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Maven's Strengths and Weaknesses as a Dependency Management System

For many Java teams, switching to Maven will introduce them to formal dependency management. Maven actually does a pretty decent job and is a fantastic...

2 replies - 11618 views - 03/01/10 by Eric Minick in Articles

Nexus OSS is Here to Save You From Java.net's Maven Hell

Sonatype is spreading the word: 'Come to us and we'll help you migrate your Maven projects off of Java.net and on to Nexus OSS.'  Many developers agree,...

1 replies - 7497 views - 03/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Shorter Syntax for Creating Stubs with Mockito

As part of my efforts to create more concise Unit Tests in Java, Steve McLarnon and I recently added the ability to create a stub and stub one method with only...

2 replies - 4928 views - 02/27/10 by Jay Fields in Articles

Coding: Shared Libraries

On a few projects that I've worked on one of the things that we've done is create a shared library of objects which can be used across several different...

4 replies - 4403 views - 02/27/10 by Mark Needham in Articles

Sonatype Free Maven Repository Hosting For FLOSS projects - Great Stuff!

When I start the mavenization of my projects, I had some doubts - because of my ignorance - about where to put my Maven repositories. I have two scenarios:...

0 replies - 7554 views - 02/26/10 by Fabrizio Giudici in News

The Pain is Over For Java.net's Maven Artifacts!

Deploying Maven artifacts using the java.net repository is always a challenge and most of the time the result is unpredictable...the good news is...

0 replies - 4892 views - 02/26/10 by Jean-Francois Arcand in Articles

Jersey Featuring jQuery + JSONP

One of the most controversial but yet powerful techniques for integrating distributed systems is the JSONP format, a javascript function that bypasses the...

0 replies - 11436 views - 02/26/10 by Felipe Gaúcho in Articles

IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 Open Beta

IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 Open Beta IBM® WebSphere® Application Server...

0 replies - 1547 views - 02/25/10 by Yakura Coffee in Announcements

A J2ME Library and a Simple HTTP Service Framework

J2ME's support for calling a server is rather simple and low level. Not only do you have to deal with the HTTP Connection at a low level, there is no high...

2 replies - 6505 views - 02/25/10 by Ant Kutschera in Articles

The Maintainability of Unit Tests

At speakerconf 2010 discussion repeatedly arose around the idea that unit tests hinder your ability to refactor and add new features. It's true that tests...

9 replies - 8668 views - 02/25/10 by Jay Fields in Articles

Daily Dose - Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing

Zend Server 5.0 GA Boasts Code Tracing  The dominant PHP company, Zend, just released the final version of Zend Server 5.0  The signature new feature is...

0 replies - 17434 views - 02/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Poll Results: What You Want To See In JavaOne 2010

Last week I asked what interested you most across the seven tracks announced for JavaOne 2010.  The votes are in now, and there are no big surprises there. ...

4 replies - 3215 views - 02/24/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

Focused Extreme Feedback With CI Information Radiators - a Case Study

Build Server Information radiators are an excellent, easy-to-implement way of getting people to pay attention to broken builds. But it pays to tailor them to...

0 replies - 3277 views - 02/24/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Generate your TLD Using Java Annotations

If you are stuck with JSP and keeping your TLD files by hand (like me), you are probably ignoring the elephant in the room:Tag classes must be kept up-to-date...

0 replies - 5685 views - 02/24/10 by Ignacio Coloma in Articles

An (Overlooked?) Use Case for the Strategy Pattern Part 2: It’s Not About Template Method

As I explained in my previous post, I think there is a use case for the strategy pattern that, in my opinion, we often overlook: This is what I’ve seen:...

0 replies - 3478 views - 02/24/10 by Alex Ruiz in Articles