Java Open Source Tools Tutorials and Videos
Project Lombok is a recent project that exploits with Java 1.6’s APT (Annotation Processing Tool) API to generate boilerplate code from annotations. This screencast shows how Lombok can be easily used to remove the boilerplate getters and setters from a pojo domain object. http://danhaywood.com/2009/09/13/using-project-lombok-with-naked-objects/
This talk by Ceki Gülcü at Jazoon 2009 presents the SLF4J and logback projects. SLF4J is a logging abstraction gaining wide acceptance in the Java community. Logback is the successor of the log4j project. The logging abstraction problem is presented. SLF4J tackles this problem in a decidedly unsophisticated manner. There …
Event Driven Architecture is a highly scalable approach to distributed computing and integration. Once you put in place an Event Driven Architecture, you can start to process events in interesting ways. Firstly, you can simply use filtering on individual events to find interesting events. Then, you can extend this to …
This screencast shows how to get started using the Maven archetype that comes with Naked Objects 4.0. http://danhaywood.com/2009/08/29/using-the-naked-objects-4-0-maven-archetype/
Restlet is a lightweight REST framework. These screencasts will take you through the installation of Restlet in an Eclipse IDE and the creation of a simple Restlet application. http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/screencast/
OSGi is about to become the predominant standard in Enterprise Java and for good reasons. But like any other new technology introducing it inside existing environments can be challenging. This talk shows the benefits of OSGi in Enterprise Java, the concrete challenges and solutions to them. The focus is on …