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Contracts, Expectations, Agreements and Processes
Contract first development isn't a new idea, but has some followers in the SOA domain. Recently, the W3C has extended the WSDL to include semantic annotations, enriching the basic contract with more metadata. Contracts are also explored in more detail in the development of processes by Steve Jones using tools like Eclipse and NetBeans.
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Eclipse 3.2 & Callisto Now Available for Download
Callisto, the Eclipse simultaneous release of Eclipse 3.2 final as well as 10 sub projects became available for download this afternoon. The goal of the simultaneous release is to eliminate uncertainity about project version numbers, and cross-project compatibility. The milestone also coordinates and organizes the different development groups together.
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Eclipse "Callisto" an Agile Success Story
Today will mark the "Callisto" release of 10 Eclipse toolsets simultaneously, remarkable in that it provides a synchronized set of releases to facilitate implementation of Eclipse for developers building their own tools and applications on top of it. A large, complex and risky undertaking, Callisto was reportedly delivered by open source developers using Agile methods.
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Getting Agile with Eclipse Continuous Integration
The Eclipse "Callisto" release includes agility-enhancing features, including a new version of the testing tools developed in the "TPTP" project. In their online presentation, project committers Scott E. Schneider and Joe Toomey say that by using TPTP in the Continuous Integration cycle developers gain more powerful test types, better/more extensible reporting, and easy platform coverage.
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InfoQ Book Review: Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse
Matt Morton asked the question "Can Java be as Agile as the Dynamics (Ruby, Python, Groovy)?" and went to Anil Hemrajani's book to find out. He found a readable, useful book, and helps idenfity the right audience for this book.