Tonight we are having our monthly Puget Sound IASA meeting on the topic of “Managing Investment Across the Project Life Cycle”. Here is the abstract for tonight‘s meeting:
Scott Came, Monica Yap, and Tamara Sulaiman will be conducting a panel discussion about managing investment in projects from conception to delivery. Scott will discuss how enterprise [...]
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The Maven Jini plug-in has been released. Installation instructions may be found at http://maven-jini-plugin.jini.org/. The 1.0 release allows a user to:
Generate a Jini service project by running the “jini:genapp” goal
Starting/Stopping of Jini starter kit services: Reggie, Mahalo, Phoenix, Fiddler, Norm, Mercury, Outrigger, Browser, and HTTP daemon
Configurable RMI runtime using either JRMP, JERI, or [...]
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I spent the last weekend attending the best conference in the land, No Fluff Just Stuff. If you haven‘t been to this Friday-Sunday event, go to it when it‘s in your town. There are no vendors to derail you into web services or ESB. Just good ol‘ software development tools, howtos, and [...]
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I am currently working on a project which allows me to get down and dirty with J2ME on multiple devices. My main focus has been on the Nokia Communicator 9500 which has a flip-up application screen and a full keyboard.
I ran into a huge issue using the new JSR 75 – PIM and file [...]
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Lately, I have been in many discussions regarding best practices and patterns. The discussions started out with an attempt at defining “what is a ‘best practice‘?“. While speaking about the relevance of a “best practice”, I saw this blog entry from Ted Neward which asserted there is no such thing as a best [...]
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I am working on a personal project right now where I am developing Jini-aware services. Working with a “true” SOA is quite nice once you have the mindset. There are a few areas of Jini development which still cause me some grief though:
Jini starter kit distribution- the lack of base service startup scripts [...]
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