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Enterprise Tech Tip: Securing Attachments With Metro 1.3

Over the past year, I've posted a number of Tech Tips related to Metro, the high performance, extensible, easy-to-use web services stack that is implemented in the GlassFish application server. These tips have been written by members of the Web Services Security group at Sun Microsystems. I just posted another Metro-related tip. This one, written by Web Services Security group member Ashutosh Shahi, shows you how to secure a SOAP Messages with Attachments (SwA) attachment.

See the Tech Tip Securing Attachments With Metro 1.3.

Posted at 04:20PM Sep 29, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[0]

Ask the Experts: OpenSSO, Sept. 29-Oct. 3

Got a question about OpenSSO, Sun's open-source project for access management, identity federation, and web services? Post it on the Ask the Experts page during the week of Sept. 29 and get answers from four key members of Sun's access and federation management team: Rajeev Angal, Aravindan Ranganathan, Dilli Dorai, and Qingwen Cheng.

Posted at 05:03PM Sep 22, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[0]

Ask the Experts: JavaFX Preview, Aug. 18-22

The JavaFX family of products includes the tools and platform SDK for developers, web scripters, and designers to create dynamic applications for the next generation of web delivered content. Sun recently released a JavaFX Preview designed to help early adopters become familiar with JavaFX. Got a question about the JavaFX Preview? Post it on the Ask the Experts page from August 18 through August 22 and get answers from three key members of Sun's JavaFX engineering team: Josh Marinacci, Martin Brehovsky, and Larry McDonough.

Posted at 04:54PM Aug 06, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[0]

Enterprise Tech Tip: Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API

With the addition of support for scripting languages in the Java platform, there has been a lot of interest in combining into web applications scripting languages such as Groovy, Java technologies such as the Java Persistence API (JPA), and databases such as MySQL. Read the tip Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API and learn how to create an online catalog application using the Groovy language, the Grails framework, the MySQL database, the Java Persistence API, and the GlassFish application server. You'll also learn about the latest NetBeans IDE offering, NetBeans IDE 6.5 Milestone 1 (or M1 for short), which offers many new features including support for Groovy and Grails.

Posted at 01:27PM Jul 31, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[0]

JavaFX Learning Curve Journal Updates

In August and September 2007, the Sun Developer Network staff started a Learning Curve Journal, a series designed to help users get started with the JavaFX Script programming language (shortened to JavaFX Script hereafter). A number of significant advances have been made to the language since then. Perhaps most important is the availability of a compiler-based version of JavaFX Script, which replaces the earlier interpreter-based version of the language. The Learning Curve Journal described the use of the interpreter-based version of the language. The Learning Curve Journal has been updated to show you how to use the compiler-based version of the language. Other changes have been made to make the articles current.

Part 1: Exploring JavaFX Script gets you started with a simple JavaFX program, that is, a simple program written in the JavaFX Script language. You'll learn how to set up your environment for programming in JavaFX Script and how to build and run a JavaFX program.

Part 2: Declarative User Interfaces focuses on the declarative style of coding enabled by JavaFX Script. You'll see how this style can make the code for a graphical application simpler and more intuitive.

Part 3: JavaFX Script Functions shows you how to use JavaFX Script functions to implement actions in a Java FX program.

Part 4: Accessing a Web Service demonstrates how to use JavaFX Script to access a web service. In doing that, it also shows how easy it is to access Java technology classes, such as Swing classes, from JavaFX Script.

Posted at 10:44AM Jul 31, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[2]

Ask the Experts Transcript: Java SE 6 Update 10

Check out the transcript of the Ask the Experts session on Java SE 6 Update 10 that was held the week of July 7, 2008. Danny Coward, Java SE 6 Platform Lead; Ken Russell, Java Plug-In Lead; and Richard Bair, SwingLabs Lead, answered a wide variety questions, covering topics such as a Java Plugin for Mac OSX, Nimbus skins for components, the JKernel, and making a Java app download smaller.

Posted at 09:31AM Jul 12, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[0]

Ask the Experts: Java SE 6 Update 10 Beta

Java SE 6 Update 10, currently available as a beta release, introduces many new features and enhancements that dramatically improve the developer and user experience. Some of the significant improvements in Java SE 6 result in faster and easier deployment of Java applications and applets, better performance, and an improved look and feel. Got a question about Java SE 6 Update 10? Post it during this session on the Sun Developer Network Ask the Experts page and get answers from three key members of Sun's Java SE Platform team: Danny Coward, Java SE 6 Platform Lead; Ken Russell, Java Plug-In Lead; and Richard Bair, SwingLabs Lead.

Posted at 03:43PM Jun 30, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[2]

Ask the Experts: Developing and Deploying Java SE-Based Applications in Solaris (Jan. 21-25)

Got a questions about developing or deploying Java SE applications in the Solaris Operating System? Get answers from experts in this session.[Read More]

Posted at 09:43AM Jan 16, 2008 by edort in Ask the Experts  |  Comments[0]