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"Eclipse BIRT is free / open source reporting engine for Java. A commercial BIRT Report Server is available from Actuate (the company behind Eclipse BIRT). While Eclipse BIRT does not provide a free/open source reporting server, the BIRT Runtime provides a simple Eclipse BIRT Web Viewer. Eclipse BIRT Web Viewer installation instructions for several Java EE application servers are here. Here I share my own experience installing Eclipse BIRT 2.6.1 Web Viewer under GlassFish 3.0.1 Java EE Application Server :"

"Activiti is a Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow system targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts. "

"The goal of JavaMelody is to monitor Java or Java EE applications servers in QA and production environments. It is not a tool to simulate requests from users, it is a tool to measure and calculate statistics on real operation of an application depending on the usage of the application by users. JavaMelody is opensource (LGPL) and production ready: in production in an application of 25 person years. JavaMelody is easy to integrate in most applications and is lightweight (no profiling and no database). JavaMelody is mainly based on statistics of requests and on evolution charts. "

The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as LDAP v3 compliant by the Open Group (Apache Directory Server), and Eclipse-based directory tools (Apache Directory Studio).

Remus Information Management. It is a free OpenSource client application for the management of information with a connection to multitude of data repositories and a desktop-integration for an optimal usage for the offline management, visualization and easy accessibility of information to the user. The biggest efforts are the linking of information throughout different repositories, the offline storage, the clean representation and the fast search through the information.

"The Virgo Web Server from EclipseRT is a completely module-based Java application server that is designed to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications with a high degree of flexibility and reliability. It offers a simple yet comprehensive platform to develop, deploy, and service enterprise Java applications. The Virgo kernel supports the core concepts of Virgo and is not biased towards the web server, thus enabling other types of server to be created. The kernel can also be used stand-alone as a rich OSGi application platform. A server runtime can easily be constructed by deploying suitable bundles on top of the kernel. "

"LWUIT is a UI library that is bundled together with applications and helps content developers in creating compelling and consistent Java ME applications. LWUIT supports visual components and other UI goodies such as theming, transitions, animation and more."

"The Apache Commons CLI library provides an API for parsing command line options passed to programs. It's also able to print help messages detailing the options available for a command line tool. "

This post is for those who are new to Spring Framework. This covers the two basic Spring scopes, the singleton and prototype.

Sample tutorial on how of Spring Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control using Constructor Injection and Setter Injection

Tutorial and Example on how to integrate Java, Spring, Hibernate and MySQL

A step by step tutorial on adding CRUD (Create,Read,Update,Delete) capability on Spring MVC using Hibernate JPA.

This tutorial covers adding validations to forms during submission using Validator interface from Spring. This is part of the Spring MVC tutorial series.

A tutorial on how to create a web application using basic Spring MVC from spring-framework 3.0.5. We will design our web-based application based on the standard Spring MVC where request to the web-app will be routed to a Controller module, then to it's jsp View with data from our business Model

Sample of using Hibernate Annotations by reducing XML configuration files thus making it simpler to define required metadata directly into our Java code. When using annotations, we no longer need the additional mapping file (*.hbm.xml). The metadata for the ORM is specified in the individual classes.

A tutorial on how to create a dynamic web project in eclipse

Spring 3.0.5 is now released and comes with the fixes of more than 80 minor issues and provided some enhancements and improvements to the Spring Expression Language (SpEL), annotation support, and embedded databases.

An Example explaining on how @Required annotation from Spring Framework works. Provides sample on how to use @Required and expected exception if beans are not properly configured like BeanInitializationException or Property is required for bean.

"The agile dependency manager Apache Ivy™ is a popular dependency manager focusing on flexibility and simplicity. Find out more about its unique enterprise features, what people say about it, and how it can improve your build system!"

"sbt is a simple build tool for Scala projects that aims to do the basics well. It requires Java 1.5 or later. "