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Spring 2 Final Approching with new support for OSGi, JPA, Asynch JMS
Spring 2.0 final is set to come out on September 26th - a few months after the original launch dates. InfoQ spoke to the Spring team to find out what's been going on. Spring has been updated with JPA final spec support, asychronous JMS, the new JSP form tag library, and a collaboration with IBM, BEA, and Oracle to bring OSGi support to Spring.
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Ultimate Productivity Tools List for Developers
In honor of Labor Day today in the United States, here is a list of the top productivity tools for those who labor at software development in .NET: Scott Hanselman's ultimate productivity tools for developers. Many .NET developers know about Lutz Roeder's Reflector (included in the Big Ten Life and Work-changing Utilities), but some of the others are less well-known, and all are worth exploring.
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InfoQ Article: When and How to Formalize Business Rules
The terms "Agile software development" and "Business Agility" are confusing: are they orthogonal or complementary? James Taylor says that for even the most complex systems, Agile development can deliver business agility - particularly when supported by the right technology. For business rules he recommends a Rules Engine, and provides guidance in how to distinguish rules from requirements.
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No Bug Database?
James Shore, a recognized speaker and writer in the Agile space, has had a crazy idea: Get rid of your bug database. He's not advocating that teams ignore problems; but bug databases are often so packed with questions, feature requests, and defects that there's little hope of their all being resolved. Shore and some others in Extreme Programming circles think there's a better way.
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FindBugs Creator Proposes JSR-305 Annotations for Software Defect Detection
Bill Pugh, the creator of FindBugs, has submitted JSR-305 Annotations for Software Defect Detection to the Java Community Process. The JSR would attempt to develop a standard set of annotations that could assist defect detection tools. It is supported by parties such as Google, JetBrains, and Doug Lea.
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Opinion: Code Coverage Stats Misleading
John Casey recently spent some time refactoring Maven's assembly plugin, using coverage reporting to mark his progress and make sure he didn't break anything as he went. It didn't exactly go as planned - but at very least it was a learning experience. His conclusion: when you're seeking confidence through testing, perhaps the worst thing you can do is to look at a test coverage report.
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Ruby 1.8.5 Released Quietly; Breakpointer Now Broken
Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby's 'benevolent dictator', releases Ruby 1.8.5 into the wild, though it's not without its problems.
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VSoft Releases Version Control Survey Results
.NET tool vendor VSoft recently released the results of a survey among 400 VSoft customers on version control product usage. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) remains at the top of the list, though its numbers declined since the 2005 survey which may be due to customers migrating to Team Foundation Server (TFS), though TFS is cost-prohibitive for many smaller development shops.
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Team Edition for Database Professionals ("DataDude") CTP 5 Released
Microsoft has released the 5th CTP of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, Microsoft's new database development product designed for managing all database change. Team Data for short, or "DataDude", is the first Microsoft tool to provide automatic support for database unit testing, generating test data, and refactoring.
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Developers Petition Microsoft to Rename .NET Framework 3.0
A group of developers are petitioning Microsoft to change the name of the announced ".NET Framework 3.0" back to "WinFX" or another less-confusing name. The source of the confusion is that the .NET Framework 3.0 will still run on version 2.0 of the CLR, which many consider synonymous with "the .NET framework." The petition has 210 signatures at the time of this writing.
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Bringing Profiling to Eclipse - The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform
Many developers are unaware that the Eclipse Foundation has had a profiling project, the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP), since 2004. TPTP addresses the entire test and performance life cycle, from early testing to production application monitoring, including test editing and execution, monitoring, tracing and profiling, and log analysis capabilities.
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VS.NET 2003 SP1 Released
The long-awaited Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio.NET 2003 was released earlier this week. SP1 fixes over 400 VS.NET 2003 bugs , including the top 50% of VS.NET crashes reported using through the Windows Error Reporting Service. Most notable from the fix list are several IntelliSense fixes, plus resolutions to assorted IDE crashes.
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ESB SCA WCF and TLAs
Patrick Leonard, VP of Product Development at Rogue Wave has posted a short commentary on Webservices.org about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its relationship to SOA. Patrick focuses on other specifications and frameworks that can enable "greater realization" of SOA solutions.
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NAG Continuous Integration Monitor Announced
Digital Focus has announced their open source "NAG" continuous integration tool, which monitors the stability of multiple application servers and notifies users of software build failures via audible and visual cues. Ready now for Apache Continuum, and already working to support Cruise Control, Lunt Build, and Ant Hill monitoring, this tool is specifically designed to support Agile teams.
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Using the Eclipse IDE to develop Ruby applications
Developers already familiar with Eclipse will appreciate Tabrez Iqbal's guide to tweaking it to work well with Ruby development.