He warned us about Oracle.  Now Johnathan Schwartz has washed his hands of it and gotten his first job after leaving his last position as the CEO of Sun Microsystems.  Schwartz has joined the board of Taleo, a vendor of cloud-based talent management solutions.  Schwartz might have gotten the nod because of his early cloud work with Sun.  Apple Patches JailbreakMe Hole; Jailbreakers Make Their...

Oracle has just filed a lawsuit againt Google for patent and copyright infringement related to Android's use of Java."In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement," said Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman.

JBoss' Java Server Faces testing framework, JSFUnit, has just released version 1.3 with a couple of new features and one significant fix that now allows integration with another JBoss project - Arquillian.  For those who don't know about Arquillian, it basically abstracts away container lifecycle and development from test logic so that developers can easily develop a broad range of integration...

If you take a look on the Solr wiki to find out when the next version is going to be released (you'd assume it's version 1.5), you find a message saying that Solr 1.5 is "not likely to ever be released."  Before you start crying, you need to look at the slides from Yonik Seeley's presentation at the Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010  (Seeley is the creator of Apache Solr and a co-founder at...

Have you ever been on a team of aces – the best of the best – and failed?  Have you ever been on a team that consisted of average people, found your rhythm and exceeded expectations again and again?  What is behind this?

(My) definition of the architect's role: "Software Architect is someone who is able to break down customers (=product owners, sponsors etc.) vision in more or less fine grained software artifacts." I prefer the term "vision" over requirements, because most of the time requirements happen to be unstable and the customer actually...

As someone who's seen the benefits of the approach, I'm a huge believer in test driven development. It adds a level of quality and maturity to the field of software development, yet it's still not a widespread practice across development projects. When it comes to a choice between the features, time and quality, it's always the quality that suffers. We don't want to add extra time for testing and...

After launching a lot of benchmarks for the file copy benchmark and always generating the graphs from the results in Excel, I realized that I was losing a lot of time. So like any Java developer, I decided to create a little tool that would do the work automatically for me. James Sugrue

Have you seen the infinite scrolling of content in some web pages? For example, in DZone.com when you scroll the page to the bottom, new links will be loaded automatically and it’ll give you the illusion that the page scrolls infinitely. Another good example is that Bing’s Image Search. James Sugrue

I'll admit it, the first thing I like to do when learning a new language is fire up a REPL. However, I'm usually ready for the next step after typing in a few numbers, strings and defining a function or two.What feels like centuries ago, Mike Clark wrote an article about using unit testing to learn a new language. Mike was ahead of his time. This blog entry should help you if you want to follow...

Defne is a lightweight development platform for Java EE web applications. It provides usable libraries to develop Java EE web applications easily and powerful based on Java EE technologies. Every component library of the Defne framework enables developers use them via Dependency Injection, CDI. We will provide built-in IoC container in future 1.0.3 release that will be based on Apache Tomcat and...

Over half of the developers polled in a recent survey by Embarcadero Technologies say "no," they don't have enough time to learn that new language, or understand that new technology.  On the other hand, developers are getting more money, but are the hidden costs really worth it?

According to a security firm, the first Trojan virus has infected Android phones this month.  Once the normal looking application installs, it starts texting premium rate phone numbers and criminals actually end up collecting the charges to the victims' accounts.  So far the virus is confined to Russia.First International Agile Certification

Determined not to make the same mistakes that Sun did when they bit off more than they could chew in some of their roadmaps, Oracle presented a more moderate amount of data today to outline their plans for the Solaris 11 operating system and SPARC systems.  This kind of transparency in planning has been rare for many of Oracle's acquired open source projects, and almost non-existent for projects...

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.  -- Inigo Montoya

What's next for Android? We'll find out soon. Google have announced a special event  on Thursday evening to unveil "a couple of cool new mobile features.".With the amount of momentum around Android at the moment, and the iPhone 4's reception issue, perhaps this will be the killer blow from Google in the battle of mobile operating systems.

For a long time Java developers used in-house developed solutions to monitor the file system for changes. James Sugrue

One of the things that I've noticed as we've started writing more client side code is that I'm much more likely to look for a library which solves a problem than I would be with server side code. A requirement that we've had on at least the last 3 or 4 projects I've worked on is to do client side validation on the values entered into a form by the user. ...

I love removing code. The more I remove, the lesser is the surface area for bugs to bite. Just now I removed a bunch of classes, made unnecessary by Scala 2.8.0 type system. Consider this set of abstractions, elided for demonstration purposes .. James Sugrue

It's a long time since I started to using the H2 Database Engine as an embedded database in JTheque and other projects. This post is a presentation of this database engine and some information about its utilization.H2 is a pure Java database. It can work as an embedded database or in server mode. The developers of the database have ensured there is a very small footprint for this database;...