Chris Degiere and Associates

I’m excited about the cloud computing related content that was presented at JavaOne this year.

Sun announced a partnership with Amazon to offer OpenSolaris as an operating system choice on their Amazon EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) offering.

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I just wrapped up JavaOne this year, but I flew in too late to catch the second annual CommunityOne Conference on Monday, which is more or less a free one day version of the JavaOne conference.

You can attend general session talks, panels, and technical sessions just like JavaOne but for free!

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If you have any experience with Quicksilver and use Eclipse then you’ll love the Quick Access feature (ctrl+3) new to Europa. Thanks to my colleague Jon for pointing this out some time ago.

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I’ve been reading this book: Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) which uses Glassfish as it’s primary JEE application server.

Here’s a quick setup tutorial for using Glassfish with Eclipse and developing EJB3:

http://www.webagesolutions.com/knowledgebase/javakb/jkb005/index.html

If you’re using Jboss, here’s a recommended starter project for eclipse:
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=StarterSkeletonEclipseProject

Too busy coding to update the blog so here’s some news: Spring Framework 2.5 Released!

A much welcome new version with some great new additions from the Spring Team. I’m excited to try out the new testing framework and annotation based configuration!