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An important requirement in a lot of applications is reporting. It can be internal reports (same application jsp/html) or to an external format like xls,pdf or xml etc. A popular reporting engine is JasperReports. In the past few months I have seen a common posting theme in Spring Community Forums (even asking me via email) related about integration between JasperReports with Spring Web MVC and...

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship written by Robert C. Martin is one of the best books I have read in the past few years. This is the book for developers looking to produce better code.

Interview with Erich Gamma and Tim Francis of IBM

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Erich Gamma
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
  

• Tim Francis
• http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/people/person.php?name=francis
  

• Design Patterns - the Gang of Four
• http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Object-Oriented-
  Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633612
  

• Rational Unified Process
• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rup/
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Unified_Process
  

• Agile Development
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRUM
  

• Eclipse.org
• http://www.eclipse.org/
  

• IBM WebSphere
• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/
  

• IBM RAD for WebSphere
• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application/
  

• IBM JVM and J9
  
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_J9
  

• Apache Geronimo
• http://geronimo.apache.org/
  

• IBM WebSphere Community Edition
• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/community/
  

• Jazz Community Site
  
• https://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp
  

• Mylyn
• http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/
  

• Jazz Technology Platform
• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/jazz/roadmap/
  
• http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rtc/
  

• Rational Team Concert Versions and Pricing
• http://www-142.ibm.com/software/dre/hmc/
  compare.wss?HMC02=Q312982B67194Y87
  

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• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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I'm pleased to announce that GraphicsBuilder 0.6.1 has been released [Download. This release includes minor updates to the code but one important, compatibility-breaking issue: Groovy 1.6+ is the mini...

This week we explore Grails Testing support. poll by twiigs.com

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The latest version of the JSecurity plugin is now available. Find out what's changed in the release notes.

How to develop GWT applications without RPC code using the UniversalClient API.

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Groovy's Grape looks wicked cool, but I didn't have much luck getting it going. Anyone else have success?

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El equipo de desarrollo de Groovy sigue ocupado con el desarrollo de la versión 1.6 del lenguaje, sin descuidar las versiones de mantenimiento de la rama estable, la 1.5. Por eso acaban de publ...

Hype spun by the marketing team, or a legitimate report? "Application Server 2008 Rankings" Read the report and the follow-up commentary from Rich Sharples, JBoss AS product manager.

Just yesterday I received the book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware" by Andy Hunt. I browsed through the TOC, read the introduction and started the second chapter "Journey from Novice to Expert". Even though it was quite late in the night, I just couldn't put the book down until I finished this chapter.

Just yesterday I received the book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware" by Andy Hunt. I browsed through the TOC, read the introduction and started the second chapter "Journey from Novice to Expert". Even though it was quite late in the night, I just couldn't put the book down until I finished this chapter.

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team and G2One announce the joint release of both Groovy 1.5.7 -- current stable and maintenance branch -- and Groovy 1.6-beta-2 -- the upcoming...

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team and G2One announce the joint release of both Groovy 1.5.7 -- current stable and maintenance branch -- and Groovy 1.6-beta-2 -- the upcoming...

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team and G2One announce the joint release of both Groovy 1.5.7 -- current stable and maintenance branch -- and Groovy 1.6-beta-2 -- the upcoming major release. ??

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team and G2One announce the joint release of both Groovy 1.5.7 -- current stable and maintenance branch -- and Groovy 1.6-beta-2 -- the upcoming major release.