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JSF Testing Tools
Unit testing JSF applications has been considered difficult because of the constraints of testing JSF components outside the container. But this trend is changing with JSFUnit and other JSF test frameworks like Shale Test and JSF Extensions that support white-box testing approach to unit test both client and server components of the web application.
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Interview: Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT.
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Book Excerpt and Review: Release It!
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael Nygard discusses what it takes to make production-ready software, and explains how this differs from feature-complete software. InfoQ spoke with Michael Nygard and asked him several questions related to the book and some of the issues it raises.
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DB40 v7 and Increasing Popularity of ODBMS
db4o has been growing fast lately, having recently released v7.0 beta of their flagship db4o embedded OODBMS, and claiming over 30,000 deployments of their open source ODBMS. Is this a sign of changing times reflecting the ODBMS landscape?
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JRuby: 1.0.3 addresses compatibility issues, 1.1 performance update
JRuby 1.0.3 is out now. Although a point release, the update is significant because it addresses compatibility issues with Rails 2.0 and other libraries and tools. Meanwhile, some JRuby 1.1 performance improvements get noticed.
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NetKernel 3.3 Released Including Enhanced Dynamic Language Support
After eight months, 1060 Research, Ltd. has released the newest version of their NetKernel product, version 3.3. New features in this release include enhanced dynamic language support and an optimized HTTP transport layer.
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Closures and Preserving the Feel of Java
During the last few years, there has been wide-ranging discussion about adding closures to the Java language, either as part of Java SE 7, or in some future, unspecified release. At Javapolis, Joshua Bloch presented his opinion about the controversy, and why he feels that CICE is a more suitable approach.
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DWR: State of the Union
There is a lot going on in the DWR world: DWR joining the Dojo Foundation; Joe Walker, creator of DWR, joining SitePen, Ltd. as Director of Support and Development; and an announcement of the features that are expected to be part of DWR 3.0.
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More on RPC in Adobe Flex Applications with AMF, BlazeDS, and/or GraniteDS
Last week, Adobe made a major change to the Adobe Flex Platform with the announcement that much of LiveCycle Data Services is being open sourced in the BlazeDS project, including the AMF specification and code. This change should eliminate one of the final cost and licensing barriers for those considering adopting the Flex Platform.
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Amazon's SimpleDB and IBM's Blue Cloud Continue the Rise of Cloud Computing
Earlier this week Amazon introduced a beta of SimpleDB, a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. SimpleDB compliments Amazon's other computing services Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. The announcement comes roughly a month after IBM announced their Blue Cloud initiative.
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IBM Adds PowerShell Support for WebSphere MQ
PowerShell is starting to gain acceptance with major players. IBM has announced that WebSphere MQ can now be managed using PowerShell. WebSphere objects such as Channels, Listeners, Queues, and Services can be created, examined, and modified from the command line. IBM's WMQ blog has posted a series on how to perform these actions.
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SpringSource Announces Commercial Software Strategy, Spring Integration
At The Spring Experience yesterday, SpringSource (the company behind Spring) announced their commercial software subscription strategy as well as Spring Integration, a new EAI framework. Spring Certification will also be coming in 2008. InfoQ video interviewed Spring founder Rod Johnson & SpringSource COO Neelan Choksi to get the news from the source.
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Continuous Integration and Code Inspection with Hudson and FindBugs
A recent article published in IBM developerWorks talks about automating Continuous Integration and Code Inspection tasks in a build process using open source tools. It explains how to install and configure Hudson server with Subversion, Ant, and software inspection tools like FindBugs and PMD to create a build process with continuous feedback on test results and defects.
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Sun Releases Open-Source PDF Renderer
Sun has released a new open-source project as part of SwingLabs: PDF Renderer, "a 100% Java PDF Renderer and Viewer." PDF Renderer can parse the Portable Document Format (PDF) from a file and display it, as an AWT image, in a panel, or using any Graphics2D implementation.
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Using Axis2 for Asynchronous Web Services
A new article by Eran Chinthaka, Develop asynchronous Web services with Axis2, provides several examples of using the asynchronous APIs of Axis2 in client and server side applications.