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Peter ___09/30/09
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Xvantage – Yet Another Xml Serializer!

In one of my last posts I listed some xml serializers and binding tools.

John Ferguson Smart09/30/09
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Working With Temporary Files in JUnit 4.7

Another handy feature in JUnit 4.7 is the TemporaryFolder @Rule. Using this rule, JUnit will create a temporary folder before your test, and delete it afterwards, whether the test passes or fails. This comes in very handy for tests involving file manipulation...

Nitin Bharti09/30/09
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Pair Programming - Dispelling the Conspiracy

Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. Conspiracy theorists, cynics, and even customers might view pair programming as an attempt by the...

carol mcdonald09/30/09
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The Top 10 Web Application Security Vulnerabilities Starting With XSS

The Top 10 Web Application security vulnerabilities This and the next series of articles will highlight the Top 10 most critical web application security vulnerabilities identified by the Open Web...

Alois Reitbauer09/30/09
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Performance Considerations in Distributed Applications

Distribution and Communication between applications and services is a central concept in modern application architectures. In order to profit from distribution you have to keep some basic principles in mind – otherwise you can easily run into performance...

Justin Sargent09/30/09
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Perc Ultra now supports Embedded AWT/Swing Graphics

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced a new release of its PERC Ultra product with support for AWT/Swing graphics libraries. This release is the first support of AWT/Swing graphics libraries in PERC...

Justin Sargent09/29/09
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dynaTrace's Continuous APM System Improves Performance, Scalability

dynaTrace, a provider of performance management and monitoring software, today unveiled the latest release of its third-generation continuous APM system. The latest release extends the company's PurePath technology, providing transaction-level visibility...

Michael Shields09/29/09
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Flex 3 with Java Book Review

Flex 3 with Java is a quick read (<300 pages) that immediately gets you up to speed on what Flex is and how you can use it. Having worked with another RIA framework I was keen to see what Flex had...

Masoud Kalali09/29/09
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RESTful SOA with Open Source

With the exponential growth of the Web, REST as an architectural style [REF-1] has found its niche in the modern services landscape with its popularity poised to grow even further. JAX-RS is a new JCP specification [REF-2] that provides a Java API for RESTful...

Richard Perfect09/29/09
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Mind Mapping Unit Tests

In an earlier article I suggested that a good way of measuring project progress is to count the number of passing tests and compare these to the estimated number of planned test cases. The advantage of measuring progress in this way was that test cases are...

John Ferguson Smart09/29/09
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Testing Exceptions in JUnit 4.7

JUnit 4.7 introduced a few features that make it a little easier to work with exceptions. JUnit 4 introduced the expected parameter, which makes a test succeed if and only if a certain exception is thrown. For example, in the following code sample, we are...

Shashank Tiwari09/28/09
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Integrating Flex and Spring based JMS applications

This article explains the essentials of leveraging the Spring BlazeDS project to integrate Spring based JMS systems with Flex powered rich internet applications (RIAs). The fundamental concepts involved in the integration of Spring and Flex are explained...

Slim Ouertani09/27/09
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OSGi : PostEvent vs SendEvent in New Thread

This post show the difference between postEvent and sendEvent in osgi throw in example. According to documentation, post initiate asynchronous delivery of an event and send is the synchronous one.

Dan Wilson09/27/09
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So You Wanna Learn Regex?

I've had a set of blog posts stewing in my brain for a while. Steve Nelson, last year, helped me out with a Regular Expression (Regex) and I made it a point to practice my Regex skills more. This series will show how to use Regular Expressions in Eclipse and...

Kirk Knoernschild09/27/09
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Duct Tape Programming

Joel tells the story of The Duct Tape Programmer, and Uncle Bob offers his response. Now these are two pretty smart guys who know a lot about software development. But when we receive fundamentally different messages from a couple of industry luminaries like...