Tag: java

PDFs for all the JavaOne 2005 sessions are now available online (for free).

Sun usually only release the PDFs on their JavaOneOnline site which is a paid subscription site, but I’ve noticed this site is currently not accepting any subscription renewals as they are reworking it. So download them for free while the link is there!

Spring and EJB3.0 both aim to simplify application component development: Spring has dependencies and characteristics of your classes (transaction support etc) externalized to an XML file, whereas the new EJB3.0 spec annotates the actual source file with markup alongside the actual code.

This article on the OnJava.com website gives a simple comparison between the two approaches.

Ken Arnold writing in his blog on java.net thinks so. Ken believes that the benefits added to the language are not justified for the added complexity.

I must admit having read through some of the tutorials, at face value the concepts do not seem that complicated, but Ken has some examples on his site of some situations that seem pretty complicated to wrap your head around.

Sun are to release a coffee table book written by James Gosling that oulines and describes the history of Java, over the past 10 years. The book will be released in Sept 2005.