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Whatever Happened to Programming?

Mar 11, 2010 9:01pm

Mike Taylor writes two insightful essays about programming today. Are we stuck in a tedious loop of gluing APIs together? What happened to the creative aspects of programming? Check out these thought-provoking essays! ...

Developing Java on middleware and cloud: Virtual Appliances

Mar 11, 2010 9:01pm

From Java EE to Google App Engine to GigaSpaces, developing against a middleware or "infrastructure" API is well established in the Java world.<br>With the (re-)advent of virtualization, it is now becoming feasible to work with custom environments.<br>We'll look at the state of cloud and middleware deployment tooling and examine possible...

The Single Page Interface Manifesto

Mar 11, 2010 8:56pm

The objective of The Single Page Interface Manifesto is to promote the progressive disappearance of the use of pages not only in web applications also in dynamic web sites with SEO, bookmarking and page based requisites in general. ...

JFrog and Gradle to collaborate on fuller build system offering

Mar 9, 2010 12:52pm

Enterprise build system, Gradle Inc. and repository specialist JFrog have formed a collaborative relationship to work toward a series of offerings that the companies say will enhance user productivity. The companies will begin packaging JFrogs repository manager, Artifactory and Gradle together as a more complete build offering. ...

soapUI adds testing support for JMS, AMF and databases

Mar 9, 2010 11:30am

Web services testing software vendor eviware has released soapUI 3.5, which now supports the testing of JMS, AMF and databases. Free and open-source, soapUI is a desktop application used in inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating and testing Web services. The interface is designed to feel like the IDEs that are already...

Application Performance: Expert webcasts now available on-demand

Mar 9, 2010 10:36am

Did you miss our Application Performance Management virtual seminar in February? In these expert presentations discover the best techniques for perfecting performance builds and for finding, diagnosing and fixing performance bugs. Gain instant access to the latest tools for mastering performance management across the lifecycle. ...

5 Article Series on Reloading Java Classes

Mar 9, 2010 7:24am

Five articles on classloaders, objects, classes, redeploying, OSGi, Tapestry 5, HotSwap, JRebel and other aspects of Java class reloading and turnaround. ...

Relax: You Can (Mostly) Stop Using Java Interfaces For Testing

Mar 9, 2010 7:07am

Are you tired of turning every non-trivial class into an interface, and then create an "Impl" that actually does the work when mocking objects for testing? Do you know about JMock's ClassImposterizer? It allows you to mock instances without calling the constructor of the mocked class, ultimately helping you...

XNIO: A Better NIO For Java

Mar 8, 2010 7:21am

Free your apps from the bugs and headaches of Java NIO. XNIO offers NIO capability but in a hassle-free manner and vastly simplifies the opening of channels with support for SSL and virtual channels within the same API. Learn more about this open source project from JBoss and...