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Compass, a Java Search Engine Framework built on top of Lucene aimed at simplifying the integration of google like search capabilities into applications has released version 2.1.

Ajax allows us to build Web 2.0 applications with ease. However, it also raises a number of questions. One such very pertinent question is regarding user authentication. User authentication simply means checking the authenticity of the user, How should...

AJAX and Comet just easier. The open source HTML 5 WebSocket server, Kaazing Gateway, celebrates its first release and provides the worlds first enterprise ready implementation of the HTML 5 WebSocket specification--a simplified, standards based alternative to AJAX and Comet that provides full-duplex communication over a single socket connection.

By applying the Intercepting Filter and Strategy design patterns, this framework allows applications to intercept JNDI operations and invocations to allow for pre/post processing in a very decoupled, modular and adaptable manner.