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RC1 of Spring BlazeDS Integration is Available

andi — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:19:04 +0000

Spring BlazeDS Integration is a new addition to the Spring portfolio, and a component of the complete Spring Web stack. This project’s purpose is to make it easier to build Spring-powered Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex as the front-end client. It aims to achieve this purpose by providing first-class support for using the open source Adobe BlazeDS project and its powerful remoting and messaging facilities in combination with the familiar Spring programming model.

Visit : http://www.springsource.org/node/1393

XDepend RC1 is now available

andi — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:03:29 +0000

The all NDepend team is glad to announce that the Java edition, namely XDepend, is now available as a Release Candidate 1 (RC1). XDepend integrates almost all advance features of NDepend such as build comparison, import of code coverage data or linking between source files and code element definitions. We will soon give you all the tips and tricks to take the best out of XDepend and show you how it will definitely help you in your daily work.

The XDepend solution :

Extract the code structure of your application
Assess quickly components given different metrics (Number of Lines of Code, Cyclomatic Complexity)
Apprehend dependencies and navigate through artifacts
Take advantage of metrics and integrated anti-pattern detection
Handle efficiently the evolution of your code by comparing different versions

Cutting Edge Features :

A readable and intuitive interface with graphical dynamic displays
A great responsiveness thanks to an in-memory based model
A SQL-Like Code Query Language with autocompletion support
Quality control rules extracted from best practices and fully customizable
Enhance your quality level by adding rules right into your code

Visit : http://www.xdepend.com/

AribaWeb – A Rails Killer Comes

andi — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:51:06 +0000

The AribaWeb team is proud to announce that they are releasing the first (and likely only) release candidate before the GA release of AribaWeb 5.0: the first major Open Source release of AribaWeb!

AribaWeb the premier full-stack component-based web application framework:

Auto Ajax
Instant App
Live Edit & X-Ray
Proven Full Stack

Visit : http://aribaweb.org/

Groovy 1.6 is released

andi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:16:33 +0000

Finally the Groovy development team and SpringSource are announcing the final release of Groovy 1.6. Obviously, 1.6 is a very important milestone for the project, with several great new features and improvements:

great runtime performance improvements
multiple assignments- optional return in if/else and try/catch blocks
AST transformations and all the provided transformation annotations like @Singleton, @Lazy, @Immutable, @Delegate and friends
the Grape module and dependency system and its @Grab transformation
various Swing builder improvements, thanks to the Swing / Griffon (http://griffon.codehaus.org) team as well as several Swing console improvements
the integration of JMX builder JSR-223 scripting engine built-in
various metaprogramming improvements, like the EMC DSL, per-instance metaclasses even for POJOs, and runtime mixins

An article will be published in the coming days on InfoQ and GroovyMag coming back on all those features and novelties with more details.

You can download Groovy 1.6 at the usual place: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download

Visit : http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/02/18/The+final+version+of+Groovy+1.6+is+released

Dummy’s Guide to Wicket Featured on Netbeans TV

andi — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:15:22 +0000

This is an introduction to the Wicket framework, focusing on its distinguishing features, how to get started, and ending with a demo showing how to use it in NetBeans IDE.

Visit : http://netbeans.tv/screencasts/Dummy%27s-Guide-to-Wicket-438/

SailFin 1.0 Final Release is now available

andi — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:27:42 +0000

Sailfin 1.0 is based on GlassFish v2.1 (Java EE 5) and SIP Servlet API 1.1 (JSR 289). In addition it bundles value add features such as the following:

Converged Load Balancer.
Administration and Monitoring support for the SIP Servlet Container.
Tooling support with NetBeans for developing and testing SIP Servlet Applications.
Support for custom application router deployment.
Extensive load testing.

About SailFin
Project SailFin is based on robust and scalable SIP servlets technology on top of a deployment-quality, Java EE-based GlassFish. We are working towards achieving JSR 289 compatibility, adding high- availability and clustering features, and integrating with existing GlassFish services.

JSR 289 updates the SIP Servlets API and defines a standard application programming model to mix SIP Servlets and Java EE components. Java EE services, such as web services, persistence, security, and transactions, enable faster development of smarter communications-enabled applications.

Visit : https://sailfin.dev.java.net/downloads/v1-b60g.html

Comparison of Hibernate, Toplink, OpenJPA, and Eclipselink

andi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:11:39 +0000

Santiago Rodriguez wrote a relatively simple program which executes some queries and inserts in a MySQL database through JPA. Four fixed-time tests were done with exactly the same code, just changing the JPA implementation library and the persistence.xml. This article is a response to the lack of information on the net about the performance differences among the 4 most well known Java Persistence API (JPA) implementations: Toplink Essentials, EclipseLink, Hibernate and OpenJPA. Besides results and conclusions, the full test code is also available in case you want to repeat the test yourself. For the tests performed for this article, nothing except JPA was used. No web pages, no web or application server. Just java threads, JPA and MySQL.

Visit : http://terrazadearavaca.blogspot.com/2008/12/jpa-implementations-comparison.html

Web Stack now available for Solaris 10 and RedHat Linux

andi — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:50:04 +0000

This project is closely associated with a the OpenSolaris SFWNV Project. In a sense, WebStack can be viewed as a sub-project of the SFWNV focused specifically on web tier components. The code delivered by WebStack project is in fact part of the SFW consolidation.

The WebStack project delivers and maintains all web tier components of OpenSolaris, such as Apache, PHP and Squid – with more to come.

Lower level libraries utilized by WebStack components (examples include curl, tidy, pcre among others) may be delivered either by WebStack or SFW, depending on the scope and general utility of each library.

Visit Webstack at Opensolaris
Download here

ZK Studio 0.9.2 is Available Now

andi — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:46:55 +0000

ZK Studio 0.9.2 introduced new features like Style Designer, and Theme Manager. Developers can customize the style of user interface by setting properties, and see the result in seconds.

Key features in ZK Studio 0.9.2 include :
Library Quick Switch
The ZUL Visual Editor can not only preview the result via the current project that the zul file reside in, but also the ZK packages that configured in ZK Package setting in Preference, you can easily change the applied package of ZUL Visual Editor by a drop-down menu that invoked by the triangular button on its toolbar.
ZK Style Designer
The ZK Style Designer (*Note: for ZK v3.5.2 and above only.) provides a friendly GUI interface to edit CSS styles for various ZUML components, used with ZUL Visual Editor, you can see customized result immediately.

Visit ZK Homepage

RichFaces 3.3.0.GA has been released

andi — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:36:05 +0000

RichFaces is a rich component library for JSF and an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business application development. The RichFaces components come ready to use out-of-the-box, so developers can immediately save time in taking advantage of component features to create Web applications that provide greatly improved user experience more reliably and more quickly. RichFaces also includes strong support for the skinnability of JSF applications. RichFaces also takes full advantage of the benefits of the JSF framework including lifecycle, validation, and conversion facilities, along with the management of static and dynamic resources.

RichFaces differs from other AJAX approaches by enabling page-oriented AJAX support instead of the traditional component-oriented support. This means you can define an event in the page that invokes a particular AJAX request and then you can also define those areas of the page that need to be synchronized with the JSF Component Tree after this particular AJAX request is processed on the server.

Download Richfaces 3.3.0 : http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossrichfaces/downloads
Online Demo (Redhat account required): http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/