JBoss Microcontainer Series

In part 4 of his Microcontainer series, Ales Justin looks under the hood at JBoss MC's varous classloading features.

Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development...

1 replies - 557 views - 11/20/09 by stephenrpalmer in Articles

Testing PDF files with Canoo Webtest and Maven2

This week I received one of that lovely and tricky tasks: to learn Canoo webtest, test it and prove its usefulness to the project in three days - convincing...

0 replies - 287 views - 11/20/09 by Felipe in News

The Abuse of Utility Creational Methods

Sometimes I encounter code, which obviously the writer had good intentions in making the development easier and faster. However, in my opinion, it is not....

2 replies - 711 views - 11/20/09 by Eyal Golan in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today.  According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures...

0 replies - 1225 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Update on Closures Coming to Java 7

It was announced yesterday that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could not...

24 replies - 7209 views - 11/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Java Scheduling Gets a Shot in the Arm, Courtesy of Terracotta

Terracotta continues its open source project acquisition tear today, bringing the the Quartz Scheduler project into it's fold.  This latest move follows the...

6 replies - 1559 views - 11/19/09 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Devoxx Day 3: Conference Day 2

Tried to attend a few sessions today, at Devoxx 2009 in Antwerp, Belgium, that I wouldn't normally have done, i.e., sessions that didn't necessarily grab my...

1 replies - 604 views - 11/19/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Getting REST Right in Spring 3.0

I've been working on getting a REST + Hibernate application using the goodies found in Spring 3.0 for my upcoming book - Spring Persistence with Hibernate.

16 replies - 2226 views - 11/19/09 by Solomon in Articles

Essential JavaFX

When I first laid my hands on 'Essential JavaFX' I thought that it was a big plus for newbies that the book assumes the reader has a basic knowledge on programming but does not require you...

0 replies - 921 views - 11/19/09 by gerps in Book Reviews

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could...

0 replies - 1737 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

CTO Ari Zilka Says Terracotta is Fast

Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009.  Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and distributed...

0 replies - 1911 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Devoxx Day 3: Conference Day 1

The conference proper started today. Up until now, there had been a lot of very long sessions, lasting 3 hours or so, i.e., university sessions. Now, not only...

4 replies - 1330 views - 11/18/09 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Thoughts About Versioning, Specifically "SNAPSHOTS"

As I converted to Maven, I started using its convention for naming versions, namely the idea of differentiating official releases from snapshot builds - the...

4 replies - 1146 views - 11/18/09 by Fabrizio Giudici in News

From ESB to BPEL - Continuing with the RiftSaw-JBossESB Integration

In the previous post to this blog, we looked at orchestrating JBossESB services from a RiftSaw BPEL process. In this post, we'll look at the other side of the...

0 replies - 757 views - 11/18/09 by ldimaggi in News

When to Choose Spring with Willie Wheeler

DZone recently caught up with Willie Wheeler, author of Spring in Practice (Manning) and long time Java consultant.  In this interview, Willie provides an...

0 replies - 2522 views - 11/18/09 by James Sugrue in Articles