SDLC Blog

links for 2007-03-07

Mar 7th, 2007

InfoQ: Presentation: Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments

There is abundant information available on developing Java technology-based applications. By contrast, almost nobody talks about tasks involved in supporting and troubleshooting those applications once they are released. Issues such as troubleshooting the

(tags: java production)
InfoQ: GreenPepper aims to Improve Collaborative Testing

GreenPepper allows Agile teams to collaboratively write executable specifications, by enabling Story Driven Development across the team.

(tags: collaboration agile testing SDD)

Mar 6th, 2007

Eclipse jumps on the Ajax bandwagon

The new RAP framework extends the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) providing a runtime specifically designed for Ajax applications

(tags: eclipse ide ajax rcp)
Arun Gupta’s Blog: Language-neutral data format: XML and JSON

XML is document-oriented and JSON is data-oriented. So if you want to deal with highly structured documents that requires a complex structure, binary data, exact ordering of elements and be able to render itself then use XML. OTOH, if you are focused on l

(tags: json xml javascript)
Relo – Relationship based Exploration

An open-source code explorer plug-in for Eclipse that helps developers understand large information spaces, such as sizable code repositories.

(tags: eclipse programming tools)
Red Hat, Exadel partner around open source tools for JBoss

Exadel, a provider of rich application components and tooling, today announced plans to open source its commercial products, Exadel Studio Pro and its RichFaces component library, to JBoss.org under LGPL.

(tags: ide java jboss)
TIOBE Software – The Coding Standards Company

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages.

(tags: programming languages)

Mar 5th, 2007

alphaWorks : Standard Widget Graphics for Eclipse : Overview

A set of standard graphic objects built into the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) from Eclipse, providing both new widget controls and an animation framework that share a common programming model with the existing controls in SWT.

(tags: eclipse UI Graphics)
Comment lines: Andre Tost: Are you an SOA expert?

The list of things an SOA expert needs to know about seems to be getting longer and longer. Here’s a checklist to help you stay on top of it all.

(tags: soa checklist)
The Art and Craft of Great Software Architecture and Development: RFC: What’s your “ideal” development environment?

Frank Kelly’s current “ideal” development environment

(tags: ide development)