In this blog entry, I will be demonstrating the development of a simple Model MBean. In a previous blog entry, I demonstrated some key characteristics of the MXBean.

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Luis-Miguel Alventosa announced exciting news: VisualVM 1.0 is now being included in Sun's Java SE 6 implementation as of Update 7. His announcement is available in his blog.

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In my blog entry Project Jersey and Java-Based REST, I used several screen snapshots and some text to illustrate how NetBeans 6.1 can be used with Jersey (the JSR-311/JAX-RS reference implementation) to quickly and easily develop RESTful web services from database tables.

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Project Jersey is the reference implementation of JSR 311 ("The Java API for RESTful Web Services"). The main page states that Jersey is currently available as an "early access" version and cannot transition to 1.0 until the specification it implements (JAX-RS/JSR-311) receives final approval.

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I am using this blog entry to demonstrate by simple example the use of the Spring Framework's HTTP Remoting.

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There have been two major OpenLaszlo announcements in the last two days (yesterday and today) as recorded at http://swik.net/OpenLaszlo. It was announced today that one-half million copies of OpenLaszlo have been downloaded.

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In my article Basic Java Persistence API Best Practices, I wrote that because JPA is the result of good ideas from many previous technologies (Hibernate, JDBC, JDO, etc.), it follows that many of the best practices associated with these inspiring technologies can and should be applied to JPA.

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SpketIDE is a useful IDE for developing OpenLaszlo applications.

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Perhaps the most difficult aspect of getting a freshly written JSR-160 (Remote JMX) compliant application working is ensuring a proper JMXServiceURL.

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In this blog entry, I demonstrate generation of a simple RSS Reader using OpenLaszlo. The world certainly doesn't need another RSS reader, so the purpose of this blog entry is to demonstrate some of the easy-to-use features of OpenLaszlo.

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The June 2008 edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index highlights the fact (in its introductory text) that ActionScript has entered the index's top twenty. This places ActionScript higher on the index than such venerable languages as Fortran and Smalltalk and above trendy languages such as Groovy, Erlang, and Scala.

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I'll demonstrate the tremendous utility of the JMX MXBean in this blog entry.

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Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 17, 2008) is the day in which there will be an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours (downloading of Firefox 3). While it can be fun to be part of such an event, I am looking forward to the many new features of Firefox 3.

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