<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:08:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>CD-ROM</category><category>Eclipse</category><category>Java</category><category>Java Application via CD-ROM</category><category>Java via CD-ROM</category><category>OSGi</category><category>Web Start</category><category>crazy</category><category>eclipse perspective</category><category>eclipse view</category><category>framework</category><category>idea</category><category>image processing</category><category>image search</category><category>introduction</category><category>java-based OS</category><category>jnode</category><category>opinion</category><category>perspective</category><category>search</category><category>thought</category><title>El-Beltagy's Blog</title><description>Wondering around in the cyberspace and blogging about what I have in mind.</description><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><language>en-us</language><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-2404458896843457068</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-03T15:27:05.854+03:00</atom:updated><title>And yet another great idea.. that turns out to be an old one.</title><atom:summary type="text">Before, I had these ideas before:1- The first idea is already there now, it’s the Spring OSGi Server.2- The second idea is, as I read once, already implemented by Google now, you upload a picture of something and search for this place, it gets you more information about the place and what is it and stuff like this. But the only difference is that Google’s implementation is for known landscapes </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2010/02/and-yet-another-great-idea-that-turns.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-345990035676172516</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-06T10:39:05.740+03:00</atom:updated><title>Java EE technologies list</title><atom:summary type="text">Today, and finally, Sun decided to post a list of all technologies used in the Java EE along with its specifications' URLs and versions. I am really glad that they finally did that.Latest Java EE release with its technologies and specifications numbers is here (for the time of this post, it is Java EE 5).For the time of this post, Java EE 6 technologies preview page.To know why I am really happy </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2009/06/java-ee-technologies-list.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-148461610381366539</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 07:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-30T12:34:28.769+03:00</atom:updated><title>"JDK 7 and languages changes" needs a pause</title><atom:summary type="text">Today I was reading about JDK 7 and the new language changes and I stumbled upon this InfoQ post. But what really grapped my attention is in the first reply to the post, here: 'Funny thing about Java, it's "what you can ADD to it"  culture.', Vic C saidFew minutes earlier I was reading Alex Miller - Java 7 page and was thinking to myself the same, but in the good way.My point is:We have been </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2009/05/today-i-was-reading-about-jdk-7-and-new.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-5867643426884528069</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-26T15:56:45.148+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">java-based OS</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jnode</category><title>JNode.org</title><atom:summary type="text">Today, I was surfing the net and reading some articles. I read a comment about something that mentioned the Java based OS; JNode.. WOW...Finally.. I am very happy for it. Very happy more than any one can ever know.Last year I was thinking why not having a Java based OS. Imagine you can just simply write Java code and save it locally and then type a command to compile it (i.e., compile MyFile.java</atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2008/08/jnodeorg.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-3431365899401240070</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-15T13:13:38.041+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crazy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">idea</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">image processing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">image search</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">opinion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">search</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">thought</category><title>And I have another crazy idea...</title><atom:summary type="text">It's been a while now since I had this small idea in my head. Some people may thing that I am crazy...But what the heck.. all brilliant ideas and thoughts were considered to be crazy at its early stages :)Imagine that you can go to your favorite search engine, Google for example, and you go find the following options1- Web (text search) - which already there and the default2- Images (based on </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2008/07/and-i-have-another-crazy-idea.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-8721249741326154252</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-15T12:04:39.748+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">CD-ROM</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Java</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Java Application via CD-ROM</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Java via CD-ROM</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Web Start</category><title>Distributing a Java Application via CD-ROM - Why?</title><atom:summary type="text">Today, I was checking Java.net web page. I read the article of Distributing a Java Web Start Application via CD-ROMWell, that is my initial thinking of its possible usage scenarios:1- It could be used for installation CDs2- It could be used for making a demo CD with and embedded server (Tomcat or Glassfish) and the application deployed to it. And having this CD sent to the client3- It could be </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2008/07/distributing-java-application-via-cd.