SpringSource tcServer - The Tomcat You Know, The Enterprise Capabilities You Need published on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:53:05 -0500
I still remember the day I first evaluated Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). It was in late 1998 and we were considering switching to Weblogic to take advantage of an already existing application server to host our business l...
Answers to My Two Most Pressing Questions on Hibernate Search published on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:18:42 -0500
The other day I finished going through this new Manning book on Hibernate Search. This is basically a good book, and is useful. I still think Hibernate Search itself is great thing. I can hear a lot of longtime Lucene us...
Interfacing With Hard-to-Test Third-Party Code published on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:12:27 -0500
Shahar asks an excellent question about how to deal with frameworks which we use in our projects, but which were not written with testability in mind....
Jailer 2.7.0: Test Data Extraction Tool published on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:45:00 -0500
Release 2.7.0 supports the DbUnit flat XML dataset file format.Jailer is a tool for test-data extraction, schema browsing, and rendering. It exports consistent and referentially intact row-sets from relational databases....
Updated NetBeans Java Editor Refcard for NetBeans IDE 6.5! published on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:07:02 -0500
The NetBeans Java Editor Refcard has been updated to 6.5. Go here to download it. Based on a lot of useful comments received for the first release of this Refcard, which was for NetBeans IDE 6.1, several changes have b...
Interview: Amr ElAdawy, JSPX Java Web Framework Developer published on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:35:53 -0500
Amr ElAdawy is a software engineer at Etisalat Egypt in Cairo. Etisalat is an Egyptian Mobile operator, where Amr develops Java enterprise applications for telecommunications & sales. He is a member of a small commun...
Preflight Builds: There's A Time And A Place published on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:16:43 -0500
Over the past several years, build management and Continuous Integration tool vendors have suggested that their tools should manage not just authoritative builds from source control, but also replace the test builds done...
2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited published on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:08:39 -0500
It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic on the coming year. (I'm thinking that maybe the next year--2...
Register for the Java Power Tools Bootcamps 2009 Season! published on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:13:15 -0500
Organisations may well be slashing IT training budgets this year, but one New Zealand training company is offering a course that many might still find worthwhile.Wakaleo Consulting, a Wellington-based IT consulting and t...
Testing JavaFX UIs: Part 2 of ? published on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:05:27 -0500
In order to perform functional testing of a JavaFX UI (as discussed here), we need first to start such UI from a test (written in Java) and then get a reference to the JFrame hosting it. Once we overcome this challenge, ...
Selenium and Section 508 published on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:40:09 -0500
Selenium is a popular test tool for web applications. It was developed from 2004 onwards, originally to acceptance-test a time-and-expense-reporting application for ThoughtWorks. Members of ThoughtWorks are still involve...
Integrating Direct Ajax into the Enterprise Environment published on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:32:58 -0500
I'd like to introduce an Ajax framework which combines the ease of Direct Ajax with the benefit of the J2EE container, using JBoss SEAM. I've found the most appropriate name:Distributed Ajax Application Model ...
76 Events: Statistics About Hibernate 3.2.2 published on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:51:09 -0500
Frameworks are growing with every release. Classes are changed, removed and added. In this series I zoom in on some well known projects and analyze their class names with completely meaningless statistics. This is the an...
Securing AJAX Servlets in JBoss Portal published on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:40:31 -0500
Before the Portlet 2 specification (JSR286), the recommended method for adding AJAX functionality to a JSR168 portlet was to deploy an additional servlet to the portal server (either inside the same WAR as your portlet(s...
enPaper Studio 1.0 Beta: Java-Based Document Automation Tool published on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:38:52 -0500
A one-stop document automation solution Agilemon Corp. proudly announced the first beta release of a document automation solution, enPaper Studio 1.0 beta for Java. ...
JobServer 2.4.2 published on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:37:18 -0500
Latest release introduces ability to run job and SOA tasks in-process or out-of-process. ...
Testing JavaFX UIs: Part 1 of ? published on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:30:36 -0500
This is the first part of a series of blog entries where I plan to document our progress testing JavaFX UIs with FEST. ...
