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Dhananjay Nene12/15/09
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Post Conference Recap: The 4th Indicthreads.com Conference on Java Technology

The annual indicthreads.com java technology conference is Pune’s best and possibly one of India’s finest conferences on matters related to Java technologies. I looked forward to attending the same and was not disappointed a bit. The last one was held...

Vincent Partington12/15/09
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Middleware Integration Testing With JUnit, Maven and VMware : Part 2

Last week I wrote about the approach we use at XebiaLabs to test the integrations with the different middleware products our Java EE deployment automation product Deployit supports.

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/15

Sun Microsystems' stock value shot up today after months of decline. The reason behind the 10% jump was a statement of commitments recently posted by Oracle. In a nutshell, the statement says that Oracle will maintain MySQL and keep its APIs public upon...

Matt Stine12/14/09
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Author Interview: Dave Klein on Grails: A Quick Start Guide

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dave Klein, the author of DZone's Getting Started with Grails Refcard and Grails: A Quick-Start Guide for the Pragmatic Programmers, affectionately known in Twitter circles as "GQuick." You may have...

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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SmartSVN 6.5: Differentiating Features

The Subversion (SVN) version control system, which will soon be under the Apache banner, has plenty of graphical clients available. SVN clients are small, but important components in the software development cycle, and choosing the right one can be an...

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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Oracle-Sun Deal Makes Headway

Today, as a result of "constructive discussions with the European Commission," Oracle released a statement of commitments to the customers, developers, and users of MySQL. The statement addressed some major concerns held by the EU and MySQL...

Geertjan Wielenga12/14/09
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How to Create a Web Service Client with Groovy and NetBeans Platform 6.8

In this article you will learn how to leverage the best of Groovy together with the best of the NetBeans Platform. Groovy will be used to access a Shakespeare quotation web service and parse its payload. The NetBeans Platform will be used to create a modular...

Hamlet D'Arcy12/14/09
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Java 5 + GPars: Throttling Action Processing

An interesting question came up on the GPars mailing list today: In a system that generates events, what is the best way to throttle back event processing to one event per second? I thought about an answer... then thought some more... and finally decided to...

Rob Williams12/14/09
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Setting Logger Levels in Tests, Using an ITD

Long time ago, I wrote a class called LoggerLevelStack. The idea is simple: make it possible to set a logger level programmatically from inside a test, then when the test is over, have the prior level restored automatically. The problem with it in use was...

Nicolas Frankel12/14/09
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Hibernate Hard Facts

In the third article of this series, I will show how to tweak Hibernate so as to convert any database data types to and from any Java type and thus decouple your database model from your object model.

Felipe Gaúcho12/14/09
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Hudson With Security Manager Enabled on GlassFish

GlassFish V3 is out and nothing better to celebrate the newborn than publishing some hints about the best Java EE container ever. As you will notice when you download and install GlassFish V3, the server is very easy to setup and run. But after some initial...

Ori Dar12/14/09
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Maven Repository Manager: Nexus Vs. Artifactory

My goal is to compare Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory, the two leading open source Maven repository managers.

Mitch Pronschinske12/14/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/14

Leaders on both sides of the Oracle-Sun deal have been recruiting people to send email petitions to the EU. Just before the hearings this weekend, Oracle persuaded its customers, including Vodafone, the Spanish Bank BBVA, and the National Health Service, to...

Mitch Pronschinske12/12/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/12

Yesterday, EC chair Neelie Kroes was optimistic that Oracle and the EU could come to an agreement. Today, Oracle attacked the EU, saying that they have only focused on a few arguments against the Sun merger, ignoring the majority of customers, such as GE,...

Mitch Pronschinske12/11/09
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Tasktop Ready to Mingle

The recently announced Tasktop Pro 1.6.1, which features a connector for Eclipse Mylyn and ThoughWorks Studio's Mingle. The new tool integrates application task management in Eclipse and project management through Mingle 3.0. With the new release,...