Handling form-based file upload with GWT and the Apache Jakarta Commons FileUpload library

Uploading files to a filesystem, a remote server, a database, etc, is a frequent need in web applications. These files are often multipart data (that is of varying types such as XML, HTML, plain text, binary … ). With GWT, a good solution to handle this need is the use of the Apache Jakarta Commons … Read more

My book on EJB 3 is now on sale

I received an email from the editor informing me that the book is now printed and will be available in bookstores next week (from July 5th, 2010). It is already available for sale on Amazon and ENI. An online version is also available. Here is the cover of the book :

Rich Internet Application Statistics

This Flex app is an interesting one. It shows the percentages of deployment of the main RIA plugins (Flash Player for Flex, Silverlight Player for Silverlight, JRE for JavaFX), in real time, based on about 41 sites, during the last 30 days. Apparently, regardless of the OS and the browser, almost 70% of the desktops … Read more