Monthly Archives: July 2011

1690 days later

Posted on 29. July 2011 by Benjamin Barth

Oracle finally released JDK 7. 1690 days after JDK 6 the new Java version is now available for download. Beside some new features which will improve the productivity, it contains several enhancements for performance and integration: Type inference with diamont … Continue reading →

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Prompt for confirmation when leaving a page

Posted on 28. July 2011 by Sönke Sothmann

Sometimes users leave a web page without clicking on a save button to save the changes they made to a form. In this case, it can be useful to show a confirmation popup and ask them if they really want … Continue reading →

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Dynamic list injection in Spring

Posted on 27. July 2011 by Sönke Sothmann

Imagine you have a Spring XML configuration which defines a bean with a list property. The bean could look like Here is the spring config that defines the bean with a static list of values for the listProp property. If … Continue reading →

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Grails 1.4 canceled, next release version will be 2.0

Posted on 26. July 2011 by Sönke Sothmann

Grails 1.4 should actually come after Grails 1.3. SpringSource recently decided to cancel 1.4 and name the next release 2.0. A lot of improvements and new features justify the new major version number. The changes of the upcoming 2.0 release … Continue reading →

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Atlassian Bonfire 1.0 released

Posted on 15. July 2011 by Felix Kugel

Atlassian released the web testing tool Bonfire 1.0 for “rapid agile testing”. Atlassian Bonfire is a browser extension for JIRA designed to rapidly capture comprehensive bug reports when testing web applications. (Atlassian) Key features: In-application bug reports: submitting comprehensive bug reports via … Continue reading →

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JBoss 7 ist da!

Posted on 14. July 2011 by Serge Ndong

JBoss 7 ist da und verspricht unter anderem folgendes: Leichtgewichtigkeit, kurze Startzeiten, konsistente und mächtige Administrationsoberfläche … JBoss 7 Features. JBoss 7 wird mit Hibernate 4 Beta geliefert.

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Zu lange Testlaufzeiten? Divide and Conquer!

Posted on 13. July 2011 by Björn Feustel

“Slow Machine” ist eines der häufigsten anzutreffenden Anti-Patters in Build-Umgebungen mit zentralen Continuous Integration Servern. Sehr anschaulich zeigt Atlassian in ihrem Post “Pipelining the build for fun and profit” wie sich durch Restrukturieren der Tests und Artifact-Sharing dem begegnen lässt … Continue reading →

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