Spring Batch

Many applications within the enterprise domain require bulk processing to perform business operations in mission critical environments. These business operations include automated, complex processing of large volumes of information that is most efficiently processed without user interaction. These operations typically include time based events (e.g. month-end calculations, notices or correspondence), periodic application of complex business rules processed repetitively across very large data sets (e.g. insurance benefit determination or rate adjustments), or the integration of information that is received from internal and external systems that typically requires formatting, validation and processing in a transactional manner into the system of record. Batch processing is used to process billions of transactions every day for enterprises.

Spring Batch is a lightweight, comprehensive batch framework designed to enable the development of robust batch applications vital for the daily operations of enterprise systems. Spring Batch builds upon the productivity, POJO-based development approach, and general ease of use capabilities people have come to know from the Spring Framework, while making it easy for developers to access and leverage more advance enterprise services when necessary.

Spring Batch

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so you haven't seen complaints about maven?

have you only heard good things?  i'm surprised...

here's some stuff to balance it out.

first, a couple of common complaints:

• too complex
• too rigid
• too buggy
• too opaque
• difficult and time-consuming to debug problems

then, a couple of links:
Howard @ tapestry, maven vs ivy
a collection of links on negative maven experiences

powermock

PowerMock is a framework that extend other mock libraries
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By using a custom classloader no changes need to be done to the IDE or continuous integration servers which simplifies adoption.
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PowerMock aims to extend the existing API's with a small number of methods and annotations to enable the extra features. Currently PowerMock supports EasyMock and Mockito.

powermock - Project Hosting on Google Code

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SVN, Git

AMO = addons.mozilla.org team...

Moving away from SVN

We moved AMO into SVN in 2006 and it’s treated us relatively well. Somewhere along the line, we decided to tag our production versions at a revision of trunk instead of keeping a separate tag and merging changes into it. It’s worked for us but it’s a hard cutoff on code changes, which means that while we’re in a code freeze no one can check anything in to trunk. As we begin to branch for larger projects this will become more of a hassle, so I’m planning on going back to a system where a production tag is created and changes are merged into it as they are ready to go live.

Most of the development team has been using git-svn for several months and, aside from the commands being far more verbose, we haven’t had many complaints. We’ve discovered Git is a much more powerful development tool and we expect to use it directly starting some time next year. As of now, we expect to maintain the /locales/ directory in SVN so this change doesn’t affect localizers but we’ll keep people notified if there are any changes to that process.

All Night Diner : AMO Development Changes in 2010

so... should we consider Git instead of SVN?

production tag and merging stuff in when stable sounds like a nice process...

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ServiceMix Enterprise Service Bus...

Apache ServiceMix is an open source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) that combines the functionality of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) to create an agile, enterprise ESB.

Apache ServiceMix is an open source distributed ESB built from the ground up on the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache license. The goal of JBI is to allow components and services to be integrated in a vendor independent way, allowing users and vendors to plug and play.
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ServiceMix is lightweight and easily embeddable, has integrated Spring support and can be run at the edge of the network (inside a client or server), as a standalone ESB provider or as a service within another ESB. You can use ServiceMix in Java SE or a Java EE application server.
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ServiceMix is .... integrated with include JBoss [, ] .... provides an implementation of WS Notification [and] .... includes many JBI components including HTTP, JMS, BPEL, Rules, and many more ...

Apache ServiceMix, the Agile Open Source ESB -- Home

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get ms ie to handle standards?

IE7 is a JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues

/IE7/

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VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software

VirtualBox

spesielt interessant for ei dedikert test-/ CI-maskin (kontinuerleg integrasjon), der det kan køyrast ei eiga VM for kvar kunde-konfigurasjon som er under test/CI, kopiert frå ein felles mal med linux, postgresql og jboss. dvs at me treng berre å helda ved like ein mal...

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tracking status - scrumboard, kanban, etc

i like scrumy alot, but stumbled over other info on the way to it - so here's some stuff to check out later...

Tools:

Planning Poker
Mingle
ScrumDesk , w/ taskboard
Trichord
extreme planner

userStories' list of tools
Best Scrum tools (StackOverflow)

To read:
Visual Management for Agile Teams
Fra Scrum til Kanban (Norwegian)
Kanban in SW
Evolution of a Kanban board
Kanban and Pipelines
Kanban, Flow and Cadence

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CubicTest

CubicTest is a graphical Eclipse plug-in for writing Selenium and Watir tests. It makes tests faster and easier to write, and provides abstractions to make tests more robust and reusable.

