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Rick Hightower
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Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for ArcMind Inc. He is coauthor of the popular book Java Tools for Extreme Programming, which covers applying XP to J2EE development, and also recently co-authored Professional Struts. He has been working with J2EE since the very early days and lately has been working mostly with Maven, Spring, JSF and Hibernate. Rick is a big JSF and Spring fan. Rick has taught several workshops and training courses involving the Spring framework as well as worked on several projects consulting, mentoring and developing with the Spring framework. He blogs at http://jroller.com/page/RickHigh.
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Job Trends: JSF Catches
Swing By Rick Hightower JSF did well in 2007.
Let's put it this way: If
job demand for the Struts
framework and JSF were a
stocks and you invested
in it in April of 2005 by
July of 2007 you would
barely break even with
Struts, but with JSF your
investment would have
grown 700% as of July
... Feb. 1, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 9,246 | GWT: The Most Important
Announcement at JavaOne? By Rick Hightower  Time is a brutal enemy of
youth and exuberance.
Time makes cynics of us
all. Time is the
universal truth serum
that reveals all
authenticity. Time will
tell, but the
announcement at JavaOne
2006 by Google may change
the face of AJAX
development; strike that,
Goo... Jun. 28, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 17,958 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
Google's GWT "May Change
Web Development Forever" By Rick Hightower Time is a brutal enemy of
youth and exuberance.
Time makes cynics of us
all. Time is the
universal truth serum
that reveals all
authenticity. Time will
tell, but the
announcement yesterday by
Google may change the
faces of AJAX
development, strike that,
Google's... May. 19, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 37,140 Replies: 1 | Interesting Times in the
Java Enterprise By Rick Hightower  Robert F. Kennedy once
said, 'There is a Chinese
curse which says, 'May he
live in interesting
times.'' The enterprise
Java space is
'interesting.' Not too
long ago, folks like
Bruce Tate, Gavin King,
and Rod Johnson were
pushing lightweight
frameworks such as Spr... May. 5, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 22,666 Replies: 3 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
"Spring Good!" By Rick Hightower 'If you have not looked
into Spring yet, it is
time.' That's Rick
Hightower's New Year's
advice. 'As Rod Johnson
once put it: Spring puts
the OO back in J2EE
development,' he
continues. What makes
Spring different than the
other frameworks and
containers, Hightowe... Jan. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 66,564 Replies: 4 | "JSF Good!" Says Rick
Hightower By Rick Hightower 'Apparently it is popular
to bash Sun and J2EE,'
notes Rick Hightower. But
'JSF does not deserve
it,' he adds. Hightower
finds JSF a lot more
productive than Struts:
'I was amazed how fast I
could crank things out.
The only other framework
I would consider using
i... Sep. 20, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 35,785 Replies: 7 | BeanShell & DynamicJava:
Java Scripting with Java By Rick Hightower The past three articles
in this series have
highlighted the strengths
of scripting languages.
They're interactive and
dynamic, and allow you to
experiment, debug and
prototype solutions
quickly. However, the
most common response when
I speak to die-hard Java
fanat... Jul. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 28,368 | Extending Your
Applications with Bean
Scripting Framework By Rick Hightower Part 4 of a series
discussing the many
languages that compile
and/or run on the Java
platform Jun. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 19,149 | NetRexx Programming for
the JVM By Rick Hightower This article is Part 3 of
an interactive series
that discusses the many
languages that compile
and/or run on the Java
platform. Java
Developer's Journal
invites you to vote for
your favorite non-Java
programming language in
the JDJ forum. Your vote
will decide whi... May. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 20,524 | Interview...with Mike
Cowlishaw By Rick Hightower R. Hightower: Have you
considered an open-
source license? M.
Cowlishaw: Until recently
the licensing issues
seemed something of a
minefield with so many
different ideas on what
open source should be.
Also, my
translator/compiler is
very much a research
scaffol... May. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 13,616 | Python Programming in the
JVM By Rick Hightower What This Series Is
About. This article is
Part 2 of a series that
discusses the many
languages that compile
and/or run on the Java
platform. This is an
interactive series. Java
Developer's Journal
invites you to vote for
your favorite non-Java
programming languag... Mar. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 18,559 | Programming Languages for
the JVM By Rick Hightower Back before Java became
popular, I was a C++
bigot. I programmed in
nothing but C++. I lived,
ate and breathed C++. If
it wasn't C++, it was
rubbish. I thought C++
was the alpha and omega
of object-oriented
programming. I had
"operator
overloading" for
... Feb. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 18,785 | How to Use COM/DCM: Part
Two By Rick Hightower How can Java classes be
used as scriptable
components? DCOM, like
CORBA, provides both
static and dynamic
invocation of objects.
DCOM uses type library to
provide metadata to do
the dynamic invocation
and introspection similar
to CORBA's interface
repository or Ja... Nov. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 19,213 Replies: 1 | Developing with DCOM &
Java By Rick Hightower Developing distributed
components with Java and
DCOM (distributed
component object model)
simplifies developing
distributed applications.
If you know CORBA or RMI,
DCOM is easy to learn.
Microsoft's Java Virtual
Machine makes developing
COM and DCOM components
painless. Jul. 1, 1999 12:00 AM Reads: 19,108 Replies: 1 |
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