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Posted in Java Community News for Bill Venners, November 19, 2009,  Submit comment
At the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium, Sun's Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to Java in JDK 7. In this interview, Stephen Colebourne, coauthor of the FCM closures proposal, gives his perspective on this surprise announcement.
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by Michele Simionato, from The Explorer, November 18, 2009,  15 comments
Some musings about my personal history with inheritance and interfaces, solicited by the release of the Go language this week.
by Frank Sommers, November 10, 2009,  Submit comment
Flex 4 introduces a new API to define effects for rich-client applications. This article provides an overview of new features in Flex 4's effects and animation-related APIs.
Posted by Frank Sommers, November 6, 2009,  Submit comment
Google released today a series of open-source libraries that make it easier to work with highly optimized JavaScript. Closure Tools includes a JavaScript compiler, a set of utility libraries, and a client-side JavaScript template engine.
Posted by Frank Sommers, November 4, 2009,  Submit comment
At its X Innovate 2009 Developer Conference, PayPal announced today a new platform and APIs that allow developers to integrate a variety of payment types into applications. In an interview with Artima, Damon Hougland, senior director of the PayPal Platform, talks about integrating payments into end-user applications.
Posted by Frank Sommers, November 2, 2009,  Submit comment
Traffic Server is an open-source HTTP proxy that has been in production at Yahoo and other large Web sites for several years, and is capable of handling over 35,000 requests per second.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 30, 2009,  Submit comment
YouTrack is a new bug and issue tracker that provides a simple, keyboard focused UI, with an intelligent, context-sensitive search box, to speed up locating and modifying issue and bug status.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 27, 2009,  Submit comment
Amazon released today a relational database service as part of Amazon Web Services. The service provides a cloud-based equivalent of a MySQL 5.1 database engine, and is priced based on usage.
by Bill Venners, from Angle Brackets and Curly Braces, October 26, 2009,  65 comments
Today I gave a presentation about ScalaTest at a local company. I showed ways ScalaTest integrates with JUnit and makes it easier to do some things that are harder to do with JUnit in Java. It made me curious to find out what JUnit users would say are their actual pain points today with JUnit.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 23, 2009,  10 comments
In a recent blog post, Naresh Jain summarizes a conference discussion about code smell, highlighting some of the worst code smells, and some that, if eliminated, can bring order to a putrefying codebase.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 21, 2009,  1 comment
VisualVM is an open-source application that monitors and presents visually rich metrics about Java applications running in a JVM. Based on the NetBeans platform, the latest VisualVM release features a sampling CPU and memory profiler plugin, among other features.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 20, 2009,  20 comments
In a recent paper, Miguel Garcia, Anastasia Izmaylova, and Sibylle Schupp describe an effort to add type-safe, language-integrated database querying capabilities to Scala.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 16, 2009,  11 comments
In this interview with Artima, JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov discusses how he hopes developers will benefit from the decision to open-source Intellij IDEA.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 15, 2009,  18 comments
In a pair of recent blog posts, Uncle Bob and Martin Fowler discuss the types of technical debt almost every project incurs, and debate whether messy code can be considered a kind of technical debt.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 13, 2009,  1 comment
In a recent blog post, Aleksander Stensby shows examples of how Google Collections, the newly open-sourced Guava library, and static imports can reduce boilerplate Java code.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 12, 2009,  3 comments
ScalaTest is an open-source testing framework for Scala and Java code that promises to increase testing productivity with high-level test abstractions. It supports a multiple of testing styles, and integrates with popular Java testing tools.
Posted by Frank Sommers, October 8, 2009,  Submit comment
New features in Adobe's desktop runtime include the ability to interact with native OS processes, detect the addition or removal of mass storage devices, locally record sound, create sockets, better accessibility, and an open document API.
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