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Scott Lewis02/17/10
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OSGi Remote Services and Sync vs. Async

ECF 3.2 contains an implementation of the new OSGi 4.2 remote services standard. This release is coming out later this week (Feb 19). One thing that developers may discover when building and testing distributed applications is that synchronous remote...

Mitch Pronschinske02/16/10
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Mark Reinhold Talks About JDK 7, Closures, JRockit, and HotSpot

The renewed Oracle TechCasts kicked off today with Mark Reinhold talking about JDK 7 and answering questions from viewers. Reinhold discussed the significant things he is working on in the OpenJDK Project and he revealed some of the preliminary explorations...

Tinu Awopetu02/16/10
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NetBeans IDE 6.9 Milestone 1 Available for Download

The NetBeans team is pleased to announce that NetBeans IDE 6.9 Milestone 1 is now available for download.

James Sugrue02/16/10
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JavaOne 2010: What Interests You?

The call for papers recently opened for JavaOne 2010, where Oracle promise to bring the conference "back to it's roots". If you have a talk proposal, you have until March 14th to submit it. There are...

Avi Yehuda02/16/10
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Java Interface Rules

Let’s start with a short Java question. Below you can see the interface ‘Test’. Which lines in that interface will be rejected by the compiler?

Matt Raible02/16/10
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Web Application Testing with Selenium by Jason Huggins

This evening, I attended Agile Denver's monthly meeting to listen to Jason Huggins talk about Selenium. The meeting started off with a panel on UI testing that I participated in. The most interesting part of this panel (for me) was meeting the other panelists...

Nicolas Frankel02/16/10
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Seamless Installation: Convention Over Configuration

Today, I will not take the role of the architect that knows how to deliver applications but instead I will play the end-user part. In a previous post, I was tasked to put a whole development infrastructure in place. A continuous integration server was indeed...

Debasish Ghosh02/16/10
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Why I Don't Like ActiveRecord for Domain Model Persistence

When it comes to a rich domain modeling, I am not a big fan of the ActiveRecord model. The biggest problem that it entails is invasiveness - the persistence model invades into my domain model. And this was also my first reaction to the Lift-CouchDB...

Mitch Pronschinske02/16/10
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4 Methods to Automate Development Environment Setup

It's a common headache for development teams of any size to set up all the things that go into a local development environment whenever a new programmer is brought on board or moved to another machine. There's a multitude of installations that go into a...

Mitch Pronschinske02/15/10
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Git Forgoes Backward Compatibility to get New Features

The makers of the free DVCS (Distributed Version Control System), Git, have recently made the new 1.7 version available for download. Many changes in the new version however, make Git 1.7 incompatible with Git 1.6.6. The Git developers have been...

Michele Mauro02/15/10
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Book Review: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know

"97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know" is the kind of book that you read cover to cover and then keep near your workspace. Then, when you need advice, inspiration, or when you wonder...

Mitch Pronschinske02/15/10
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Android First to Host Adobe AIR Amidst HTML5 Controversy

While Apple remains adamant about keeping Flash off the iPhone, Adobe is backing one of Apple's closest competitors: Google's Android phones. At today's Mobile World Conference, Adobe demoed AIR 2.0 on an Android-based smartphone, which could be the first...

Nitin Bharti02/15/10
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Our Obsesssion with Efficiency

Dan North doesn't believe in efficiency -- it's our obsession with efficiency that has got us into the current technology mess, and which has led almost...

Lyndsey Clevesy02/15/10
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Caucho's Emil Ong Discusses Resin 4.0

Emil Ong is the Chief Evangelist at Caucho Technology, an independent application server vendor. Caucho's flagship product is a high-performance, open...

James Sugrue02/15/10
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Design Patterns Uncovered: The Singleton Pattern

The next pattern in our series is the Singleton pattern. Singleton is probably the most infamous pattern, as it's use causes a divide in the development community- some say it belongs, others say it's against object-orientation. Singletons in the Real...