I was pleased to hear earlier this week that my abstracts for two presentations at Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days 2009 were accepted. I will be presenting "REST from Web Services Frustrations" and "Bringing Web to the Desktop with Adobe AIR" at this annual RMOUG event.

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In an earlier blog entry, I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document.

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From time to time, I find myself needing to handle command-line arguments in Java either for Java-based applications or for main() function implementations that provide a simple testing mechanism directly within the class being tested. The Java developer has many choices for command-line parsing.

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I generally appreciate the extra type checking provided by Java Generics. There is no doubt they improve my code's readability and maintainability while also improving my code's runtime robustness. However, one thing that I have observed is that there can still be some room for improvement in code that makes use of generics.

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I received my copy of the post-conference CD-ROM for the Colorado Software Summit 2008 yesterday morning (Friday, November 7). This 670MB resource contains the latest versions of speakers' slides that include changes made during the conference in response to participants' feedback. For example, I added several slides to my presentations based on feedback and even included some slides specifically calling out the questions asked with answers.

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Several polls on java.net have interested me and the results of some of them have even surprised me. While these are not scientific polls and they could certainly be rigged by someone wanting to drive them to a certain suggestion, I don't think there are many developers interested in doing so. The comments can also be interesting.

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The blog entry Accessibility in Adobe Flex was recently featured on DZone and reminded me of another question I was asked by an attendee of one of my three presentations of Applying Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo at Colorado Software Summit 2008.

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I have found the humble Java toString() to be one of the most useful and powerful techniques in debugging and troubleshooting Java applications. That is only true, unfortunately, when and if the developers on the team override the Object.toString() method to provide useful details.

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One of the questions that I was asked at Colorado Software Summit 2008 after one of my three presentations of Applying Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo was if there is a way to print the contents of a DataGrid.

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In a previous blog entry, I discussed some of the reasons I love attending the Colorado Software Summit. While I personally really like this conference, it is interesting but not surprising to see the numerous "big names" in the industry who have called this their favorite conference. Below are some snippets from others that describe some of their individual reasons for liking this conference so much.

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The purpose of this blog entry is to show an extremely simple of example of "logging" entry into and exit from methods using the Spring Framework and AspectJ. The example is so simple that I won't actually use log4j or java.util.logging for the actual logging, although they could be easily added.

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More than one attendee at the Colorado Software Symposium 2008 who attended my presentation Apply Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo asked how to allow two different Flash applications (.swf) files in the same web browser communicate with one another.

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Today (Friday, October 24, 2008) was the final day of Colorado Software Summit 2008. As usual, the last day is really half a day with two morning presentations before lunch. My last presentation was in the first slot and I spoke on Java Management Extensions (JMX) Circa 2008 for the third and final time at this conference.

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Today (Thursday, 23 October 2008) was the fourth day of presentations at Colorado Software Summit 2008. As usual, I find myself feeling like there is very little room left to cram any more information into my brain and process it coherently. As with all my summaries of Colorado Software Summit presentations, it is important to note that any errors are probably a result of my misunderstanding or misinterpretation of what was stated.

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Today (Wednesday, 22 October 2008) was the third day of presentations at the Colorado Software Summit 2008. It had started snowing last night and there was snow on the roads this morning. It seemed to snow most of the day, though it had melted during the warm afternoon. However, the snow started sticking again as the weather cooled off. Today was the day of the conference in which I was scheduled to present each of my two presentations.

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