All Java and Java EE developers are invited to the unique for the Balkans and Eastern Europe conference on Java technologies called Java2Days. At the conference distinguished speakers will talk in Sofia about Java, Java EE 6, JBoss, EJB 3.1, Spring Framework, JPA, OSGi, GWT, JSF, jBPM, Wicket, JRockit, cloud computing and other hot technologies.
By design when we open an SSL connection in Java (e.g. through java.net.URL.openConnection(“https://….”)) the JSSE implementation of the SSL protocol performs few validations to ensure the requested host is not fake. This involves validation of the server’s X.509 certificate with the PKIX algorithm and checking the host name agains the certificate subject. If the SSL
In a recent Java project I needed to develop and provide to external clients a RESTful Web Services interface to an internal system. After some research I found that using JAX-RS and its open-source implementation Jersey with Spring and Hibernate as back-end will be great technologies stack for this project. Seems easy but unfortunately I
Recently my team of 20 authors and few editors working on creating a contemporary book about the fundamentals of computer programming, data structures and algorithms is ready with the public official release of the book: http://introjavabook.googlecode.com/files/Introduction-to-Programing-with-Java-Book-v1.01.pdf. The book “Introduction to Programming with Java” focuses on the fundamentals of computer programming, logical, algorithmical thinking, problem solving,
I use SWING for long time but I am amazed how slowly this GUI framework evolve and how far is it comparing to Windows Forms, WPF and Flex. One of the small missing things in Swing is that there is not standard way to display an error message with Exception stacktrace. So I created such
Today I needed to optimize the file size for a commercial Java applet (Web form signer) that my team is developing in the last month. We use few external libraries (Bouncy Castle Crypto API and few others) and these libraries are above 2 MB in several JAR files. If we were developing server side application,
The next meeting of the Bulgarian Java Users Group (BGJUG) will be held on 28 August 2008 in the Chemistry Faculty, Hall 210 in Sofia, starting at 18:30. The topicwill be the Java FX technology. Speaker will be Naiden Gochev.
In one of my last projects I was working on Java applet that needed to digitally sign data forms at the client side in a Web browser. I with my team developed the applet and it did the job well. Unfortunately our customer decided to put multiple instances of the applet in a single Web
