The OpenStack project has received an extraordinary amount of support from the developer community since its unveiling four weeks ago.  The open source cloud platform has no performance blocks or any other artificial limitations that are sometimes implemented by "open core" projects.  Simon Phipps said, "it's probably the most significant advance for open source cloud computing...

Illumos, the project to make a fully open source version of Solaris, couldn't have arrived at a more perfect time.  The Illumos project lead Garrett D'Amore, a former Oracle Solaris engineer and current Nexenta employee, is pretty certain that the leaked memo about OpenSolaris' demise is genuine.  That's why today, D'Amore announced that Illumos is officially a fork of OpenSolaris, and not a...

Geertjan demonstrates a simple procedure for setting up unit tests, functional tests, and code coverage measurement for a NetBeans Platform application.



Unit testing - Code coverage - NetBeans - Programming - Java

A while back, I ran a poll here on JavaLobby to find out why people became software developers. The answers were varied, from computer science being a convenient choice, to money. But the most common themes were that developers "knew" that it was right for them when they started writing programs, and that people were interested and excited by the future of technology.

Over a period of time I have managed to get my hands on some of the most wonderful books on software development. It gives me a great feeling to have read these books as they share the author's hard earned experience over several years. I feel that I am just plain lucky to have discovered so many tips and tricks (or pitfalls) of software development so early on in my career, just by reading these...

If you have a Maven project of any size, particularly involving many modules or large numbers of dependencies, you have probably come across issues when updating your version numbers. Of course the Maven Release Plugin does a great job for updating version numbers as part of the automated release process, but there are times when it doesn't quite fit the bill, and version numbers are not...

I got an interesting email with questions regarding Java EE restrictions. Here are some of my answers: >"I have installed Glassfish 3.0.1 and am using NetBeans 6.9.1 for implementing stuff" Congrats - you saved about 5h :-). James Sugrue

We've all heard the term "Vendor Lock-in," but many don't know about the wide variety of ways in which this stealthy lock-in takes place.  Rigidity and frustration caused by this lock-in can mean high costs for enterprises and unhappiness for developers.  With new technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, vendors are finding more ways to force users to stay on their...

Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November.  That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a Chrome OS-based tablet to compete with the iPad's resounding success.  Google has recruited industry heavyweights HTC and Verizon to help produce this product.Solaris Veteran Leaves Oracle

Planning meetings, done right, are one of the best communication tools your team can use. It gets the right people in the room and forces the discussion down the right paths. If you skip this meeting, you're asking for trouble.What does it mean to do a planning meeting "right"? Article Type:  Opinion/Editorial

Virtual Machinery announces the release of the latest version of its JHawk Java metrics tool.



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A new development in the DevOps domain arrived this week in the continuous application monitoring, defect resolution solution called ReplayDirector.  Touted as the 'DVR of Software Production', ReplayDirector solves the "needle in a haystack" problem of issue tracking for enterprise Java.  This week, ReplayDirector 3.1 was released with the ability to recreate any level of logs from a...

The 1.3.6 release of Google App Engine has a large list of new features compared to the last version.  Both Python and Java programs now have support for multi-tenancy applications.  In addition, GAE now includes a high-performance image serving system, custom error pages, relaxed quotas for the datastore, and a few other new features.  

Everyone is talking about the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit; everything from compatibility tests to misusing open source technology has been alleged, but the reality is, this lawsuit is simply about patents - five of them to be exact. This article will help you put the patent part of this patent lawsuit into perspective.



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The Oracle lawsuit against Google is twofold. First, there are five alleged patent infringements. The second is the allegation of copyright infringements.



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SoftLogica announces WAPT 7.0, the new version of its load, stress and performance testing tool for web sites, web servers and applications with web interfaces.



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JasperReports 3.6.0 Development Cookbook demonstrates advanced features of JasperReports such as working with cross-tabs and bar graphs, designing multi-column, multi-page and summary reports, using mathematical and logical expressions, and generating jasper reports from Java Swing and Web (Tomcat) applications etc.



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Google Analytics provides a good API to query analytics data even more granular than you can get it in the GA Dashboard. Learn how to use the API and how to use the data in your own monitoring project.



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ISBN or ASIN:  1934356565 Book Author(s):  Ed Burnette Publisher:  Pragmatic Bookshelf Publication Date:  July 2010 Rating ...

I've just finished reading Spring Security 3, and I can honestly recommend it to any Spring Security user. Peter Mularien's book is well written and easy to follow. I can't say it's the best Spring Security book on the market - simply because it is the only one... so there is no comparison to make. But even without it, it is highly recommended and worth its price. ...