How often have you lived this scenario? Customers and managers beg, scream, and demand more features tomorrow. No matter what you tell them you can get done, they ask for more. So you work very hard... you do Whatever It Takes. You consume vast amounts of Red Bull, Mountain Dew, and other caffeine rich beverages. You eat cold pizza and food from a vending machine. You work late into the...

Selenium is an open source, robust set of tools that supports rapid development of test automation for web-based applications. In this post we will look at some code samples and how to create test plan with selenium.



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This the second delivery in a series of articles targeted at showing developers how db4o (an open source database that leverages today's object-oriented languages, systems, and mindset) is being used in several Android projects to avoid all the pitfalls and hassles of object-relational mapping while benefiting from an concise and straight forward way to evolve a domain model which, in the end,...

With PostgreSQL 9.0 approaching its final release, work on the next incremental version has already begun.  Today, PostgreSQL project developers released the first alpha of version 9.1.  This future release will add several major new features including compact representations of numeric types, and new XML-related functions.

Two months ago, the open core portal company, Liferay, unveiled a new UI meta-framework called Alloy UI along with a migration program and several other services.  Today's release of Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition contains enhanced social collaboration functionality, a built-in web CMS, and better development tools.  

Liferay 6EE touts a number of new features, but it's the social interaction facilities that are the most promising.



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Consider a domain, for example an online bookshop project that we call BuyCheapBooks. The Ubiquitous Language for this domain would talk about Book, Category, Popularity, ShoppingCart etc. James Sugrue

We continue with the Java Concurrency theme with semaphores. Semaphores are also a way to synchronize threads. James Sugrue

Cayenne is a powerful Java Object Relational Mapping framework. It’s open source and completely free. One of the main Cayenne distinctions is that it comes with cross-platform modeling GUI tools. This places Cayenne in the league of its own, making it a very attractive choice over both closed source commerical products and traditional “edit your own XML” open source solutions. ...

Since it has been introduced in JDK 1.5, I have loved the Executor abstraction over multi threaded execution. James Sugrue

He called it "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs."  Now Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has put his money where his mouth is and hired tennis buddy and HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd as Co-President of Oracle, squeezing out Charles Phillips.  There's just one problem, HP claims that Hurd has breached a protective contract preventing Hurd from sharing...

CouchDB creator Damien Katz has renamed his startup, originally Couchio, and launched a corresponding mobile development platform.  Couchio, which is a company that provides developer tools and hosting for Apache CouchDB, has now changed its name to CouchOne.  In conjunction with this announcement, CouchOne released CouchOne Mobile - a development platform based on CouchDB and optimized for...

Welcome to episode four of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste from our software development efforts. Waste elimination can be traced all the way back to the the mid-1900's, the birth of lean manufacturing, and the Toyota Production System (TPS). This is how Taiichi Ohno, the father of the TPS, described...

Prime Technology is glad to announce that PrimeFaces 2.2.M1 is released. This is a major release featuring core enhancements, new components, bug fixes and more.



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These days we are used to AJAX-intensive, sophisticated web frameworks. These frameworks provide us desktop style development into the Single Page Interface (SPI) paradigm. As you know there are two main types of frameworks, client-centric and server-centric. Each approach has pros and cons. Subtitle:  Testing the performance of Java...

Recent forays into GWT have enlightened me to this wonderful beast, but how do you apply it to the real world?

JBoss recently released the next version of their business logic integration platform, which is now split into five sub projects.  The main focus for Drools 5.1 has been to provide better consumability for users with declarative services based on Spring, Apache Camel, and Apache CXF.  Project developers have also impvoed the BPMN 2 implementation and added an improved Rete algorithm for reduced...

VMware employee Salvatore Sanfilippo has been hard at work developing Redis 2.0 and 2.2 in parallel.  Today the Google Code page announced the first stable release of 2.0.  Version 2.2 is approaching the feature freeze stage.  GORM for Redis was also announced today.

I'm looking at build tools for a fairly large project (mostly Java with some Jython), and pretty dissatisfied with all of the standard options out there. Gradle looks like it might be able to do the things I want. I am wondering, is anybody out there is using it who could talk about their experiences with it? Another interesting project, though it looks quite young, is Raven.

You think Spring is to heavy? That's why you like to use Guice, but missing the Classpath Scanning-Feature? Read this Article! :)



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