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Christian Belka,
16.6.2011 |
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Spring Roo, a new contender to Grails and Ruby on Rails, provides flexible scaffolding for Spring based applications. We used Spring Roo in a web project to quickly provide working software in order to discuss features and gather feedback. This article shows how we generated an early prototype and transitioned to early development and then to production code.
In this second installment, we conclude our evaluation of XForms implementations and explain why we ultimately preferred the Orbeon engine. I walk you through a XForms sample to explain essential concepts. My team has spent quite a lot of time understanding the Orbeon architecture and I discuss our findings, including separate-deployment configuration and state handling.
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.
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.
