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  • IBM and SAP Open Source their JVM Diagnostics Tools

    IBM recently announced their Java diagnostic tool suite that includes the products Dump Analyzer For Java, Extensible Verbose Toolkit (EVTK) for Garbage Collection (GC), and Java Lock Analyzer (JLA) tools. SAP also made an announcement last month about their heap analyzer tool called SAP Memory Analyzer and the tool's integration with Eclipse IDE.

  • Qi4j introduces Composite Oriented Programming

    "Classes are dead, long live interfaces" was declared by Rickard Oberg at Oredev this week where he announced Qi4j. Qi4j brings the new idea of Composite Oriented Programing, in which is no behaviour at all is put in a class, instead the class becomes a 'composite' of mixins and interfaces declared on the class via annotations.

  • Microsoft announces Microsoft ESP

    Today Microsoft announced plans for a new a visual simulation platform, Microsoft ESP, which uses gaming technology to enable use of simulation for both learning and decision-making.

  • Snippet Editor for Visual Studio 2005/2008

    Bill McCarthy has updated his Snippet Editor to add support for Visual Studio 2008. Snippets are code templates that can be quickly accessed from the keyboard. Snippets include instructions for tasks ranging from creating a property or new exception type through esoteric tasks like dialing a phone number using a modem connected to a serial port.

  • Is a picture always worth a thousand words?

    <p>Is a picture always worth a thousand words?</p> <p>In his recent article, &#8220;Why we write code and don&#8217;t just draw diagrams&#8221;, Dean Wampler argues that in software development the opposite is more often true. </p>

  • WebTest vs. Selenium: Real and Simulated Browser Testing

    Choosing between functional testing tools that drive a real web browser, like Selenium, and those that simulate a browser, like Canoo WebTest? Marc Guillemot compared the two, and in his opinion, WebTest wins, with a score of 13-5.

  • ThoughtWorks Releases Mingle 1.1

    Mingle R1.1 is out, just 3 months after after the first release, packed with new functionality driven by user feedback from the launch and beta period. In December R1.2 will be released.

  • JavaRebel: Dynamic Classloading in the JVM

    JavaRebel brings Ruby and PHP style dynamic reloading of classes to Java. While it currently has several limitations it can speed up development dramatically.

  • Atlassian's Pete Moore Discusses The New Features of Clover 2

    Atlassian fresh off their acquisition of Cenqua earlier this year, has released Clover 2. Clover is a code coverage tool for Java. InfoQ caught up with Atlassian's Pete Moore to discuss Clover 2 and the recent Atlassian acquisition.

  • Interface21 and Tasktop Discuss The Upcoming Spring Tool Suite

    Interface21 and Tasktop Technologies recently announced they would be collaborating on the Spring Tool Suite. InfoQ sat down with both companies to discuss the application and how it relates to the existing Spring IDE.

  • Netbeans Ruby Support: A Detailed Walkthrough by Roman Strobl

    Sun has put a large investment into Ruby in the last year with JRuby and the addition of Ruby language support to their Netbeans IDE. InfoQ will be featuring a series of articles by Netbeans Evangelist Roman Strobl exploring the new Ruby features of Netbeans. The first article takes a look at code completion, debugging, and refactoring support.

  • Cory Foy on Database Unit Testing

    Cory Foy walks developers step-by-step through unit testing logic implemented at the database layer.

  • F# to Be Integrated With Visual Studio

    Somasegar has announced that F# will be integrated with Visual Studio, joining Managed C++, C#, and Visual Basic as a first class on the .NET platform.

  • IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Adds Spring/Hibernate Support, Eclipse Interoperability, and Maven Integration

    Jetbrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 7.0. This version rounds out support for many popular Java technologies (Hibernate, Spring, and Maven) while adding support for additional languages such as Groovy and Ruby.

  • Selenium Grid: Web Testing in Parallel

    Pervasive user-interface/acceptance testing can be a drag on test and therefore build speed. Selenium Grid offers the ability to run Selenium tests in parallel on one machine or on a farm of machines in a reliable, easy-to-use way. InfoQ speaks with the Selenium Grid team.

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