How to profit from the new Ehcache Annotations for Spring? As a Java developer you would like to know, don’t you? ehcache-spring-annotations – licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 – is a project that simplifies caching in Spring based application using popular Ehcache library. Version 1.1.2 of ehcache-spring-annotations has been released only recently. In this article I will present how to create a web project that benefits from ehcache-spring-annotations

On daily basis we use Eclipse as a primary IDE for developing Java applications. We also are tightly coupled with Apache Maven as our main project management tool. A well known plugin that integrates Apache Maven into Eclipse is m2eclipse. One of its main features is the integration with Web Tools Project (WTP). In this short tutorial I will present how to start and configure Java Web Application using m2eclipse .

Yep, it’s another scripting language for Rich Interface Application development. The first releases of JavaFX  aroused mixed feelings, in fact, these were just enhanced Swing components. But latest 1.2 release is showing some fine effects and possibilities. And as soon as I watched some presentations and examples of applications, I thought: “let’s give it a try”.

One thing that was always missing in Eclipse was a GUI designer: a graphical tool for building Graphical User Interfaces. Fortunately, there is an Eclipse project called Visual Editor and the new version was released after two years of silence (1.4.0 – latest version, nightly builds).

A major new version of the Eclipse software development platform was released on 24th of June. It was the ninth annual release of the Eclipse project – Galileo with the Eclipse Platform 3.5. The Eclipse Galileo release includes 33 projects which translates into a large number of new features. In this article I will present the 6 features that I have enjoyed so far.