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-5025596714904746047</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-06T15:01:29.622+03:00</atom:updated><title>First time to Maven</title><atom:summary type="text">Today, I was navigating Apache.org website. I ran into the Cocoon project. Out of curiosity, I opened it. I know the project 5 years ago and I thought that it was closed (obsolete). I don't know why I always had this thought in mind, but any way. I was really amazed that the project is still open and still has activities (latest as the time of this writing is:  Cocoon 2.2.0 Released on 5/15/08Any</atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2008/07/first-time-to-maven.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-5187002899838288677</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-04T21:52:19.572+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Eclipse</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eclipse perspective</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eclipse view</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">introduction</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">perspective</category><title>Eclipse IDE Introduction</title><atom:summary type="text">The Eclipse IDE is a very rich and easy to use. But; as a senior developer who have been all the time in contact with, and sometimes giving courses to junior developers; I found out that with the following introduction about Eclipse, I help them to have a faster startup time. So, I thought of sharing this quick introduction of Eclipse IDE to everyone.This introduction will not be including any </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2008/06/eclipse-ide-is-very-rich-and-easy-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-6569949774704060259</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-13T12:08:50.168+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">framework</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">OSGi</category><title>Dear Manager, can we develop an OSGi based application, please?</title><atom:summary type="text">For quiet sometime now and I have been thinking of a new application framework. It's an application that I had in mind for quite sometime now. And it's the same application that my managers have in mind.It's a big application that we are thinking of.But I wanted to do it differently this time. Different than my managers think of it.I did not want to have it as an application that is Struts , JSF </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2008/05/dear-manager-can-we-develop-osgi-based.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-5754170687220108796</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-08-25T14:13:46.243+03:00</atom:updated><title>javascript menu</title><atom:summary type="text">Couple of months ago, we started a new project in the company I work for. Of course, the project needs a menu to navigate the system. This is something of the basics that you don't think of and mandatory to exist.I was assigned to look for a menu. Well, I did and found couple of menus that really meets our requirements and the client's expectations. Well, almost.Option number one was struts-menu.</atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2007/08/javascript-menu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-363552778967768162</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-08-16T09:36:18.097+03:00</atom:updated><title>JDK 7 - Looking ahead</title><atom:summary type="text">I have read today the following article at Sun. And you can vote yourself with what you think is better to be added right here.For me, I am not sure if adding new major language changes to Java is a pretty good idea or not. But a general idea is that I totally agree with one of the replies who specifically said:"The reason of success for Java was that it was a simple language that can easily  be </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2007/08/jdk-7-looking-ahead.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-6316466449642582192</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-08-05T18:17:31.508+03:00</atom:updated><title>Finally, struts 1.3.8 is up in the project</title><atom:summary type="text">Well, it has been a while since I had the time to do anything but work.Today, I am almost finished with my task that I have been working on for the last couple of weeks. The task is, in general, to work with struts framework inside the framework we are using. Any way, I have learned alot of struts in this task.I will post a briefe How-To about struts.But to tell you the truth, struts </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2007/08/finally-struts-138-is-up-in-project.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-4900308075414988481</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-06-30T12:40:02.779+03:00</atom:updated><title>Java Passion</title><atom:summary type="text">Few months ago, I ran into this web site.It's a free Jva online courses. I think the auther of these course isgiving something that really few would appreciate. Thanks to Sang Shin.http://www.javapassion.com/</atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2007/06/java-passion.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17217923.post-4935153187789830531</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-06-28T18:27:08.787+03:00</atom:updated><title>3D Java-based Desktop</title><atom:summary type="text">I am not sure why do people think that Microsoft has made a new jump in the desktop world by adding a 3D feature to some elements in its new Windows.Sun has made its own project for 3D desktop few years ago (3D java-based Desktop). The project is still in progress (beta version), but I think it is cool thing.The only problem for windows users, is that only a demo version is available (Windows </atom:summary><link>http://melbeltagy.blogspot.com/2007/06/3d-java-based-desktop.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mohamed Elbeltagy)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>