JSR 168 defined the contract between applications to be developed using portlet technology and the portal servers. But this technology somehow lagged behind in evolution and continued to exist with many challenges. During application technology stack selection, one comes across portal server options many times. Sometimes we have to choose between application server and portal server itself. In this case you have few requirements which are pointing towards use of portal server, but it may be the case that you are not sure whether really there is a need of …

Eclipse’s more powerful yearly release is just around the corner. Called Galileo, this release brings many features which will ease our life while developing Java applications. Java IDE is always there, in addition to this IDE there are tools for JEE, JSF and Mylyn. Scheduled to get released on 24th of June 2009, RC2 version is available for testing. Complete feature list is available here . Here is abstract of features.

Improved tabbing – when a file is opened in a tab, and that file itself requires multiple tabs. If you …

If we look at the way Java open source technologies are advancing around plain old Java objects, we can definitely say that this is an era of POJOs. Now, you may be feeling that writing functionality in simple objects is enough to build a complex application, where rest of the supporting services can be provided externally. Spring has be the front runner in building technology around POJOs. But Sun’s recent releases of SDK and JEE are focusing on the same principle. EJB is not left out from Sun’s this focus, …