Looking to make Web development easier for Java developers, the Apache Software Foundation began offering this week Apache Wicket 1.3, an open source component-based Web framework. Formerly housed ...

A recent study by Java developer Raghu Kodali has shown that porting Sun’s Java EE tutorial application RosterApp from EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.0 resulted in more than a 50-percent reduction in code.