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Leveraging Unit Tests As Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors

Frank Cohen will demonstrate the new PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 open- source end-to-end service governance and test automation tool. Software developers...

0 replies - 2340 views - 07/21/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Being a Better Programmer #2: Don’t Be a Missionary

I've spoken a great deal thus far about the importance of knowing when black and white thinking is helpful and when it's harmful. For most people, it's easy...

0 replies - 4151 views - 07/17/08 by CollinCusce in Articles

Java and Mocking

I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito...

4 replies - 3411 views - 07/04/08 by olabini in News

Glimmer - Using Ruby to Build SWT User Interfaces

Glimmer is a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library. Glimmer comes...

20 replies - 7681 views - 06/19/08 by AndyMaleh in Articles

Thomas Enebo Releases JMX Gem

I wrote a JMX client library quite a while back and I finally got around to putting it on jruby-extras. To get the magic you can:jruby -S gem install jmxOnce...

0 replies - 1672 views - 06/10/08 by Thomas Enebo in News

The Future of JRuby with Thomas Enebo - Core JRuby Developer

JRuby is by far the most popular Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. The 1.1.2 version has just been released with improvements in startup...

0 replies - 3998 views - 05/28/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

A Productivity Race: Ruby on Rails vs JPA on OX3

This article tries to demonstrate that Java can be more productive than Ruby. We are going to develop the same application of the article Rolling with Ruby on...

15 replies - 8146 views - 05/15/08 by Javier Paniza in News

Borrowing Language Features - Default Argument Values in Java

I've been doing a lot of coding in other languages lately, primarily PHP with some Ruby thrown in there, in addition to my regular Java coding and there's one...

11 replies - 3429 views - 03/28/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Groovy (and Ruby) Only Solves Half the Problem

It is with some dismay I've been reading the latest Groovy discussions on Javalobby. I've spent quite some time learning Scala, so it bothered me a bit that I...

10 replies - 6973 views - 02/20/08 by Mats Henricson in News

GlassFish v3 Ruby Gem - New Home on RubyForge

GlassFish v3 Gem allows JRuby-on-Rails application to be launched in GlassFish v3 server. It provides a robust alternative to WEBrick and Mongrel for...

1 replies - 1574 views - 02/11/08 by Arun Gupta in News

Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects

The author's stated purpose is to describe "what you can achieve by harnessing Ruby and Java together, creating useful Rails applications, and deploying them with tools that just aren't...

1 replies - 2802 views - 01/25/08 by Matt Stine in Book Reviews

Migrating a Rails app to Grails

There's an interesting trend I've seen happening at companies over the last year. More and more, they're experimenting with Rails and/or Grails for both...

4 replies - 1750 views - 01/23/08 by Matt Raible in News

Year of the Snake: JVM Languages, which would you pick?

"TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007" making it the 6th most popular language. According to the Tiobe report increased by over 2%....

0 replies - 1740 views - 01/20/08 by Rick Hightower in News