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Fri - August 31, 2007

Using the Yahoo! Mail SOAP API 1.1 from Java's JAX-WS 2.1

On YDN they have samples and documentation on how to use the Yahoo! Mail SOAP API from Axis2. I'm not a big fan of that method so I went ahead and used JAX-WS to do my dirty work. As an example, I will build an RSS feed of the users unread messages.

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Sat - March 17, 2007

Java Performance Optimization

Last night I decided to revive my poker hand evaluator library and look at it from a performance perspective and do some optimizations if need be. Some of my findings give insight into what kinds of things are optimized in JDK 1.6 vs JDK 1.5 and how things vary between Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

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Sun - April 30, 2006

Simple and efficient XML parsing using JAXB 2.0

My new default workflow for parsing an XML document type takes about 5 minutes to go from seeing the new document to generating a parser that can efficiently parse it with JAXB 2.0 at its base.

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Mon - December 26, 2005

Java annotations + AspectJ5 version of the command line parser

Dion Almaer had an interesting comment where he asked about marrying AspectJ5 to this to get rid of the ugly reflection stuff. I was hesitant at first because there isn't really good support in AspectJ to do stuff like this but I eventually figured out a way to do it.

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Sat - December 24, 2005

Java annotations make declarative programming easy

Someone on java.net just recently had some terrible XML format for command line arguments and someone suggested in the comments that maybe they should be using annotations instead. This is a really good application for them actually...

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Tue - November 8, 2005

Response to Ted Neward's - Anonymous Generic Methods making things "just work"

I saw Ted Neward's message and answered the call. I think this is what he wants, but who knows, I don't really care for C#. But it took 10 minutes in IntelliJ to cook up what I think is the equivalent in Java code.

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Mon - August 8, 2005

AOP in the VM

JRockit now has AOP in the JVM. As I said at ASOD and since AOP appeared (hope you're reading this Gregor), this is the way to do it.

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Sun - July 10, 2005

What should a domain specific language workbench look like?

I just got done looking at the Hello, world! tutorial of JetBrains MPS. It shows in disgusting detail how incredibly ridiculous this tool is. Not since JINI's Hello, world! tutorial have I seen something that is such an anti-advertisement for a product.

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Wed - July 6, 2005

Terracotta Virtualization Server released

I went and downloaded their release today to try it out.

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Fri - May 6, 2005

Writing a web-based poker game in Java

In this entry I'm going to decompose an application I have written using Java 5, JSP 2.0, and a little bit of Hibernate. I'll try and track all the work done including the changes as I went along by using my trusty source control system.

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Wed - April 6, 2005

Groovy JSR-1 released

Groovy JSR-1 has finally been released with the new grammar. Though there are a bunch of things I still don't like about it, I still use it because it is the best thing going right now for Java scripting.

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