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Reinhard Nägele,
12.5.2010 |
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Warp Persist is a persistence integration library for Google Guice. It comes with built-in support for Hibernate, JPA, and db4o. Warp Persist proved to be lightweight and unobstrusive. Especially useful in our case was its runtime support for multiple databases, besides other features, such as declarative transactions or dynamic finders.
Dr. Fabian Stäber,
28.4.2010 |
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Our Java project team has only three developers. We liked the idea to have our tests and builds run automatically and to have a central dashboard. However, we didn’t want to invest much time and expected a continuous integration server to be overkill. But as we started to play around with Hudson, we were quite amazed: the system was up in 5 minutes, including builds, tests, and e-mail notification.
Designing a website nowadays always includes the task of optimizing the website for search engines. Otherwise you might have designed a brilliant website but nobody will be able to find it! Ideally, your site will be in the top 10 search results, i.e. on the first page. This blog series by Marcus Günther and Oliver Schmidt describes how to attain this goal. The first lesson is to master the art of being crawled by a search engine robot.
At our recent Java User Group Munich (JUGM) meeting, Vaclav Pech from JetBrains has demonstrated his company’s powerful Java/Groovy/Web IDE IntelliJ IDEA 9 and shared several not-so-obvious gems with us.
At the Spring S2G Forum in Munich, the Groovy project lead Guillaume Laforge elaborated on Groovy 1.7’s new and noteworthy improvements. There was a huge interest in Groovy at the forum, which reinforces our strategic investment in Groovy as a capable and mature JVM-based language. Overall, I got a lot of insights and have here prepared some illustrative examples.
