promotion aims to include a Java logo on devices that include a Java JVM inside, which already includes millions of cell phones shipped world-wide. Sun has the opportunity to cash in on the success of J2ME shipped with mobile phones if they can pitch this right – Java is already out there in the consumer market, the tough part now is increasing consumer awareness to cash in on the popularity.
Resolving Classloader issues
O’Reilly have a good article on their OnJava.com site on resolving classloader issues – they cover both the more simple ClassNotFoundException, as well as the more confusing NoClassDefFoundError.
I don’t think I had come across NoClassDefFoundError in 8 years of working with Java, until the last year where I have been developing with IBM’s Websphere Studio Application Developer. It works with your projects as WAR, JAR and EAR files expanded to your filesystem anduns them like this within it’s Websphere test server environment. If you don’t have the correct JAR dependencies set between projects then you are guaranteed to see some NoClassDefFoundErrors…