Posted by Gerbrand van Dieijen mid-afternoon: May 31st, 2011
Last weekend the public beta of JavaFX 2.0 came out. I’ve much anticipated this release, as you might guess from my previous posting on JavaFX 2.0. I’ve downloaded the JavaFX-runtime, SDK and Netbeans-plugins the following evening from Oracle’s JavaFX page and started trying out JavaFX by viewing and running the examples from the SDK from Netbeans.
I’m quite enthusiastic, read on the learn more!
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Posted by Andrew Phillips in the wee hours: May 21st, 2011
Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized, on-demand application landscape and what fundamental improvements will need to come before deployment matures into the invisible, it just works™ experience build is today.
In the previous post, we compared deployment to another key process in the application lifecycle – build – and asked which key developments turned it from a magical “black box” into the “just works” process it is today.
We identified Reusable commands, Models and Conventions++ as three key steps, which we’ll look into in more detail in this post. Then, we’ll shift back to deployment and ask which improvements will be essential to getting to “just works” here.
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Posted by Vincent Partington mid-afternoon: May 8th, 2011
At XebiaLabs, we have recently been working on an exciting new integration for Deployit, our deployment automation product. We’ve created a Deployit plugin that allows you to deploy EAR files directly to virtual systems created by IBM’s WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance (WCA).
But a small piece of background first. Deployit and WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance both “deploy” things. But they deploy different things. Deployit deploys application artifacts and resources such as EAR files and data sources to middleware systems like WebSphere Application Server (but also HTML to web servers, MQ configuration to queue managers, etc.). The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance on the other hand, deploys patterns (topologies) of virtual images to hypervisors. But not just any kind of virtual images. It is especially geared towards deploying middleware topologies. In other words, the software Deployit wants to deploy to! This means that the functionalities of WCA and Deployit are a perfect fit; have WCA deploy the middleware systems and have Deployit deploy applications to those middleware systems.
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Posted by Herbert Schuurmans mid-afternoon: May 5th, 2011
A flexible architecture can only come to its full potential when the organization itself is flexible. (more…)
Posted by Cirilo Wortel in the late afternoon: May 4th, 2011
Introduction
When testing web interfaces, it’s convenient to use an intuitive tool like Selenium IDE, it’s easy to use and can be used by non-technical people, but it is solely meant for record and playback of test-scripts. One of its limitations is that it misses sufficient options for documenting and managing tests. Furthermore it misses an interface with the backend of the system under test (SUT), to setup preconditions for a test or for instance to manipulate or read from a database.
Fitnesse is a great tool to do just that, it has the Wiki to manage tests and it by default has a setup and teardown mechanism, it’s easy to add non invasive testfixtures to interface directly with your SUT. The downside is that it is incapable of doing webtests.
We now have the glue that combines the two, it’s called Xebium!
Posted by Andrew Phillips at around evening time: May 3rd, 2011
Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized, on-demand application landscape and what fundamental improvements will need to come before deployment matures into the invisible, it just works™ experience build is today.
In this first post, we’ll focus on some of the changes and trends across the industry that have brought such increased business attention to the area of release, deployment and management of applications.
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Posted by Niklas Odding in the early morning: May 3rd, 2011
This Blog is a kick off to for many writings about architecture in an Agile World. We will explore the topic from all the views possible, in order to gain a better understanding about it. By doing so, we hope to create a community of followers, who would also like to contribute or discuss about this topic.
Xebia is helping many organizations in the Netherlands, France, the United States and India with implementing an agile way of system development. In most of the cases the Scrum method is applied and very good results are achieved. Business and IT are working much closer together, resulting in more quality and much more customer satisfaction. However, lately we also see a trend in problems that seem to occur in (almost) every organization. Software is developed in a fast way with high quality, but it takes forever to get it in production. The more teams are being formed, the more interdependencies between the teams occur (more…)