Monthly Archives: May 2012

Setting up a Vert.x (Mod) project to work with Maven and Netbeans 7.1 on OS X and Java 7

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll show you one way to use Netbeans 7.1 and Maven to work with a Vert.x project. This is just one way you can go about setting up the project and is how I currently do it. If you … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Netbeans, Open Source, Vertx | 6 Comments

The speed race is on: Vert.x and Node.js

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Chad Lung

Vert.x and Node.js are similar in some ways, and different in others. One such difference is that Node.js only allows you to write code in JavaScript whereas Vert.x allows you to code in Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Ruby and eventually as … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Open Source, Vertx | 5 Comments

Getting started with Socket.IO and Node.js

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Chad Lung

Node.js is not the cure for everything, however, it can certainly makes working with Websockets very easy when using the Socket.io library. Using websockets you can easily build realtime applications and even multi-player games. Today I’ll show you how to … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript, Node.js, Open Source | 5 Comments

Getting started with Vert.x and Java on OS X

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Chad Lung

Vert.x is a fairly new project that has already reached 1.0 status and has a growing community. According to their website Vert.x is: Effortless asynchronous application development for the modern web and enterprise. If your familiar with Node.js then you … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Online Games, Vertx | 3 Comments

Installing and configuring Netbeans 7.1.2 and the Java JDK 1.7 on OS X

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Chad Lung

Recently Oracle released the JDK 1.7 for OS X (download here). This is a JDK release as of the time of this article and a consumer version of the JRE 1.7 will be released later in 2012. Today I’m going … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Netbeans | 6 Comments

Posting a new ATOM entry to Atom Hopper using Node.js

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Chad Lung

Previously I blogged about how you can use Apache Abdera to post ATOM entries to an AtomPub server like Atom Hopper. Today I’ll show you how to do something similar but with Node.js.

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Tutorial: Getting started with RESTEasy (a Java REST Framework) and Netbeans 7.1

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Chad Lung

RESTEasy is quickly becoming a favorite project of mine. RESTEasy allows you to easily and quickly create REST based services with Java. Today I’ll show you how fast you can have a minimal REST service running using Netbeans 7.1 and … Continue reading →

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