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Several months ago, Motorola decided to cut the entire corporation in two.  The organization was beginning to lose its agility because of the wide variety of technologies that it researches and sells.  Out of that decision, we will see the handset division spin off into its own company called Motorola Mobility.     

When Google's AppInventor was announced last month, I signed up straight away, and have been really looking forward to seeing what it can do. This weekend, I was granted access to the site (thanks Google!), so I thought I'd share my experiences with you.

From build 105, the compiler and runtime of the Java 7 Releases have support for the new form of try : try-with-resources, also called ARM (Automatic Resource Management) blocks.This new statement makes working with streams and all kind of closeable resources easier. For example, in Java, you can have this kind of code : James Sugrue

This article has been inspired by a thread that appeared on the Java Posse mailing list, that in turn was started as a comment to a blog post that tried to demonstrate how Scala could be less complex than Java. Article Type:  Opinion/Editorial

The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0.  The AMQP-based system has a new persister that's only bound by disk capacity and a server that optimizes memory usage - giving RabbitMQ more consistent performance and faster startup.  2.0 now implements version 0.9.1 of the AMQP specification.Perl Heroine Appointed Ubuntu Technical...

Many developers and testers write automated tests. Sometimes they're unit tests, other times package level, and occasionally integration. There are many different types of tests, but there are a few characteristics of great tests. Today let's look at one specific characteristic: behavior versus state. Article Type:  How-to

Both Spring Roo 1.1 and Google Web Toolkit 2.1 released Milestone 3 today, showing that the two technologies have been in lock-step since Google I/O, when VMware and Google announced integration plans for the Spring Framework and GWT.  As these two technologies, along with other projects like AspectJ and STS become more integrated, the number of real-world applications built with Spring tools...

Slow CSS Selectors in Internet Explorer, too many XHR Calls, slow 3rd party JavaScript libraries, large DOM size or excessive visual effects are among the Top 10 Client-Side performance problems in Web 2.0 Applications. Read the full list and learn how to avoid these problems.



Internet Explorer - JavaScript - Cascading Style Sheets - Document Object Model - Web 2.0

Object-oriented programming on the Java platform and advanced Java language features



Java - Object-oriented programming - Programming - Languages - FAQs Help and Tutorials

Learn how build Java Object-oriented programs on Ubuntu and IBM Middleware



IBM - Linux - Ubuntu - Operating Systems - Distributions

fun4j brings functional programming to the JVM. It's a framework that integrates major concepts from functional programming into the Java Platform.



Java - Java Virtual Machine - Programming - Languages - Functional programming

The Deltaset Project is a new generation productivity tool (Apache 2.0 Licensed) for extremely fast implementation of a full blown, java based, web applications. It supports Google Application Engine.



Java - Google AppEngine - Web application - Apache License - Programming

I'm at the point now where I'm writing Groovy code for (virtually) all my unit and integration tests. Tapestry's testing code is pretty densely written ... care of all those explicit types and all the boilerplate EasyMock code. With Groovy, that code condenses down nicely, and the end result is more readable. For example, here's an integration test:References Reference:  ...

Apache Pivot is a platform for building rich Internet applications (RIAs) in Java. While it is geared primarily towards user interface construction, Pivot contains a number of features that make it suitable for non-UI applications as well. Article Type:  How-to James Sugrue

In this part we will look at how the directory tree walker and the directory stream reader works. These two features are another couple of long requested features which was not included in the core Java before Java 7. First, lets see what directory stream reader is, this API allows us to filter content of a directory on the file system and extract the file names that matches our filter...

I’ve seen my fair share of projects migrating from Ant to Maven, and, for a complex project, this migration path can take some time. You have to worry about dependency management, project structure, and retraining an existing team to use Maven and understand the core concepts behind the tool. When you make the shift, you are often affecting development infrastructure for an existing...

The previous version of the Knappsack Maven Archetypes included archetypes for creating projects using JSF, JPA, CDI and Bean Validation that can run in a servlet container such as Jetty or Tomcat. In order to put it through its paces I decided to create a little test social bookmarking application that lets users create accounts, and when logged in, add bookmarks and tag them. Users that...

Hi All,
I am a 2009 batch student of SRKNEC and I am currently in Nagpur. I will be
here only till Aug 17th, but I can ask Chandak Sir for conducting the
meeting at SRKNEC. Please let me know the date and time!
Thanks,
Vasusen Patil
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The software industry is constantly trying to find the next-generation tools and methods that can make development, testing, and production more efficient.  It's a core part of the developer's inner drive to try and envision how things could be better.  At ReplaySolutions, CEO Jonathan Lindo has watched the industry struggle with testing infrastructure and developer/operations...

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or so," in Silicon Valley.  McAllister criticized Oracle's handling of OpenSolaris and its recent lawsuit against Adobe's mobile buddy, Google.  "I have no problem making money from open source code," he said.  "I have no...