Tag Archives: Java
JavaScript for Java developers
Java developers have historically perceived JavaScript as a toy language, both too lightweight for real programming and too clunky to be of use as a scripting alternative. And yet JavaScript is still around, and it’s the basis of exciting web … read more
Java EE testing with Arquillian
I recently caught up with my old friend, Dan Allen, who is a Red Hat principal software engineer and open source evangelist. In this podcast, he explains how Arquillian eases integration testing by providing a test harness to abstract away … read more
Rapid Android development with JRuby
A few interesting pieces of data: 70% of the world’s population has a mobile phone over a million Android devices are activated weekly 1/2 of all local searches are done on a mobile device over 90% of mobile Internet access … read more
The case for Node.js
Not too long ago, I wrote about JavaScript; specifically, I espoused it as a language worthy of a Java developers attention mainly due to the fact that JavaScript, while about as old as Java, is arguably the more popular language. … read more
Ultra-lightweight Java web services with Gretty
Gretty is one of a new school of ultra-lightweight frameworks made for building web services. Built on top of the blazingly fast Java NIO APIs, Gretty leverages Groovy as a domain-specific language for web endpoints and Grape’s Maven-style dependency management. … read more
