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Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java. Here’s a collection of links into the Red5 site:

Main:

http://osflash.org/red5

Download:

http://www.osflash.org/red5/red5downloads

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There’s a great article over at the server side about Spring as the new Java EE.

I favored Spring and Hibernate over the more widely sanctioned Struts and EJB combo a long time ago. It’s always nice to see I’m not the only one embracing change and the article covers nicely similar transitions in the Java conference space.

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I let OS X handle downloading and installing the latest JDK via System Preferences -> Software Update. Some Java software require that JAVA_HOME be explicitly set, so where should it point?

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I was a hard core emacs user for a long time, then a pretty devout Eclipse user. Recently, taking the MyEclipse plunge has been worth every cent of the subscription fee. The handiest tool so far has been the Database Explorer (think: MySQL query browser, Toad, pgAdmin) and the Hibernate Reverse Engineering tool. See this video of both in action.

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I love the Spring Framework. It’s pretty much changed my enterprise Java development. I’ve also ditched Struts for Spring MVC to keep my technology stack simple.

A new project calls for Ajax enabled pages so I’ve been researching AJAX integration with Spring MVC.

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