In this interview with Artima, JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov discusses how he hopes developers will benefit from the decision to open-source Intellij IDEA.

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.

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.

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.

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.

> Agreed. Scala has become a bit too complex to my taste,> which makes me really sad.> > Back to Frank's point about productivity: I don't think> that a language that's more compact and more expressive> than Java will necessarily lead to higher productivity,> especially if that language has crossed that complexity> threshold.Cedric, I'm just...

Noop is a new JVM language that has as its aim to encourage good development practices and discourage the bad ones. In part supported by Google, Noop aims to build dependency injection into the language, favors immutability, and provides strong typing.

For me, personally, the biggest issue is productivity: I want to be more productive on the Java platform than I can be with the Java language, but I also want to use all Java has to offer. At that point I can use JRuby or some other JVM language (although the number of really mature JVM languages is not that high, IMO). And I think that's a...

In a recent blog post, Chas Emerick opines that the Java language has reached the state of stability characteristic of other mature systems languages. As a result, we'll see very few changes to the language itself, yet more and more developers will come to depend on Java because of that stability.

In a recent blog post, Sun's David Dice writes about the impact of limited bandwidth on scaling applications via concurrency.

Google recently open-sourced Guava, an extensive set of general-purpose APIs for JDK 1.6. The initial release of Guava includes classes for working with primitive values, I/O, and concurrency.

Relational databases offer a rich toolset to help ensure the integrity of data. Apart for normalized schema, however, few enterprise applications take advantage of those tools and, instead, tend to implement integrity checking inside application layers. If SQL database constraints are useful, why aren't more applications taking advantage of them?

Relational databases offer a rich toolset to help ensure the integrity of data. Apart for normalized schema, however, few enterprise applications take advantage of those tools and, instead, tend to implement integrity checking inside application layers. If SQL database constraints are useful, why aren't more applications taking advantage of them?

Relational databases offer a rich toolset to help ensure the integrity of data. Apart from normalized schema, however, few enterprise applications take advantage of those tools and, instead, tend to implement integrity checking inside application layers. If SQL database constraints are useful, why aren't more applications taking advantage of them?

Relational databases offer a rich toolset to help ensure the integrity of data. Apart from normalized schema, however, few enterprise applications take advantage of those tools and, instead, tend to implement integrity checking inside application layers. If SQL database constraints are useful, why aren't more applications taking advantage of them?