Thursday, June 29, 2006
Callisto's Eclipse
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Greetings...
I'm writing this in the last hours before the Callisto Simultaneous
Release, a splashy unveiling of ten Eclipse community projects, including
the latest version of the popular IDE, its visual editor, web tools
platform, C/C++ IDE, and more. On the one hand, this kind of simultaneous
release seems like it would vex individual projects by making them
dependent on each others' schedules. But on the other hand, it eliminates
some uncertainty about interoperability between versions of the various
projects, as this simple milestone baseline is something that can be
trusted to work together. In other words: good news for all you Eclipse
end users out there. In this week's ONJava, we'll take a look at what you
can do with the new version of Eclipse.
By all measures the most popular IDE for Java development, Eclipse is
rolling a number of compelling features into Eclipse 3.2's Java
Development Tools. Ed Burnette has our tour of "What's New in Eclipse 3.2
Java Development Tools," pointing out more powerful Java SE 6-compliant
compilation, editing conveniences, tools for working with team-written
code, and more.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/06/28/whats-new-in-eclipse-3-2-java-development-tools.html>
If you're working with WebLogic Java Process Definitions, your testing
capabilities are limited by the inability to work with JUnit. In the
dev2dev article "An Introduction to Business Process Testing using
JProcessUnit," Reza Shafii "introduces the JProcessUnit API CodeShare
project and demonstrates how it can be used to create well-defined,
JUnit-based automated test cases for WebLogic Integration JPDs."
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/04/process-testing.html>
What works in small web apps doesn't necessarily hold together in big apps
under heavy loads, and this is particularly true when you have a system
that needs to handle hundreds of transactions per second. Performing
every task one step at a time makes intuitive sense, but it doesn't
necessarily scale. Binildas Christudas offers an alternative in a
feature article from java.net: "Distribute, Detach, and Parallelize in
Tomcat." In this article, he introduces a more detached architecture that
shares the work in small, loosely coupled, asynchronous pieces.
<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/06/06/distribute-detach-parallelize-tomcat.html>
Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:
Timothy M. O'Brien - Ajax Driven Javadoc Website - javaref.com
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/ajax_driven_javadoc_website_ja.html>
Dejan Bosanac - Parsing form-data multiparts
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/parsing_formdata_multiparts.html>
Robert Cooper - SOA Anti-patterns
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/soa_antipatterns.html>
Timothy M. O'Brien - A Struts Schism?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/a_struts_revolution_in_the_mak.html>
Steve Anglin - O'Reilly OSCON: Java conference
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/oreilly_oscon_java_conference.html>
Steve Anglin - Spring 2.0 RC is out
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/spring_20_rc_is_out.html>
Steve Anglin - A Leap for Java EE and .NET Interoperability?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/a_leap_for_java_ee_and_net_int.html>
Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/weblog_s?x-subject=3&>
Please join us again next week.
Chris Adamson, Editor
ONJava.com
cadamson@oreilly.com
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