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Improvement as a Developer

tracer — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:19:26 -0500

I was doing some thinking about areas where I’m lacking as a developer. There are many, but I’ll list a few here.Testing ImprovementsI think I’ve come a long way in the last few years in the area of testing. I’m disciplined about testing now and don’t write code without writing unit tests at the same time. If I’m modifying existing code without any tests I spend the time to write...

Changes in the Application Server Market

PeterCooperEllis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:36:48 -0500

There have been a number of significant developments in the enterprise software infrastructure market in the past several years. The application server market in particular, has been impacted and application server architectures are responding to new requirements. This article takes a look at a new breed of application server that is emerging.

Testing Code Generation

deconcoder — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:27:24 -0500

Some things lend themselves to TDD better than others. Code generation, it turns out, scores a 10 on this front. (To some people, it‘s heresy to think that one should favor one approach over another based on the ease of development; I would disagree with this. When a factory tools up to make a product, it‘s all about whether they can get to a production level where they are rolling off the...

Jt - Java Pattern Oriented Framework (Jt 2.9)

wwwfswcom — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:24:50 -0500

Jt2.9 has been released. Jt is a pattern oriented framework for the rapid implementation of Java applications. Jt has been utilized in several large mission critical systems. Jt implements many well-known patterns including Data Access Objects (DAO), GoF design patterns and J2EE patterns.

Mirror - DSL for Reflection API

fabiokung — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:20:49 -0500

Mirror is a simple DSL layer over Java Reflection API, designed to make the use of this powerful tool easier. Nothing of those three thousand exceptions thrown at your face. Neither those completely unreadable lines of code.Simplicity is really powerful too.

The Business Rules Management System Visual Rules Version 4.3 is now available

sp24000 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:09:13 -0500

NEW - Visual Rules Team Server * Centralized rule repository * User- and team-based permissions on every level of rule models * Complete change history and log for auditability * Synchronization of multiple authors without conflicts * and more...Visual Rules Modeler * New Test Browser * Negative rule tests with specification of expected results for...

New Native Swing goodies: Web Browser with XPCOM, Syntax Highlighter, HTML editors

chrriis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:55:45 -0500

The DJ Native Swing project is quite a success: offering its component suite (JWebBrowser, JFlashPlayer, JHTMLEditor, JVLCPlayer, ...) as an open source project allows to gather good ideas and realistic use cases that help shape its evolution. The last official release is no exception.

Protection! Licensing Toolkit 4.1 adds improved performance and usability

ak42382 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:33:18 -0500

jProductivity has released Protection! 4.1, the newest version of its licensing solution for software developers and publishers. Protection! provides a complete turnkey licensing package that lets software vendors lock pirates out of their copyrighted software.This release introduces new features and performance improvements for Protection!

Specialize In Something Relevant

jaycfields — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:04:10 -0500

If you read my blog entry on Language Specialization you might have concluded that I prefer generalists. If, in our industry, generalists were what the definition describes, then I would prefer generalists. Unfortunately, business software developers seem to have created their own definition of generalist.

soapUI 2.5: the REST Release

nreimertz — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:57:00 -0500

The eviware team has released soapUI 2.5, the REST Release.soapUI 2.5, by eviware, introduces support for testing of RESTful services, including Inspection, Invocation, Functional Tests, Assertions and LoadTests. soapUI 2.5 allows tests of both WADL supported and WADLess RESTful Services. The REST testing support makes soapUI the first testing tool to properly support REST Testing.

Alkitab Bible Study 2.0 (Bible with Java)

kiyut — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:59:48 -0500

KIYUT just released Alkitab Bible Study 2.0, an open source and free Java desktop Bible study software on top of NetBeans Platform 6.5. It supports single/parallel view, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, daily devotions, etc. It also comes with powerful search capability. It features rich and user-friendly Bible software study tools. Click to enlarge:

NetBeans IDE 6.5 is Now Available for Download!

TinuA — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:35:04 -0500

NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.5!