CubicTest

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full import from cvs to svn / search svn history

you can try to import your CVS repository with all associated history into Subversion
.... is the most desirable and also the most difficult. Fortunately, some tools exist to help with this, including cvs2svn, a program that attempts to import your old CVS projects and their history into a Subversion repository. cvs2svn can be downloaded from http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/

Converting from CVS to Subversion

And search old code:

• http://svnquery.tigris.org/
• http://svn-search.sourceforge.net/
• http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/ (might work on cvs, too)
  
• http://supose.soebes.de/wiki/supose
  

This might make it easier to delete obsolete code without loosing access to the smart things you did there - if you should need to look at it again someday...

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eclipse update site for Resource Bundle Editor

the Resource Bundle Editor com.essiembre.eclipse.i18n.resourcebundle Version 0.7.7 is now available on our update site http://www.nightlabs.de/updatesites/development/

Forum - Announcements - Resource Bundle Editor on Update Site - jfire.org - Free / Open Source ERP


ref http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125041

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Exjali - EXpressiveness JAva LIbrary

Inspired by the buzz around Java 7 and "new" JVM language (Groovy, JRuby, Scala, ...), Exjali is a small Java librairy, allowing more expressive statements without altering the language. Exjali includes some attempts for ranges of integers, SQL-like functions, IO facilities, functors and named parameters.

Exjali

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jetty

Jetty is an open-source, standards-based, full-featured web server

jetty - Jetty WebServer

kan vera alternativ til tomcat, td i lag med jboss.

elles: juster parameter i webdefault.xml, useFileMappedBuffer, til å vera false for å unngå låsing av jsp- og css-filer.

Files locked on Windows

Enkle screenshots i firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648

Ser temmelig pen ut. Mye mindre smertefullt å illustrere bugs.

(Inge via epost)

tomcat 6

ny stabil tomcat:

TSS: Tomcat 6 released and stable

Apache has announced that Tomcat 6.0.10 has been released and is considered stable. Tomcat 6 ... implements the "Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and improvements in memory usage."

Raible designs: Upgrading to Tomcat 6

it has to be the least painful major Tomcat upgrade I've ever done

dynamisk resize av tekstfelt?

la dei brukarane som vil ha større plass ordna det sjølv i gui?...

JSAN - Form.Element.Resize 0.03

Unobtrusive javascript class for make a standard form field resizable with the mouse
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This nice class implement some methods for add a mouse-driven resize
feature on form fields such as text inputs, textareas and select
controls. Clicking and dragging the borders or the corners of the form
element will resize it while double clicking inside the element will
restore its original dimensions

prototype som jsp taglib

interessant å kikka på... på SF

NetBeans IDE Allows JDJ Contributing Editor to Build JSP Tag Library @ JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

With the ever growing popularity of the Prototype JavaScript library, ... Jason Bell ... has created an alpha release of a JSP Tag library on sourceforge.net.

Called "prototaglib" it enables JSP developers to create the required AJAX calls to the Prototype library. It's similar to the Ruby On Rails way of doing things.
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The taglib enables developers to create link or form based remote tags that call either servlet or jsp pages to populate the required div tags. There are also tags to update a div over a specific period of time.

Currently at an alpha release it is hoped that the community will aid in feedback and request features that can be worked on.

WUI - alternativ til JSP

ser jo lovande ut...

WUI - Web User Interface Framework

JSP development sucks

Let's face it: no two browsers support HTML, XHML, CSS or JavaScript consistently. Wasn't Java supposed to let you "write once, run everywhere"? Well today you can, and you don't have to use applets.

JSPs were great in the infancy of Web development in Java. Today, it's clear that they're the wrong tool for the job. They promote model-1 programming and offer very little reuse potential for the application programmer. Sure there's TAGLIBs. They're no silver bullet: they're performance hogs, they add new dependencies, new semantics and offer very poor reuse capabilities unless you're the author of the tag library itself.

eclipse wiki

hadde vore kjekt å ha...

Eclipse Wiki Editor Plugin

in the context of Eclipse, it is a powerful project documentation tool linking documentation to eclipse resources, web sites, bug tracking tools and other Wikis.
Features

* Link to local Wiki documents
* Link to resources in the Eclipse workspace
* Link to Wiki documentation in plugins
* Link to Java source code in the current project path simply by typing the fully qualified name of a class (classes in the default package are not supported).
* Link to urls — links starting with http, ftp, mailto and file

Dumbster - Fake SMTP Server

Dumbster - Fake SMTP Server : "The Dumbster is a very simple fake SMTP server designed for unit and system testing applications that send email messages. It responds to all standard SMTP commands but does not deliver messages to the user. The messages are stored within the Dumbster for later extraction and verification.
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The Dumbster is written in Java and is open source."