In this excerpt from Maven A Developer s Notebook authors Vincent Massol and Timothy M. O Brien show you how to install and start working with Maven the do-it-all Java project builder manager....

Debugging a server-side application You probably don t want to dig through the log files and wonder what happened. Instead you can run your server application in debug mode and attach to it with Eclipse bringing the IDE s powerful debugger to bear on the remote application....

Vincent Massol offers some real-life experience building J2EE applications with Maven. Using the example of a Petstore app Massol shows you how to generate J2EE artifacts EJB JARs WARs EARs with Maven. He is coauthor of Maven A Developer s Notebook....

The 2005 ONJava Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping us understand what you use what you re interested in and where you think Java is going....

The Portlet API establishes a standard for building a web page out of smaller constituent parts all managed by a portlet container to create a portal page. In this introduction Sunil Patil shows how to create a basic Hello World portlet and deploy it in the Apache Pluto portal server....

Hibernate is a free open source Java package that makes it easy to work with relational databases. James Elliott describes the enlightened laziness that resulted in the development of Hibernate how it works and when it makes good sense to use it in your projects. James is the author of Hibernate A Developer s Notebook....

We asked who you are and what you re doing and 988 people replied in just 12 days. In this first article of a two-part series we reveal the results of the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey....

Java programmers if you ve ever needed an application to perform a task at a specific time automatically Chuck Cavaness suggests you check out the Quartz Scheduler. Cavaness looks at this open source job-scheduling framework explains where to get it how it works and reviews its feature set....

Is there anything else you d like to tell our Java editors Well 226 people responding to the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey did. In this article we show what they said and discuss what we re doing with the site....

The Eclipse Web Tools Platform WTP project aims to make web application development easier by attacking the problem from the tool side providing Eclipse-based tools for creating and manipulating EJBs optionally exposed as web services data stores and JSPs. Committers Jeffrey Liu and Lawrence Mandel introduce this new toolset....

In this first of a two-part series excerpted from Spring A Developer s Notebook authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland help you understand how you can use Spring to produce clean effective applications. In part 1 they take a simple application and show you how to automate it and enable it for Spring....

Determining what s gone wrong with your software--source or binary--in a remote location is no simple task. Before taking a call and walking the user through error-prone troubleshooting why not collect information about the user s system and the application files Koen Vervloesem shows how you can do this with Ant....

In part one of this two-part excerpt from Spring A Developer s Notebook authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland showed you how to automate a simple application and enable it for Spring. Today the authors will cover how to use Spring to help you develop a simple clean web-based user interface....

Bruce Tate has a knack for identifying successful technologies. He was one of the early developers who identified the emergence of the Spring framework; he predicted the demise of EJB 2 technologies a full year before the EJB 3 expert group abandoned the older approaches. In his new book Beyond Java Bruce looks at four languages and technologies...

Grid computing allows you to combine processing storage databases and other resources across a network hiding the details from callers. As Birali Hakizumwami shows the Globus Toolkit makes this easier by exposing the grid as a normal web service....