Today we are witnessing a great bit of excitement with the NoSQL movement. Call it NoSQL (~SQL) or NOSQL (Not Only SQL), the movement has a mission. Not all applications need to store and process data the same way, and the storage should also be architected accordingly. Till today we have always been force-fitting a single hammer to drive every nail. Irrespective of how we process data in...

SpringSource have just announced tcServer Spring Edition, giving develpers and operators better visibility into their Spring applications deployed into cloud environments. tcServer, based on Tomcat is a popular choice for developers who want to take advantage of the Spring supported application server, and with this announcement, it gives a more compelling reason to use tcServer for your...

From Java EE to Google App Engine to GigaSpaces, the idea of developing against a middleware or "infrastructure" API is well established in the Java world. James Sugrue

This article shows you step by step how to cache your entire tomcat web application with Squid reverse Proxy without writing any Java code. James Sugrue

Mark Wilden pointed me to a post he's written about his experience pair programming at Pivotal Labs where he makes some interesting although not uncommon observations. When you pair program, you're effectively joined at the hip with your pair. You can't pair if only one of you is there. James Sugrue

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun  

Today is a major milestone in the evolution of the web as an open development platform.  Appcelerator's newly unveiled Titanium 1.0 framework lets web developers build native applications for the iPhone and Android phones using nothing but web languages.  This means that Titanium applications can leverage any functionality of the iPhone or Android operating systems without going through a...

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.

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 familiar to developers.

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It's been a long time since our JBoss ClassLoading article. During this time we've been quite busy with the new Microcontainer 2.2.x version series, which is already included in the latest JBossAS6_M2.In this article, I am going to talk about our new Virtual Deployment Framework (VDF).

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

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 write and test your code faster.

Frank Wierzbicki is the Jython project lead and a lead developer at Sauce Labs.  He's been working on Jython as an open source project since 2004 and using Jython since 1999. After a year at Sun, Wierzbicki now works for Sauce Labs, a startup that builds a commercially-supported version of the popular Selenium web app testing system.  Sauce Labs also provides on-demand cloud analytics to run...

Today, Terracotta is releasing new versions of Ehcache and the Terracotta infrastructure.  Terracotta's open source products offer enterprise-level capabilities that you might find in a high priced proprietary product like Oracle Coherence.  Today's bundle release, which is appropriately named "Project Darwin", contains Terracotta version 3.2.1, Terracotta Express Web Sessions, and a...

When I discussed VersionControlTools I said that it was an unscientific agglomeration of opinion. As I was doing it I realized that I could add some spurious but mesmerizing numbers to my analysis by doing a survey. Google's spreadsheet makes the mechanics of conducting a survey really simple, so I couldn't resist.References Reference:  ...

Today we're going to take a look at the Visitor pattern. Of all of the patterns that I've used so far, Visitor is by far the most powerful and convenient.   Vistors in the Real World A real world analogy always helps with the understanding of a design pattern. One example I have seen for the Visitor pattern in action is a taxi example, where the customer calls orders a taxi, which arrives at...

n my current project, I need to launch an external application and maybe execute some additional commands on this external application. Due to the very nature of the project, the whole system will always be run on Mac OS X. So I thought, "why not use AppleScript"? Turns out using AppleScript to launch applications is fairly easy, all you have to do is tell application "name of...

In a recent post, XebiaLabs' CTO Vincent Partington discussed some important organizational topics you will want to address while introducing deployment automation using Deployit. James Sugrue

Someone recently asked me what technologies I would recommend for the next Enterprise Web Project. Like a good little software developer, my initial reaction was "I would have to see the requirements first". And of course that is true. As much as possible I try to fight the tendency to fit requirements around the technology, because I know that I am wont to be enamoured by the latest...