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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,...

James Sugrue12/11/09
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Sun's Big Day of Announcements

Sun made three big announcements yesterday, covering the release of JavaEE 6, GlassFish v3 and NetBeans 6.8. All three announcements are closely related, but let's go through these one by one.

Hamlet D'Arcy12/11/09
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Groovy 2009 Year In Review and 2010 Predictions

The following is my review of Groovy in 2009, and a look at where Groovy might go in 2010.

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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Simplified Enterprise OSGi in WAS 7

Enterprises have just begun to dip their toes into the OSGi pool. Modularity is not easy to implement, but IBM is trying to make it easier for enterprise Java developers. The company recently unveiled its Open Alpha for OSGi applications on the WebSphere...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/11

At Washington University, they have a class that teaches students how to write iPhone apps. Each student got an iPod touch at the beginning of the semester and designed apps in teams. The apps created by students could track items in a fridge, teach you...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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Java EE 6 and NetBeans 6.8 Arrive Today

This morning Sun announced the release of the Java EE 6 SDK and the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, which is the first application server to support Java EE 6. Also announced was the general availability of NetBeans 6.8. The dual release makes sense for...

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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Open Source IntelliJ IDEA 9: A Coding Partner

JetBrains recently announced the public availability of its popular (and formerly proprietary) IDE. The announcement caused a lot of excitement and spurred debates in October when they decided to offer a free, open source edition of the next IntelliJ...

Mark Needham12/10/09
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TDD: Big Leaps and Small Steps

About a month ago or so Gary Bernhardt wrote a post showing how to get started with TDD and while the post is quite interesting, several comments on the post pointed out that he had jumped from iteratively solving the problem straight to the solution with his...

James Sugrue12/10/09
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Eclipse At eBay

Eclipse is known to be at the core of a lot of large enterprises, and eBay is no exception. Following his talk on Eclipse @ eBay, I caught up with Michael Galpin to discuss a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes at eBay and how Eclipse plays a key...