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The Register's Gavin Clarke writes a great column on The Eclipse Foundation's latest release: Helios.



Eclipse - Eclipses Occultations and Transits - Astronomy - Development Tools - Programming

JSON (Java Script Object Notation) provides a JSON is simple data format for the exchange of information between the browser and server. In this example we will see how you can use the power of JSON in your javascript code



JavaScript - JSON - Programming - Languages - Data

At the DDD Exchange 2010 mini-conference in London, Eric Evans spoke about emerging themes in the domain driven design community. Six years after the DDD book was published, Evans said that he can now define it more precisely than before.References Reference:  Eric Evans: Domain driven design redefined ...

An analytical guide on building Web Services the REST way using Spring 3 MVC simplifications



Web service - Representational State Transfer - Service-oriented architecture - Programming - REST

In two previous entries I covered Introducing NIO.2 (JSR 203) Part 1: What are new features?  and Introducing NIO.2 (JSR 203) Part 2: The Basics  In this entry I will discuss Attributes introduced in NIO.2. Using attributes we can read platform specific attributes of an element in the file system. James Sugrue

Yesterday's release of Helios shows how Java developers are now truly spoilt for choice when it comes to IDEs. Following on the NetBeans 6.9 release last week, Eclipse 3.6 is the most complete release so far, incorporating 39 projects.

Roy Osherove wrote a post about a month ago describing the different maturity levels of software teams and the strategies that he uses when leading each of these which I found quite interesting. He describes the following states of maturity for a team: James Sugrue

Mobile technologies have taken markets by storm. Every day we hear news about new smartphones and gadgets, new features, operating systems, vendor alliances, and various mega-wars. The coming generation of smartphones promises a pack of new features, which make them look more like mini-computers than smartphones.

DZone recently spoke with Mylyn founder Mik Kirsten, who told us that today, while the Eclipse platform gets a whole bunch of updates (including updates for Mylyn) he'd be announcing a new version of Tasktop Pro and Tasktop Enterprise.  The new Tasktop Pro 1.7 builds on the release of Mylyn 3.4 and features several new integrations with commercial agile toolsets such as ScrumWorks, VersionOne,...

A surprise decision by a US Judge finally ends the Viacom lawsuit for $1 billion against YouTube today.  The decision was made to throw the case out after being filed 3 years earlier.  The judge said that YouTube is protected under the DMCA's safe harbor provision.  After this precedent, it looks like YouTube is here to stay.  Yay!Intel Monopoly Probe is Halted

With today's release of Helios (Eclipse 3.6), the developers of EGit and JGit have finalized (a week early) version 0.8.4 for the Eclipse platform update.  The incubating Git support in Eclipse was ranked #2 among new 3.6 platform additions by developer Ian Bull.  EGit committer Chris Aniszczyk of Red Hat also answered some questions about

Shawn Hartsock currently works on PNG-J, which is a pure Java re-implementation of the PNG libraries.  He is also working on a QR plugin for Grails, which is publicly available for download into your Grails apps.  Thirdly, Hartsock works on the audit logging plugin, which he has a user base around.  He discusses these three projects in detail. Embed Tag:  ...

The Eclipse Helios release is now available for download.  Each year I am amazed how the Eclipse community is release on such a predictable schedule.  Congratulations to all that help make it happen. James Sugrue

In the Grails community, they're trying to figure out how to merge current view technologies (e.g. jQuery, jQueryUI, Google Widgets) with the Grails infrastructure.  Domain object "mangling" is Robert Fischer's specialty, so he contributed to the Grails community by making the dynamic domain properties plugin.  Fischer discusses the development of this plugin and the book he wrote,...

Jon Brisbin documents and open sources a session manager designed to power requests in a light-weight, scalable, reliable, and asynchronous manner across clustered cloud resources.



Technology - Operating Systems - Jon Brisbin - Apache Tomcat - Open source

I’ve seen many a company try to migrate from Ant to Maven with varied success.  There is a change in mindset that has to come about when making the transition.  Here are some of the highlights.References Reference:  Should you move to Maven 2? Mitchell Pronsc...

Last week we completed the last of the 23 part design pattern series. This article brings all of those patterns together for your reference.

db4o is an object database, ie. forget about mapping of tables in a relational model. If you're a developer that translates into savings in time invested in your application and volume of code. db4o's great potential is that you can reuse your (plain, non-mapped) objects by saving and retrieving them as many times as you want. You can persist complex objects with nested collections or other...

The previous post about merging with named branches in mercurial was reposted at dzone. Daniel Neugebauer commented there that he wouldn’t use the named branch feature for every small issue instead he suggested to do the merging directly within the same repository and for bigger changes he would use a ‘clone per issue’. James Sugrue ...

With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it's time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks. James Sugrue