The first alpha version of JBoss Tools 3 outThe highlights in this release are: Ganymede/Eclipse 3.4, Graphical Seam pages.xml editor, Hibernate in Dali, Portlet wizards, JBossWS, Eclipse BIRT Hibernate datasource...

Plain old text-only JTable cells are boring, but once you start to mix multiple types of cell renderers in a table, your getTableCellRendererComponent() method can get completely out of control. In this article, Michael Bar-Sinai offers a performant and clever alternative that looks up the needed renderer with class-based and rule-based maps.

Learn how to create a PHP web application that incorporates jMaki widgets, communicates with a MySQL database, and runs in the OpenSolaris OS.

Joshua Partogi offers his thoughts on the improvements in usability in Tapestry 5 over the previous version.

A look at the current java open source toolsets to help implement a Service Oriented Architecture. This book provides good code samples as well.