Java

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 - 1290 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 - 3554 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 - 2290 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 - 2281 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 - 1740 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 - 3153 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 - 3749 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 - 2321 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 - 4011 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 - 2689 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 - 3926 views - 11/10/09 by alesj in Articles

SAP CTO Calls For Java Freedom

Vishal Sikka, CTO at SAP has made a call for Java to be opened up for the community in his latest blog entry. Having incorporated Java into their NetWeaver...

9 replies - 2193 views - 11/10/09 by James Sugrue in News

Can Java Be Saved?

The Java language has been around for a pretty long time, and in my view is now a stagnant language. I don't consider it dead because I believe it will be...

43 replies - 10873 views - 11/10/09 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET

JNBridge, a provider of interoperability tools between Java and .NET frameworks, announced the newest versions of JNBridge Pro and its JMS adapters. ...

0 replies - 1504 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Should Programming Languages Support Unit Testing Natively?

I used to be strongly opposed to this idea but I started changing my mind recently. Here is what happened.  The bad Production and test code can be...

7 replies - 2210 views - 11/09/09 by Cedric Beust in Articles