Building a Flickr Slideshow with NetBeans IDE 6.5

nbharti78 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:57:42 -0500

In this screencast, Justin Bolter, Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, shows you how to build a PHP Flickr slideshow using NetBeans IDE 6.5 . Bolter walks through the various ways in which NetBeans IDE 6.5 supports PHP development, including project support, run configurations, code completion, syntax highlighting, documentation, refactoring and debugging.

Configuring Logging in JBoss

meera — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:31:18 -0500

The JBoss application server uses Log4J, which is an open-source logging framework, to do logging. The Log4J configuration file is located at server/xxx/conf/jboss-log4j.xml.

Context Sensitive Resource Bundle Entries in JSF Applications

wvreeven — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:34:59 -0500

We were faced by an interesting challenge: our JSF application should display boilerplate text - titles, button labels, prompt, error messages, tool tips etc, - in a context sensitive way. Not just by language, region and variant - the well known dimensions along which the standard JSF and Java mechanism works with Resource Bundles. Beyond that simple 'locale' sensitivity - which we also needed -...

GridGain 2.1 Preview

dsetrakyan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:04:56 -0500

I would like to give a preview of GridGain 2.1 release. We are very excited about this ucoming release as it brings many enhancements and new features to our product mostly based on the user and customer feedback that we have been getting. Here are some new features that you will see in 2.1 release.

DbWrench Database Design v1.5.2

harnek — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:02:03 -0500

Version 1.5.2 of this database design and round-trip engineering software has been released.

JExplorer New Release

Igor Shvydkoy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:05:14 -0500

TeamDev is announcing the release of JExplorer 1.9.1.JExplorer (derivative from Java Explorer) provides a convenient Java API for integrating Microsoft Internet Explorer into Java applications. With JExplorer, you can use the IE browser as a Java Swing UI component, in headless mode, or programmatically manipulate it without embedding in the UI. You can do all these and many other...

A Rich Web Service API for Your Favorite Framework, Part 2: JBoss Seam

stoicflame — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:51:24 -0500

The intent of this how-to series is to demonstrate the development of a rich Web service API on a variety of popular development frameworks. Part 2 (this tutorial) targets JBoss Seam.

Log4j Viewer and Analysis for Fault Detection

haimko — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:46:55 -0500

XpoLog released a new Application Logs analysis technology with features that helps to report on unique errors, terms and events. The new technology auto detect new messages and tag them to level of risk based on the event content. During testing or production, log4j events are diagnosed and monitored.

Savant 2.0 Release Candidate 1 Available

bp19330 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:46:08 -0500

Savant 2.0 release candidate 1 is available. Savant is a build tool and dependency management system that extends the functionality of Apache Ant. Savant is hosted at http://code.google.com/p/savant-build. Savant 2.0 will add a number of features including:

Hibernate Search : Mapping Entities

meera — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:44:27 -0500

All Hibernate Search mapping metadata is described through annotations. Hibernate Search metadata is very code centric and shares a lot of information from the class structure: annotations are a natural fit and avoid lots of redundancy compared to other metadata models like XML. It would be quite simple to add an XML deployment descriptor support for Hibernate Search. Nobody has found the time...

My Unified Theory Of Bugs

mhevery — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:22:35 -0500

I think of bugs as being classified into three fundamental kinds of bugs.

CodeExplorer 1.1: Code Analysis Plugin for IntelliJ Idea

leha2000 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:08:28 -0500

CodeExplorer is a free IntelliJ Idea plugin that helps to explore method call chains.Its tool window shows methods and calls between them on a handy diagram.Now you can see usages and structure of several methods on a single diagram! Working with plugin consists from:- adding methods and calls between them to the diagram (executing commands from the Analyze menu)

Building Rich Internet Applications Using Pivot and JavaScript

gbrown@vmware.com — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:56:00 -0500

Pivot is a platform for building rich internet applications that run in the Java Plugin. While Pivot applications are often built using a combination of XML and Java, it is sometimes more convenient to build simple applications or applications whose code is likely to change often, such as prototypes, using a scripting language such as JavaScript. Pivot now allows developers to write their...