Busy blogger and Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond shows you "how you can publish events from Java and OSB."

The new release of Drools Expert (rule engine), Drools Fusion (complex event processing), Drools Planner (planning optimization) and Guvnor (BRMS web application) are now available.

Windows Authentication with Apache Tomcat 7

Business Intelligence vendor Pentaho has announced the release of olap4j 1.0, a new, common Java API for any online analytical processing (OLAP) server. By Charles Humble and Jai Hirsch

There has been a lot of discussion lately about "cloud" offerings and what is the cloud. I am going to avoid a definition of the cloud, but I am going to talk about the various infrastructure offerings that are available, specifically the differences between two types of offerings. James Sugrue

This morning, I attended Ed Burn's Talk on Hyperproductive JSF 2.0 at Jazoon. As you might know, I've been a critic of JSF for many years. However, it is one of the most used Java web frameworks, so I was hoping to learn how it's improved in the latest version. Below are my notes from Ed's presentation. Ed's Plan for our Time Investment: James Sugrue ...

One of the biggest promises java EE6 made, was to ease the use of dependency injection. They did, using CDI. CDI, which stands for Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE, offers a base set to apply dependency injection in your enterprise application. Before CDI, EJB 3 also introduced dependency injection, but this was a bit basic. You could inject an EJB (statefull or stateless) into...