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Martin Harris06/07/10
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Tumble dried BDD from Studio Pragmatists

On the 18th of May, 2010, the very new tumbler-glass project by Studio Pragmatists uploaded Tumbler 0.2.1 to Maven. Having recently written about JBehave I found myself really liking the concept of behavior driven development. So I decided to write a...

Keyvan Nayyeri06/07/10
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Exemplar - Code Search Engine for Finding Highly Relevant Applications

After our first meeting to discuss ICSE 2010 papers with my presentation on Software Traceability with Topic Modeling, yesterday we had our second presentation on another paper entitled a Search Engine for Finding Highly Relevant Applications.

James Sugrue06/07/10
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What's The Coolest Java Based Application Out There?

After reading a recent DZone article that discussed how to create a version of Shazam in Java, it got me thinking about what are the best Java based applications that are out there right now? If you were to showcase what Java can do, where would you point...

Matt Raible06/07/10
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Running Selenium Tests on Sauce Labs

Recently I embarked on a mission to configure my team's Selenium testing process to support multiple browsers. We use Hudson for our continuous integration server. Since our Hudson instance runs on Solaris, testing with Firefox on Solaris didn't seem like a...

Vineet Manohar06/07/10
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Getting started with Nexus Maven Repo Manager

This tutorial outlines steps required to install Nexus (Maven Repository Manager) under Tomcat, or another webapp container. It shows you practical configuration and includes code snippets that go in your pom.xml and settings.xml in order to read and publish...

Jakub Holý06/07/10
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Webservice Testing With JMeter: Passing Data From a Response to Another Request

JMeter is great for functional and performance testing of many things, including web services (and to my surprise also LDAP). It also provides means for extracting data from a response and passing them to a subsequent request, which is exactly what I needed....

Mitch Pronschinske06/06/10
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Survey Finds Developers Would Rather Do Taxes than Test Software

Although most developers in a recent study said they wouldn't prefer a trip to the dentist or a fender bender over testing software, a majority said they would rather do their taxes (which is becoming increasingly complicated in the US) instead of dealing...

Mark Needham06/06/10
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Ask for Forgiveness, not for Permission

I gave a presentation at our ThoughtWorks Brazil office in Porto Alegre last way on some of the things that I've learned while working at ThoughtWorks and the first point I made was that it was better to 'ask for forgiveness, not for permission'. This was...

Matt Raible06/05/10
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Versioning Static Assets with UrlRewriteFilter

A few weeks ago, a co-worker sent me interesting email after talking with the Zoompf CEO at JSConf.

Slim Ouertani06/05/10
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Tips : Wicket and JEE 6 With Servlet 3.0 Annotations

JEE 6 and especially Servlet 3.0 introduce many features such as pluggability and asynchronous processing. In this post, I will show a how to use Wicket filter with servlet 3.0 annotations. The deployment descriptor web.xml isn't mandatory for JEE 6 and one...

Joseph Randolph06/04/10
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Handling Exceptions in Java Using Eclipse

What exactly is an exception? Exceptions are irregular or unusual events that happen in a method the program is calling which usually occurs at runtime. The method throws the Exception back to the caller to show that it is having a problem. If the...

Mitch Pronschinske06/04/10
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Metawidget 1.0 Coming Soon

Metawidget is a UI tool that circumvents many of the disadvantages in code generators, visual tools, or UI languages while still avoiding much of the manual coding. Currently at version 0.95, Metawidget will be showcased at this month's JBoss World...

Daniel Rubio06/04/10
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The ABCs of JDBC, Part 4 - Stored Procedures

This week's installment in our JDBC FAQ series provides a quick overview of stored procedures, how to execute them, and how to receive ResultSets from them. Be sure to check out the other parts in our series (future installments will cover topics such as...

kent tong06/04/10
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Architectural improvements for JVM to be enterprise ready

Time proven architecture for long running services I’ve observed that once in a while our long running Tomcat instance will get slower and slower, until it (the JVM) is restarted. Obviously the Tomcat developers are experts in enterprise Java, why is it...

Puneet Monga06/04/10
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Important Factors – Evaluation of Java Based Web Development Frameworks

With so many Java based web development frameworks available today, which one to select and which one not to, can be really tough at times. Even though there are well established frameworks available today, there can be some specific requirements which can...