A Decade of Open Source

DZone chats with Justin Erenkrantz to reflect on the last ten years at Apache and the foundation's continued success. 

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

When to avoid the Container during Unit Testing

Over the course of my career, I have been eagerly reading, interviewing colleagues and experimenting with my own unit testing methodologies. It was only...

2 replies - 1571 views - 01/30/08 by Oscar Huseyin in Blogs

Switching to Mercurial

When I first heard that NetBeans and OpenJDK were going to switch to a version control system I'd never heard of called Mercurial (aka Hg) I had some...

11 replies - 11087 views - 01/29/08 by Tim Boudreau in Articles

Groovy 1.5.2 out of the oven

The Groovy development team and G2One, the Groovy / Grails professional services company have just released a new bug fix release of Groovy 1.5, with the 1.5.2...

7 replies - 4037 views - 01/29/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News

Why are we not using Java EE 5?

Believe it or not, in a few months the Java EE 5 specification will be two years old (Final Release on the 11 May, 2006). And nobody is using it.

19 replies - 15275 views - 01/29/08 by Antonio Goncalves in Articles

Sun Productizes the Ultimate Add-on

Sun has productized the ultimate add-on, its Project Blackbox water-cooled virtual data center in a 20-foot shipping container, as the Sun MD S20, MD being...

1 replies - 1627 views - 01/29/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

LiquiBase 1.5.0 Released

LiquiBase Core 1.5.0 is now available for download from http://www.liquibase.org/download. LiquiBase is an open source database version control and...

0 replies - 3106 views - 01/29/08 by Nathan Voxland in News

How to Create Visual Applications in Java?

My excellent colleague Sun evangelist Chuk Munn Lee wrote me an e-mail in response to my description yesterday of how to create JConsole plugins: "I did...

7 replies - 27366 views - 01/29/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Bob Lee on dependency injection frameworks and collections

There is a JavaPosse interview with "Crazy" Bob Lee from JavaPolis that went up recently that is very interesting [audio, video]. The first big...

5 replies - 2857 views - 01/29/08 by Alex Miller in News

SpringSource acquires Covalent

Wow - I never expected SpringSource to acquire Covalent, but it definitely seems like a good match. From Rod Johnson in Some Decisions are Easy – Like...

2 replies - 2252 views - 01/29/08 by Matt Raible in News

Towards a mainstream Open Source OSGi application server?

It’s official: SpringSource has just acquired Covalent. Or as I explained it to one of my colleagues, “the company behind our IoC framework has bought the...

8 replies - 6587 views - 01/29/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

soapUI 2.0.2: Comprehensive web services dev/testing tool updated

soapUI is the leading free and open source desktop application for inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating/mocking and

2 replies - 6629 views - 01/29/08 by Ole Matzura in News

Ian Roughley on Practical Apache Struts 2

According to Apress, Apache Struts has long provided Java developers with a powerful framework for building extensible, maintainable web applications. Yet the...

6 replies - 5379 views - 01/28/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Sun Courts Academia with New Student Portal

Aaron Houston recently pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and...

5 replies - 1776 views - 01/28/08 by Jim Bethancourt in News

How to Get Started with JConsole Plugins

While reading Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional, I discovered for the first time that the JConsole is pluggable, since Java SE 6....

0 replies - 7875 views - 01/28/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Don Brown Makes Maven 2 Not Suck

Don Brown spent some time over the weekend Making Maven 2 not suck: While there are a few (very important, I might add) things Maven 2 gets right, there are a...

5 replies - 4394 views - 01/28/08 by Matt Raible in News