Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the early morning: May 9th, 2008
Today was the third day of the conference. Another couple of hours to go and then it is all over again. The fatigue is kicking in, and we’re starting to run on reserve power. The topics of today included:
- Mylyn
- Groovy
- Semantic Web
- SOA
- OSGi
Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the early morning: May 7th, 2008
We’re here at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Today the JavaOne conference kicked off. The coming 75 hours are packed with Java, Java and more Java! To give an impression of what we’re seeing here, we will provide you with a daily blog.
Today’s higlights included:
- SCA (service component architecure)
- GlassFish
- JavaFX
- Effective Java and defective Java
Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the late afternoon: February 28th, 2008
We’ve all being there, we’ve all had this on a project once or maybe even more times. The assignment is to build an application but there is no data for you to work with. There could be any number of reasons this could be the case – to name a few, the web-service that should be connected is not done in time, the database migration is postponed. Then someone has to create database scripts with test data, or implement a test web-services. This is all a waste of time.
But lucky for you now there is a solution.
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Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the early evening: December 26th, 2007
I have used the mylyn plugin before (it was called mylar then), but I never had a project where it could be really useful. But now I that I have, I’m really enthusiastic.
First let me explain what mylyn is. According to their own website it is a: “Task-Focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy”. It does this by integrating with your task repository (issue tracking systems like jira, trac, bugzilla), so that when you need to switch to or from issues it will maintain the context of the issue you were working on, so that when you switch back you will have all the files you had opened and that we’re important then. This will reduce the overhead associated with switching between tasks.