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My Talk about SOA Trends for 2008

September 16, 2008
Last week I was invited by InterConsult Bulgaria (ICB) as speaker at their 6-th annual software engineering conference in 12-13 September in Pomorie. My talk was about the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) trends in 2008: SOA and Web 2.0 SOA in Internet (Web-Oriented Architecture) SOA in the enterprises SOA adoption Virtualization and computing clouds Download
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Extract All Classes Loaded in the JVM into a Single JAR

August 27, 2008
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,
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BGJUG Meeting – Java FX (28 August 2008)

August 25, 2008
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.
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JSObject is not Thread-Safe

August 24, 2008
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
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Debugging Java Applets in Eclipse

August 20, 2008
Today I needed to debug Java applet running in Internet Explorer from Eclipse. I was not straightforward. Let me share the experience how to do this: 1) First enable remote debugging in the Java Plugin: a) Start –> Settings –> Control Panel –> Java –> Java Applet Runtime Settings –> View b) Add the following
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Reading File Contents in Firefox 3 and Other Browsers

August 19, 2008
In the last few weeks I work on a project about digitally signing Web forms. I need to develop a Java applet that signs Web forms (all form fields along with the attachments). The way we want to implement this is to use signed applet (running in the client Web browsers without any security restrictions)
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Accessing Microsoft CRM from .NET Application

July 31, 2008
Today a customer of mine requested to integrate our ASP.NET based Web application with Microsoft CRM 3.0. Initially I thought this will be a simple task but few hours later I found that this is not straightforward. Accessing MS CRM 3.0 from .NET The best way to access MS CRM 3.0 from .NET application is
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Open Source Book “Introduction to Programming with Java”

July 25, 2008
Last week I started a project to create a new book for sofwate engineers: “Introduction to Programming with Java”. The book will focus on the fundamentals of computer programming rather than on the Java language. This is not a book about Java. This is a book about the concepts of computer programming. It is intended