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Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 3: Customizing a Wizard Publish Date: Jul. 27, 2005
Emmanuel Proulx's series on Eclipse plugin development continues by showing how to put together a useful data model and a wizard GUI.
Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 2: Simple GUI Elements Publish Date: Mar. 30, 2005
Eclipse is largely composed of plugins, but you can't just write any arbitrary code and have Eclipse magically incorporate it. In part two of his series on Eclipse, Emmanuel Proulx introduces Eclipse's "extension points" by showing how to create toolbar buttons, menu items, and dialogs.
Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 1: A First Glimpse Publish Date: Feb. 9, 2005
Many developers use Eclipse out of the box as an IDE, never investigating its powerful extensibility. But as Emmanuel Proulx shows in this first installment of a new series, Eclipse's modular system of plugins allow you to customize it to your suit your development needs.
EJB Free and Open Source Tools Summary Publish Date: Feb. 26, 2003
What's the best platform for J2EE development? Emmanuel Proulx finds himself answering that question time after time. In this article, he explores several free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer EJB 2.0 tools and gives his suggestions for choosing an application server.
EJB Inheritance, Part 4 Publish Date: Jan. 29, 2003
This series has demonstrated all sorts of ways to handle inheritance in beans. With web and message services, though, how do you handle inheritance with remotely-invoked beans? The EJB 2.0 specification allows it; Emmanuel Proulx demonstrates how.
EJB Inheritance, Part 3 Publish Date: Nov. 13, 2002
Session beans can take advantage of inheritance, just like entity beans. Indeed, implementing session bean inheritance is nowhere near as hard as it is with entity beans. Part 3 of this series shows the proper technique for implementing inheritance in session beans and addresses the use of factories.
EJB Inheritance, Part 2 Publish Date: Sep. 25, 2002
Part two of this series on inheritance with Entity Java Beans focuses on the various options for table mapping.
EJB Inheritance, Part 1 Publish Date: Sep. 4, 2002
The principles of object-oriented programming are encapsulation and inheritance. Enterprise JavaBeans handle encapsulation just fine, but what about inheritance? In this article, the author attempts to apply inheritance to EJBs.
What's New in EJB 2.1? Publish Date: Aug. 14, 2002
The draft spec for EJB 2.1 is out, and it includes enhancements to message-driven beans, the query language, and support for Web services.
