Enterprise build system, Gradle Inc. and repository specialist JFrog have formed a collaborative relationship to work toward a series of offerings that the companies say will enhance user productivity. The companies will begin packaging JFrogs repository manager, Artifactory and Gradle together as a more complete build offering.

Web services testing software vendor eviware has released soapUI 3.5, which now supports the testing of JMS, AMF and databases. Free and open-source, soapUI is a desktop application used in inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating and testing Web services. The interface is designed to feel like the IDEs that are already familiar to developers.

Did you miss our Application Performance Management virtual seminar in February? In these expert presentations discover the best techniques for perfecting performance builds and for finding, diagnosing and fixing performance bugs. Gain instant access to the latest tools for mastering performance management across the lifecycle.

It's been a long time since our JBoss ClassLoading article. During this time we've been quite busy with the new Microcontainer 2.2.x version series, which is already included in the latest JBossAS6_M2.In this article, I am going to talk about our new Virtual Deployment Framework (VDF).

Five articles on classloaders, objects, classes, redeploying, OSGi, Tapestry 5, HotSwap, JRebel and other aspects of Java class reloading and turnaround.

Are you tired of turning every non-trivial class into an interface, and then create an "Impl" that actually does the work when mocking objects for testing? Do you know about JMock's ClassImposterizer? It allows you to mock instances without calling the constructor of the mocked class, ultimately helping you write and test your code faster.

Frank Wierzbicki is the Jython project lead and a lead developer at Sauce Labs.  He's been working on Jython as an open source project since 2004 and using Jython since 1999. After a year at Sun, Wierzbicki now works for Sauce Labs, a startup that builds a commercially-supported version of the popular Selenium web app testing system.  Sauce Labs also provides on-demand cloud analytics to run...

Yesterday morning the USERS mailing list of GlassFish had a thread asking How to start and run GlassFishV3 without Netbeans... so, Alexis wrote and posted a quick Survival Guide on using GlassFish without an IDE .

From question to documentation in a few hours: self-publishing, no webmaster to contact, all links to online documentation... and no lawyer to check with :-)

Today, Terracotta is releasing new versions of Ehcache and the Terracotta infrastructure.  Terracotta's open source products offer enterprise-level capabilities that you might find in a high priced proprietary product like Oracle Coherence.  Today's bundle release, which is appropriately named "Project Darwin", contains Terracotta version 3.2.1, Terracotta Express Web Sessions, and a...

When I discussed VersionControlTools I said that it was an unscientific agglomeration of opinion. As I was doing it I realized that I could add some spurious but mesmerizing numbers to my analysis by doing a survey. Google's spreadsheet makes the mechanics of conducting a survey really simple, so I couldn't resist.References Reference:  ...

Today we're going to take a look at the Visitor pattern. Of all of the patterns that I've used so far, Visitor is by far the most powerful and convenient.   Vistors in the Real World A real world analogy always helps with the understanding of a design pattern. One example I have seen for the Visitor pattern in action is a taxi example, where the customer calls orders a taxi, which arrives at...

n my current project, I need to launch an external application and maybe execute some additional commands on this external application. Due to the very nature of the project, the whole system will always be run on Mac OS X. So I thought, "why not use AppleScript"? Turns out using AppleScript to launch applications is fairly easy, all you have to do is tell application "name of...

In a recent post, XebiaLabs' CTO Vincent Partington discussed some important organizational topics you will want to address while introducing deployment automation using Deployit. James Sugrue

Someone recently asked me what technologies I would recommend for the next Enterprise Web Project. Like a good little software developer, my initial reaction was "I would have to see the requirements first". And of course that is true. As much as possible I try to fight the tendency to fit requirements around the technology, because I know that I am wont to be enamoured by the latest...

Former Novell CTO Becomes W3C CEO

This week, we're delighted to have Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol helping to answer questions about their new book Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java Persistence API. They will hang out in the Object Relational Mapping forum. Or check it out on your mobile device.

The promotion starts Tuesday, March 9th 2010 and will end on Friday, March 12th 2010.

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The voting for Eclipse Community Award finalists ended on February 26th and now the finalists have been announced.  DZone's own James Sugrue has made it into the Finalist category along with the other three nominees for "Top Contributor".  

Indeed.COM shows a spike in the number of GlassFish-related jobs around end of January (snapshot, live); the date roughly coincides with the reassuring noises from Oracle on CiC. The absolute job numbers are still small, but I expect them to continue to grow, specially as we release our detailed Roadmap.

In other good adoption indicators:
• Mail traffic at USERS@GlassFish ; see MarkMail
• Google Trends (snapshot, live).

And, before you ask; the roadmap is very close...

The data center automation tool vendor, rPath, recently added support for open source configuration management tools including Reductive Labs' Puppet, Cfengine, and Opscode's Chef.  rPath is also working on native support for configuration management, which will include a config management engine.  This engine will be developed as a part of the company's new Project Javelin, and it should be...

R.I.P. Felipe Gaúcho: DZone MVB & Tireless Java Advocate The DZone team was very sad to read the news that Felipe Gaúcho had passed away this weekend. Felipe has been an active member of JavaLobby for many years, as well as being a key JUG leader.