Kirk Knoernschild10/15/09
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2nd Annual OSGi Survey

Last year, I conducted a survey to gauge industry acceptance, adoption, and understanding of OSGi. I posted a summary of the results on my site with more detail on the APS Burton Group blog. With SpringOne2GX approaching in less than one week, I decided to...

Mitch Pronschinske10/14/09
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NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday. Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been writing extensively on the capabilities and usage of NetBeans as an IDE and a platform. His...

Mitch Pronschinske10/14/09
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SOA Manifesto and Benchmarks Sought

A collection of industry leaders from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and various other companies met in September to draft a manifesto for SOA. A manifesto is not an unusual notion when you consider that manifestos already exist for clouds and the internet.

James Sugrue10/14/09
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The Continuing Relevance of Java

Over the past few weeks there have been a number of posts on DZone debating whether Java is dead or not - it's as if this becomes a seasonal debate. I was quite pleased to see the latest results from the TIOBE Programming Community Index, which gives some...

Mitch Pronschinske10/13/09
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Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge

In the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld this week, CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison fired back against rumors (that he believes were spread by IBM) about the future and performance of Solaris and Sun: "We are going to challenge any enterprise company to...

Mitch Pronschinske10/13/09
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ScalaTest 1.0 Release "A Path Forward" to Scala

Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala. The "scalable language" has proven that it can handle code for web giants like Twitter and...

Craig Wickesser10/13/09
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Book Review - Spring in Practice

The authors are targeting developers using the Spring Framework who want to learn more about certain topics, developers who want to catch up with some of the new features in Spring 3, or developers...

Ola Bini10/13/09
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Plan to Write Big Software - and You Have Already Lost

This idea came to me as a tweet, but was way too long for a tweet. As it turns out, it’s also something I’ve been saying a lot lately, since it’s the answer to one of the very common arguments against dynamic languages.

Ibrahim Levent10/13/09
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Application Clustering For Scalability and High Availability

Application clustering is a sub-topic of “Parallel Computing”. Today many types of software support parallel computing in some form. Why do we need parallel, clustered applications? For 2 reasons; scalability and high availability. Does every application...

Mitch Pronschinske10/12/09
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Flash on iPhone: Adobe Clears a Hurdle, But More Remain

Mobile devices by Palm, Microsoft, Google, and Symbian were all indicated as recipients of an upcoming beta of Flash Player 10.1 at last week's Adobe MAX conference. It was also announced that the Flash Player was coming to Blackberry. However, Apple's...

Matt Raible10/12/09
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The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler

Today I'm attending Developer Day in Boulder, Colorado. The opening keynote was done by Chad Fowler and below are my notes from his talk.

John Ferguson Smart10/12/09
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For a Fistful of Dollars: Quantifying the Benefits of TDD

According to a recent scientific study, using TDD increases development (coding) time by 15-30%, but results in 40-90% fewer defects. This study was done with 4 different development teams, from IBM (1 team) and Microsoft (3 teams), whose...

Anthony Goubard10/12/09
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New Color Chooser in JDK 7

Many changes in Swing will appear in JDK 7 including a new date chooser. I've recently noticed that the JColorChooser has also improved in JDK 7 adding new ways to select the color and adding support for transparency. I'm quite please with it as for my photo...

Felipe Gaúcho10/10/09
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Java EE Continuous Integration Powered by Maven & Glassfish

Can you compile, deploy and test your Java EE projects with just 1 line of command? Check it out. I have no time for documentations lately, but I prefer to give you a chance to early adopt my build script and take your own conclusions. Following the steps...

Mitch Pronschinske10/09/09
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Jetty Gains on Tomcat: New Version 7.0

The open source Java Application server, Jetty, has released its 7.0 version this week and continues to grow in usage. 2009 has been an eventful year for WebTide, the makers of Jetty. In March, Jetty joined the Eclipse project and in September, WebTide...