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Sun Details The Schedule for Future Java Releases
Jean Elliot, Director of Product Marketing for the Java SE Platform at Sun, was interviewed to talk about where Java SE is now and where it is going. They discussed the current Java SE roadmap, with Java SE 6 due in December and Java SE 7 in 2008. Other topics included open sourcing Java SE and the end-of-life of Java SE 1.3.1.
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Roman Strobl on Enhanced JEE Support in Netbeans 5.5
Version 5.5 of the Netbeans IDE was released over the weekend with enhanced JEE5 support. New releases of the Mobility (for JME) and Visual Web (Ajax and JavaServer Faces) packs are also available. InfoQ sat down with Netbeans evangelist Roman Strobl to discuss the release.
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Alex Russell on Dojo 0.4
The Dojo Foundation just released version 0.4 of their JavaScript toolkit with key improvements of accessibility, a 2D vector graphics API, improved internationalization support, and inline API documentation. InfoQ sat with Alex Russell, project lead of the Dojo Toolkit to discuss the new release.
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Danube Releases ScrumWorks v1.8
ScrumWorks, the free Agile project tracking software from Danube Technologies, this week announced the release of version 1.8, which adds a Product Import feature to bring existing projects into the tool, a number of customer-requested changes and significant performance enhancements.
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NetKernel 3.1 Released with Ruby and JSON Support
1060 Research released NetKernel 3.1 last week. NetKernel is a resource-oriented software development and execution environment. It allows the integration of services written in a variety of languages (including Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, XSL and others) through the use of URIs. New features in NetKernel 3.1 include Ruby support, JSON as a native resource type, and updated documentation.
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Interview: Ivar Jacobson on the UP, UML, MDA, and the future of methodologies
Ivar Jacobson, one of the creators of the Unified Process, UML, and use cases, introduces his vision for a next generation development methodology that is both agile and comprehensive like the Unified Process (UP). His vision includes 'Intelligent Agents' which make customization recommendations based on tool usage patterns. Jacobson also talks about his views on UML, MDA, AOP, and the future.
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Record and Playback Registry Changes
Jon Galloway has released a tool that allows developers to record and playback registry changes.
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Marathon 1.0: Automating Swing UI Testing with Jython
Marathon, a GUI testing tool that has languished at a .9 release for two years is back with a new 1.0 release. Jalian Systems has picked up the Marathon project and is working to build a product on top of it. Marathon, focused on end-user testing, allows you to record a sequence of actions in a Swing UI and save them as a testcase.
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Agile Tooling Survey - What Is Your Team Using?
Pete Behrens of TrailRidge Consulting wants to know what kind of tooling Agile teams are using, and not just software engineering tools: also requirements management, project management, acceptance testing and remote collaboration software. This is a quick, vendor-independent survey.
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Rails Live CD 0.2.1 Released
Brian Ketelsen releases an update to the popular Rails Live CD Rails development and deployment environment.
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Bringing Eclipse RCP to Cellphones
The embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) for Eclipse has recently released version 1.0. eRCP provides many of the same features for J2ME environments that the RCP does for the desktop, including OSGI and extension points, a version of SWT called eSWT, and eUpdate to provide dynamic updates. eRCP attempts to solve some of J2ME's shortcomings.
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Agile at Microsoft: Developing XML Notepad
InfoQ had the opportunity to interview Chris Lovett of Microsoft's XML team regarding XML Notepad and its development process. XMLNotepad is a free XML editor written in C# with features like a search tool that supports RegEx and XPath, an XSLT transformation results view, and a schema validator. The interview is about software development processes used to build the product.
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Creating Ruby Style Migrations In Java
Database migrations are a critical piece of any project. There are several open-source tools out there which tackle the problem. Available tools include Migrator (a set of Ant tasks for doing database migration in the style of ActiveRecord, a part of the Ruby on Rails platform), Scriptella (mainly an ETL tool but schema migrations are possible), and DdlUtils (database independent migrations).
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Var/Option Infer: New Syntax for C# and VB 9
Microsoft is considering several new language features for C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 including type inference. As this may result in breaking changes, a new mode called Option Infer is also being considered for VB.
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Changing the way you work with Mylar
Mylar is an Eclipse plug-in that changes Eclipse into a task focused UI. Mylar lets you define tasks and then it associates information (such as classes, methods, or compilation errors) with it, based on your activities. Mik Kersten, the project lead for Mylar, has recently published a two part article on IBM's developerWorks site.