Test Driving Swing Applications

I’ve done my fare share of developing Swing apps in my java years. Perhaps 40% of UI development in my 8 years of java experience is done in Swing. Now that’s a quite a big percentage these days, when most of my colleagues have never done any Swing and their UI development is mostly done [...]

Wicket experiences

I decided to take a look at the Wicket web-framework for Java. It looks very promising and simple, if familiar with component oriented programming. Earlier I had done some Struts 1.x and plain old Servlets, and boy does this really look like something else. As the first “real” project I started to build my [...]

To be Groovy, Ruby or perhaps a Python?

It’s autumn again (at least here in Finland), and a perfect time to do something useful on those dark evenings. What wouldn’t be better, than to learn a new programming language. I count C# and other .NET-stuff right out of the list, because I’m currently knees deep in the Java-camp and I thought [...]

JXPath – XPath for JavaBeans

Last march JavaWorld had an tutorial article of JXPath, an object query language for querying object graphs. Basically, it is an XPath-implementation, except it operates on Java object graphs, not XML-documents. In the following there is the example from the project site, which is quite self-explanatory.

Address address = (Address)JXPathContext.newContext(vendor).
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Microsoft to educate 1000 IT-professionals in Finland – Is Java losing momentum?

After the infamous IT-bubble “exploded”, one could read from the news that some IT-manufacturer, Telecom, or other IT-firm started to kick out people from their rosters. What happened in Finland (as in other countries) after this, was that the number of applicants to IT-curriculum’s went down, and at the moment some of our tech. [...]