UPDATE (11 October 2008): SpringSource has tweaked the policy described below to a significant enough extent that I believe it the altered new policy will be palatable to the vast majority of developers using the Spring Framework. More information on this is available in SpringSource Regains Footing with Support Change and A Question of Balance: Tuning the Maintenance Policy.

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The OpenLaszlo Incubator includes several useful components such tooltips, rich text editor, and the validators.

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In previous blog entries, I used the JMX Web Services Connector (JSR-262) with JConsole as the client and with WinRM as the client and, in both entries, accessed the JMX Web Services Connector sample provided with

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One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr's On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this article originally published in 1975, Kerr employs descriptive examples to demonstrate how a reward system can often lead to different and even opposite results than intended.

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The Google Comic Book on Google Chrome provides insight into what to expect from the Google Chrome web browser. The AppleInsider article Google Planning New Chrome Browser Based on WebKit is a thorough and useful summary of some of the highlights of this project.

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With the release of VisualVM as a standard part of Sun's JDK distribution since JDK 6 Update 7, it is likely that Java developers will begin using VisualVM in situations in which they previously used the separate tools

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Flex provides a rich, sophisticated set of dynamic charts, but a license fee is required (via purchase of FlexBuilder Professional) to use these Flex charts for most realistic production situa

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One of the things that was most difficult for me to learn when first learning about Remote JMX was the difference between a JMX Connector and a JMX Adapter (also spelled Adaptor in many cases).

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Standard MBeans are commonly used for several reasons.

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Eamonn McManus's blog entry Playing with JMX 2.0 API provided me with the encouragement and advice I needed to try out JMX 2.0's likely annotation implementation.

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In this blog entry, I will briefly cover how to use code folding in NetBeans 6.1 while attempting to make a case for code folding in the correct situations.

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I wrote previous blog entries on the advantages of using Model MBeans and showed examples of using Model MBeans directly, using Model MBeans with the Spring Framework, and using Model MBeans with Apache Commons Modeler.

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You can download a free copy of the PDF version of the book Getting Started with Flex 3 by taking either of two quizzes available at SitePoint. Details regarding the free PDF are available here.

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In this blog entry, I will be looking at using Orson Chart Beans to generate charts in a custom tab added to JConsole.

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In this blog entry, I intend to outline some of the most common criticisms and concerns regarding Flex that I hear or read from other developers. Because Flex necessarily compiles to Flash, any Flash criticisms or disadvantages are also Flex criticisms or disadvantages.

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