A short overview on some of the XML rendering tools that i have experimented with.
While the applications of XML is a very broad topic, this blog will focus only on some of the tools available to use XML electronic forms creation, submission and exchange.
Example : An electronic purchase order or Invoice exchanged between two partners.
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When there is wealth of information available on the Xebia Blogs, would you really like to go elsewhere?

Using the Firefox plugin mentioned below you can search within the Xebia Blogs using the Firefox searchbar. once you install the search plugin and restart the Xebia option would start appearing in the search bar as an option

Follow the steps
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Jeroen Borgers and Peter Veentjer from Xebia interview Jonas Bonér from Terracotta.

Terracotta is NAM (Network Attached Memory) and it provides JVM level clustering for scratch data.

This is part 1 of a 2 part interview. Part 2 will be posted in 2 weeks.

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Quartz is a Java Framework for scheduling. It allows applications to schedule tasks for execution in the future. Spring is a Java IoC container. It helps glue together the components that make up an application. This blog elaborates on where the two meet and how they can work together to make developing your application easier.
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The second eclipse quick tip is here where i show you how i use the external tool feature of eclipse to launch the selected shell script. So enjoy our new short video!

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Ah Monday morning, fresh start of the week. Today I am going to deploy the new version of our business process that we modeled using JBPM. Luckily JBPM provides a starter kit that enables you to deploy your process definitions. The readme promises me an out-of-the-box experience:

The enterprise archive can be deployed on JBoss out-of-the-box.

Let's see if my definition of out-of-the-box is the same as the JBoss one.
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When doing any development process it's always good to keep ourself aware of the things you intend to do. A cheat sheet or checklist is an easy way to keep your team on track and doing the right things. For me a checklist is not to be followed to the letter, it's just a good way to start thinking about your process.

There are some scrum checklists out there: Scrum Rules Cheat Sheet, Scrum checklist. I would like to add another list. My list is not so much about the practices of scrum, but focusses more on the goals of scrum (such as communication, trust, teamwork). The list contains questions you can ask the team. Try to answer all questions within short time (say half an hour) by looking at the work space and talking to the team. If you need more time or cannot answer all questions, you might have some things to discuss during the next retrospective. I hope it will get you and your team thinking about areas of improvement.
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