Lift is a new highly scalable Web application framework built on the Scala programming language. In this article, you will learn how to create a Web application using Lift and deploy it to Geronimo. A highly scalable application server such as Apache Geronimo is the perfect partner, especially since Scala compiles to byte code just like the Java language and leverages the Java platform.

The main obstacle for JavaScript developers working with XML has been the inability to interact with the data in an easy and efficient manner. Now with the E4X this interaction is easy. Learn to use JavaScript for XML (E4X) and discover the capabilities of the E4X enhancement, designed to facilitate simple and easy parsing, calculating, editing, and related activities on XML data.

Spring is an open source Java/J2EE application framework that offers higher level data access features like transaction management, resource management, and Data Access Object hierarchies. This tutorial guides you in creating a pureQuery application that uses the Spring Framework's Data Access features.

The number of cell phone users worldwide is at 3.3 billion and rising, and Internet access from mobile phones is on a rapidly upward trajectory. In this Mastering Grails installment learn how to make your Grails applications mobile phone friendly. Developing for the mobile Web as hits unique demands, but after this article you will be well on your way.

XML is a data format concerned primarily with compatibility and flexibility. This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of XPath. Part 1 of this tutorial details the XPath specification, which allows you to specify particular sections of an XML document using a directory-like syntax. You'll learn the syntax of XPath, and you'll work with tools that let you experiment with XPath.

This demo shows how to extract and install the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) SDK that is bundled with IBM WAS CE on the openSUSE Linux platform. It also highlights key parameters required to configure a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in the .bash_profile, and how the default JVM and WAS CE installation enables access for multiple users.

Learn how to build custom JSP tags with dynamic attributes to facilitate rapid application changes. This article shows how to use JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and JSP tag files to implement data binding, page navigation, and style conventions, which make both development and maintenance easier. The last section of this article contains an example that uses Ajax to submit a Web form.

If you need a free Web development environment, look no further than Eclipse. The JavaScript Development Toolkit (JSDT) is an open source plug-in that brings robust JavaScript programming tools to Eclipse. JSDT streamlines development, simplifies code, and increases productivity for pure JavaScript source files and JavaScript embedded in HTML.

Managing source-code dependencies among projects and tools is often a burden, but it doesn't need to be. In this installment of Automation for the people, automation expert Paul Duvall describes how you can use the Apache Ant project's Ivy dependency manager to handle the myriad dependencies that every nontrivial Java project must manage.

One of the most complicated aspects of generics in the Java language is wildcards, and in particular, the treatment and confusing error messages surrounding wildcard capture. In this installment of Java theory and practice learn tricks and workarounds that help simplify using generics and weird-looking error messages emitted by javac.

IBM pureQuery is a high-performance Java data access platform focused on simplifying the tasks of developing and managing applications that access data. This article introduces the pureQuery inline method programming style, and discusses how users can use it to efficiently query and update databases. Also explore benefits and key features of using the inline method.

As a developer, you run tests multiple times per day, but how badly would they break if the sources had to change? Now you can quickly find out with Grester, an Apache Maven wrapper around Jester. Grester alleviates the burden of dealing with the annoyances of constructing a Java classpath from project dependencies so you can test your execution points more easily, using Jester.

XStream is a lightweight and easy-to-use open source Java library for serializing Java objects to XML and back again. Learn how to set up XStream, and discover how to use it to serialize and deserialize objects as well as to read configuration properties from an XML configuration file.

Use the best open source tools to work with Web pages, scripts, and styles, and make development of new sites and pages easy. Inspect and modify HTML markup, CSS, and JavaScript on the fly, inspect the DOM and client-server communications, and learn how bookmarklets can make development safer and easier.

SOA usually implies heavyweight technology for large enterprises, but the advantages of the SOA architectural pattern also apply to smaller environments. This article describes how to follow SOA principles using lightweight principles like REST, rather than all the overhead that is used in larger environments.