Tools & Methods

Tech Chat - Mike Neale on JBoss BRMS

JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) provides an open source business rules management system that enables easy business policy and rules...

0 replies - 4192 views - 08/07/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

AJDT 2.0 is Here

And it looks good. I complained pretty vociferously on here about the inability of eclipse to understand ITDs (or at least not show them as an error). That's...

1 replies - 2275 views - 07/27/09 by Rob Williams in Articles

Before You Say "It's Not Working"

A few days back a couple of interns working in my office came up to me and said "It's not working". They were talking about a part of an application...

3 replies - 4611 views - 07/14/09 by Bharath Ganesh in Articles

Quality Assurance With Sonar

It's incredible how unknown a tool like Sonar is yet. I guess Gradle suffers the same destiny. After all, they're both similar in their intent, improve the...

6 replies - 2508 views - 07/12/09 by Jose in Articles

Getting Started with Xtext

Xtext has been released as a part of the Eclipse Galileo release train on June 24th, 2009. Xtext is a framework for building DLSs (domain specific languages)....

0 replies - 5030 views - 06/30/09 by Peter Friese in Articles

Two Strategies for Managing Run-Time Dependencies

Many software projects have dependencies at run time on other projects that are built and deployed by the software team. Some version of another application...

2 replies - 2301 views - 06/18/09 by EricMinick in Articles

Implementation of Duke's Choice Award Winning Clover

Don't you hate committing code and then waiting hours to find out you broke the build? Even worse is when other people commit code at a similar time to you,...

1 replies - 1432 views - 06/09/09 by NPellow in Articles

Improving Code Quality

In this article I discuss a static analysis tool that finds defects in Java programs. Static analysis tools can find real bugs and real issues in your code....

12 replies - 5966 views - 06/08/09 by m_muhammadali in Articles

Code Quality Tools in Java

There are several tools to measure the code quality. The ones I have tried with a lot of success are:

4 replies - 8230 views - 05/25/09 by Peter Karich in Articles

Using Java Assertions? Use an Assertion-failed Breakpoint!

I'm a big fan of assertions. I use them very often in my code as safeguards. I was very pleased when true, native assertions were introduced to Java: they...

4 replies - 5913 views - 05/07/09 by Zviki Cohen in Articles

The Changing Definition of Continuous Integration

As we wrap up every CITCON, we’re asked about what we take away. For me, a revelation was that the definition of Continuous Integration has changed wildly....

3 replies - 2936 views - 04/28/09 by EricMinick in Articles

Getting Started With WikiText

Documentation is the bane of all developers. Nobody likes to write documentation, but most people know we need it. Even more so in Open Source projects. If you...

23 replies - 5578 views - 04/24/09 by Peter Friese in Articles

Always Assume That You're the Problem

If you are as much of a fan of the book “The Pragmatic Programmer” as I am, then you might remember the phase: “Select” Isn’t Broken

9 replies - 4223 views - 03/27/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Maven - A Whistle Stop Video Tour

 In this presentation, recorded at a recent London Java Community meeting, put on by Skills Matter, Martijn Verburg and Michael McCarthy guide the users...

3 replies - 2955 views - 02/10/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Domain-Driven Design and Deployment Challenges

 In this session, recorded by Skills Matter Gojko Adzic talks about strategies, challenges and common pitfalls of using Domain-Driven Design for...

0 replies - 3773 views - 02/04/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos