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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 - 440 views - 11/20/09 by Felipe in News

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 - 1507 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...

30 replies - 7631 views - 11/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

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 - 1902 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 961 views - 11/18/09 by ldimaggi in News

The Benefits of Testable Code

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why...

1 replies - 3136 views - 11/17/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mark your calendars!  The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.  Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. ...

0 replies - 1899 views - 11/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The Importance of Distributed Caching

Over the past year we've seen more and more articles here on JavaLobby about distributed caching. Terracotta, in particular, have been at the forefront of many...

0 replies - 2089 views - 11/16/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

PayPal Gives Java Store a Cash Register

Developers can finally make money at the Java Store Beta, which now supports for-fee applications.  The payment system is powered by PayPal's Adaptive Payment...

0 replies - 1606 views - 11/12/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Zembly is Shutting Down

According to a goodbye letter, Sun's Web 2.0 effort, Zembly, is shutting down on November 30th.  The project allowed easy creation of Web apps using a...

3 replies - 3001 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Java Can Be Saved

Much has been written in the Java community about what is wrong with Java and what to do about it. Unfortunately, most of us developers are code centric, so...

21 replies - 3623 views - 11/11/09 by Jeff Martin in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers.  A judge extended the deadline...

0 replies - 2083 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

On static compilation of Groovy

Groovy is the great programming language. Period. I am not going to argue about that and I don't plan to convince anybody. If you don't share this belief or...

11 replies - 3819 views - 11/10/09 by Alex Tkachman in Articles

EU Rejects Snoracle - Larry Vows to Fight!

Oracle and the  EU are escalating their legal battle over the Sun acquisition.  The EU took the first step towards blocking the merger Monday with a formal...

6 replies - 2541 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

A Look Inside JBoss Microcontainer's ClassLoading Layer

Now that we've grasped the Virtual File System (VFS) concepts, it’s time we move on to Microcontainer’s ClassLoading layer (as promised in the previous...

0 replies - 3343 views - 11/10/09 by alesj in Articles