This article shows how to copy multiple properties from one bean to another with a single line of code, even if the property names in the source and target beans are different. Copying properties from one bean is quite common especially if you are working with a lot of POJOs, for example working with JAXB objects. Lets walk through the following example where we want to copy all properties...

The first beta for the next version of JBoss' Weld is here.  It has been approximately six months since JBoss released Weld 1.0.1, which added support for running on Google AppEngine.  The new beta for Weld 1.1 features about 60 bugfixes and new EJB 3.1 features.

Kevin Rose announced that he's stepping down as the interim CEO at Digg and raising Matt Williams up to the position.  Williams has worked in a variety of management roles at Amazon and GM.  He was also the founder and CEO of LiveBid.com.  From the comments below the Digg blog post, you notice the seething hostility of a Digg community that is still bitter over the revamped site (Digg 4.0). ...

QuickBuild 3 is released to work tightly with issue tracking systems to provide an integrated view of issues, builds and SCM changes. No longer worry about which issues are fixed in a particular build, or which build a particular issue is fixed in. QuickBuild tracks these information for you automatically! The release management functionality is improved considerably with the ability to use next unreleased version in issue tracker as next build version, and push built versions into issue tracker as released versions.



Configuration management - Issue tracking system - Release management - Build Management - Bug Tracking

Mule ESB 3.0, the popular open source enterprise service bus, is one step closer to GA later this month.



Open source - Enterprise service bus - Programming - Business - Languages

It didn't take VMware's SpringSource division long to integrate and wrap up some of their most recently acquired technologies into a bundling called "vFabric".  In reference to today's announcement at VMworld, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson said that vFabric was not only a new brand, but also a culmination of Spring and VMware's joint efforts since the merging of the two companies. ...

ZK is the most proven Ajax + Mobile framework available, designed to maximize an enterprise’s operational efficiency and minimize development time and cost.



Ajax - JavaScript - Programming - Languages - Scripts

Recently I've been looking into moving from Continuum to Hudson. Hudson sounds like a more complete solution to me and seems more popular. However, both solutions seem to share a similar feature set, including distributed builds. Maybe I'm swayed towards Hudson because of their mobile client and IDE integration.I'd be interested to see what CI solution you...

This tutorial will demonstrate a pattern for creating CRUD applications in JSF and Java EE 6. While this is not the only way of implementing this mechanism, it does promote re-use and can give you essentially zero code CRUD pages requiring just the view code. The goal is to provide a single structure that provides the particular feature of being both stateless or conversational where we might...

Clojure sets and maps are functions. Since they are functions, you don't need functions to get values out of them. You can use the map or set as the example below shows. James Sugrue

Generics are one of the most controversial Java language features. Generics allows a type or method to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety, making Java a fully statically typed language. In this article, I am going to talk about five things that every Java developer should know about Generics.Generics are implemented using Type Erasure In Java a class or...

Have you ever been significantly impeded by bad code?  (Uncle) Bob Martin, the CEO of Object Mentor, asked this question at the NDC 2010 conference this year in his first of two major presentations on the subjects of testing and code cleanliness.  If you, or some developer you know is throwing bad code over the wall or passing it off to you, these two presentations will be a blessing to those...

The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers.  This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as well as more human-like interaction capabilities for computers.  Hopefully this means that some day our computers may be more friendly, literally.Ruby on Rails 3 Pulls Into the Station

Welcome to episode three 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...

There are two things you must know in order to effectively create a roadmap. Although we'll be dealing with a technical roadmap, this applies to anyone wanting to drive change for yourself or a team.Where you are now (current location)Where you want to go (destination) Article Type:  How-to

Fresh out of stealth-mode, the developers of CloudBees have announced their Java cloud platform to the world.  The best part about this is PaaS, now in beta, is the inclusion of Hudson-based continuous integration.  The service is built with ISVs in mind and it strives to be a true cloud-native infrastructure, not just a packaging of existing products with a cloud stamp on it.  The CloudBees...

Company cites Oracle's litigation over Android as a lawsuit 'against open source'



Open source - JavaOne - Google - Joshua Bloch - Oracle

JFrog announces the new Bamboo-Artifactory plugin with added support for Maven 3 (beta) and Ivy buids.



Apache Maven - Bamboo - Plug-in - Business - Forestry

James Gosling has just launched a few t-shirt designs to hold Oracle to their pledge to free Java. The CafePress store has a number of different tshirts all with the tagline "Just Free It. Hold Oracle to their Pledge", along with some mugs, buttons and magnets.

I'm bored of reinventing the wheel. Everytime I need a state machine to ensure my states traverse only valid transitions, I find myself either not bothering, because I trust my coding (and write all the necessary unit tests of course), or writing very similar code over again. James Sugrue