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Review of Mac OS X for Java Geeks (O'Reilly) - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I've just reviewed this book for JavaRanch and I only wish I had found it sooner!
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/336

Professional JSP, 3rd Edition (Apress) to be released soon - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Professional JSP, 3rd Edition is nearing completion and covers lots of the new JSP 2.0 features that will make building JSP-based web applications much easier.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/326

XDoclet in the J2EE web tier - (Found July 2, 2008 )

It's common that you'll find somebody using XDoclet to help build their EJBs, but how often do you find people using it to help with the J2EE web tier
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/566

London Java Meetup gaining momentum - (Found July 2, 2008 )

If you work around London and fancy meeting some other like-minded techies, feel free to pop along to the next London Java Meetup.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/579

Panther ships with Ant, XDoclet and JBoss - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I've just upgraded my Mac OS X installation from Jaguar to Panther and was surprised to see some open source Java tools included in the distribution.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/610

Message acknowledgment and redelivery with message-driven beans - (Found July 2, 2008 )

After diving into the message-driven bean section of the EJB 2.0 specification, all is not what it seems with regard to message redelivery.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1393

Global setUp() and tearDown() in JUnit tests - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Like many people, I want a way to run some one-time set up and tear down logic and the approach I usually take is to drop some code into a static initializer block in an abstract test case.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1208

TagUnit and code coverage with Clover - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Code coverage inside a J2EE container is easy with Clover.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1144

Displaying international characters in JSP - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I've been having lots of "fun" over the past days trying to figure out how to get JSP pages to properly display international characters ... now it seems to be working.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1078

JSIG session : Java Development on Mac OS X - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Sam Dalton and I are running a JSIG session about Java development on Mac OS X next month...
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1038