Masoud Kalali's Blog

I have been using NetBeans for a long time now; Because it is easy to use, easy to understand and explain to others, it has impressive Java EE support, etc. I was working on Java EE projects or projects  involving NetBeans RCP applications with 40-50 modules (1m loc or so) which are considered small applications. [...]

I almost stopped blogging during 2011 because of lots of complications I was dealing with but this entry is something I couldn’t just pass over. Hopefully I will resume blogging during 2012 as actively as I was doing during late 2009 and early 2010. My predictions for 2012 in technology realm specially when focused on Java [...]

Identity, something that we hear more often these days with the whole web 2.0 and social services and more and more web based public services growing around us. The identity notion is an integral part of a security system in distributed services. Developing effective software system require an effective security and access control system which [...]

In this article I will go through number of NetBeans IDE active users count from Jan 2004 to June 2011

This is a tutorial showing what the fork/join framework is and how you can use it to implement some of your parallel programming solutions…

In this article I explain how GlassFish 3.1 provides REST administration instead of AMX/JMX administration and management interface available in GlassFish 3.0

Updating Web application’s Spring Context from Beans definitions partially stored in the database. The definitions stored in the database are the security provider beans and related configurations which we will load right after the context is initialized.

GlassFish inspired wallpapers for your desktops.

Proposed features and functionalities of JavaTM Message Service 2.0, JSR-343

A summarized list of best practices about how to use spring context configuration files in a proper and clear maner.