FlexUnit 4, the latest version of the Adobe-developed open-source unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript 3, includes annotation-based tests, better test setup and teardown, Hamcrest matchers, and improved support for asynchronous testing.

The latest NetBeans release provides Kenai-based project collaboration, a Maven library dependency graph viewer, PHPUnit support, support for the Shoulda Ruby testing framework, improved C and C++ refactorings, and a host of other new features.

In a recent interview, Alex McGuire describes how his team has been moving to Scala, and how they can interface with a 300,000-line Java codebase, in a mission-critical application.

IntelliJ IDEA 9, the first milestone of which was posted today, includes more productivity enhancements for Java developers, faster startup, Java EE 6 development, OSGi programming, Android, improved Flex code editing, and a host of other features.

Eclipse Galileo is a coordinated release of 33 Eclipse projects, and includes the work of over 380 committers from 44 different organizations. Galileo features include support for OS X Cocoa, a memory analyzer, and support for Xtext, a new framework for building custom editors for domain-specific languages.

In a recent blog post, Erik Engbrecht notes that there are a handful of Actor implementations in Scala, in addition to the Actors library that's part of the standard Scala API, and that each attempt at Actors has slightly different design tradeoffs. He also wonders if there should one, highly extensible library, or several specialized libraries.

In a recent Sun Developer Network article, Janice Heiss and Sharon Zakhour discuss upcoming additions to the Java filesystem API.

Sun's latest JavaFX SDK makes it straightforward to use Swing components in a JavaFX application. Noted Sun UI engineer Any Fowler provides a ten-step guide in a recent blog post.

The Java Community Process (JCP), the Sun-sponsored standards body for Java technologies, launched a new Web site this week, and is hosting a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the site's collaborative features.

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In this interview with Artima, Gwyn Fisher, CTO of Klocwork, describes cases where well-known Java APIs work differently based on deployment platform, and how well-defined type systems can make resource management more reliable.

In this interview with Artima, Gwyn Fisher, CEO of Klocwork, describes cases where well-known Java APIs work differently based on deployment platform, and how well-defined type systems can make resource management more reliable.

Hi Cameron,I would be interested in how others handle heavily I/O-bound jobs in a clustered environment: What if most of your queries, for instance, result in cache misses and need to hit the disk? Also, in this interview, Ari's example was a 100GB database. In another Artima interview, Gil Tene from Azul suggests that you load your 100GB...

In this interview with Artima, Terracotta co-founder Ari Zilka discusses various techniques to load-test a stateful application on a cluster, highlights features of the open-source Terracotta clustering environment that make such load-testing simpler, and talks about managing heavily disk-bound workloads.

In this interview with Artima, Terracotta co-founder Ari Zilka discusses various techniques to load-test a stateful application on a cluster, highlights features of the open-source Terracotta clustering environment that make such load-testing simpler, and talks about managing heavily disk-bound workloads.