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In today’s day and age, I’m not aware of any good reason why we (the services) should be transmitting user credentials (namely their [...]

I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it at JavaOne 2008 titled ‘Automated Heap Dump Analysis for Developers, Testers, and Support Employees‘ (multimedia recording).

The Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer [...]

For the past couple of days I’ve been attending the caBIG Annual Meeting (it’s the 5th such meeting and by all accounts the most well attended).
About caBIG

caBIG™ stands for the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™. caBIG™ is an information network enabling all constituencies in the cancer community – researchers, physicians, and patients – to share data [...]

We recently finished migrating our product from Java5 to Java6. The software migration itself went quite smoothly with only a couple unanticipated problems.
However we do have a number of developers on MacBook Pro’s (myself included) that began having problems with other Java-based applications after making Java6 their default JVM.
One such problem was with the popular [...]

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing a bit of early development work with Seam, it’s been fun but not without annoyance.
The project is green field which in one respect is quite nice because of the freedom it presents with regards to technology and architecture choices, but on the flip side you’ve actually [...]