Peter Hendriks

Eclipse Helios and Sun/Oracle Update 21

First of all, if you are using any version of Eclipse (3.1-3.6) and are migrating to Sun/Oracle JDK update 21, be wary of this bug: 319514 . Basically, Eclipse checks if the VM is Sun to add a "PermSize" flag, but now it is renamed to Oracle...

Published 18-07-2010 17:40 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Eclipse, Mylyn

Grids and comments

Because of time constraints I am spending a bit less time on my blog lately. Unfortunately, the spam filter on this blog requires some manual attention, and I also had trouble with "normal" people who used bad language and were clearly not looking...

Published 29-11-2009 15:34 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Websphere, grid

Eclipse Galileo SR1 (3.5.1): enterprise polish

Eclipse is used as a core tooling platform in big and small software development projects, using various plug-ins and programming languages, all around the world. Scaling is important for Eclipse, both in time (some projects take years), and size. Last...

Published 26-09-2009 12:25 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Eclipse

"Jazz" ALM tool Team Concert: now free for 10 developers

Today, the IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) "Jazz" team released version 2.0.0.1, an update to the major 2.0 release last June. The update contains a ton of bug fixes and feature enhancements, which is always nice. However, the big changes are...

Published 22-09-2009 20:46 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Jazz, IBM, Rational Team Concert

Injecting JSR330 into JSR299

Last week, I blogged about Guice 2.0 and the state of Java EE 6 dependency injection: JSR299 , competing with another injection standard: JSR330 . Well, the wise men of the Java EE 6 spec, just before finalizing it, have just decided to adopt JSR 330...

Published 05-08-2009 21:04 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Spring, Guice, Java EE

Guice 2.0 presentation: no more reasons not to like dependency injection

Dependency Injection is one of the most controversial improvements made in software development over the last few years. Dependency Injection really helps modularization of code, which in turn, among other things, greatly improves the ability to unit...

Published 31-07-2009 21:29 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Google, Guice

Eclipse Galileo: tons of new stuff

The Eclipse open source initiative is one of the biggest open source communities currently active, and since mostly backed by businesses, has a strong quality and real-world focus. Eclipse hosts a ton of projects , and most of the mature projects participate...

Published 19-07-2009 14:37 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Eclipse

Returned from the RSC: back to the rest of the world

Well, the IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 is over again. It was once again a great conference with lots of interesting new developments and insights. The Jazz products are evolving very fast, and they really try to improve on weak points first and...

Published 09-06-2009 12:46 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Jazz, RSDC

Rational Software Conference 2009: Real, Smart and Green

After a year, we're back in Orlando, home of Mickey Mouse, roller coasters, hamburgers and Coca Cola, and of course the IBM Rational Software Conference 2009. The conference is already well under way, it started last Sunday, but with an ever increasing...

Published 02-06-2009 23:13 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Agile, rup, Mylyn, Jazz, IBM, RSDC

Jazz 2.0 release candidate

RC1 for Rational Team Concert (RTC) 2.0 was released yesterday . Even though it's only been a year since the 1.0 release, RTC got a lot of updates. First of all, there is now an Enterprise edition, which allows an unlimited amount of developers on...

Published 17-05-2009 19:05 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Jazz, IBM, Rational

Why tools matter

Improving software development productivity is a much discussed topic, with many different schools of thought. Some will say you need to get people who can " Hit the High Notes ", others will focus on teamwork dynamics as a means to ultimate...

Published 03-05-2009 17:34 by peterhe

Filed under: software development

J-Spring 2009, full of surprises

Well, it's spring again, so time for another NLJUG J-Spring event! The NLJUG J-Spring/J-Fall is the biggest Java event in the Netherlands, a one day conference held in Bussum. I am a regular visitor on this conference, interesting sessions, a good...

Published 15-04-2009 20:20 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, J-Spring, NLJUG

Google AppEngine for Java: the cloud keeps getting bigger

Google joined the cloud computing turf a year ago with " Google AppEngine ", a framework to enable relatively simple applications to be deployed directly in the cloud. Google AppEngine only supported Python as the programming language, and required...

Published 08-04-2009 21:06 by peterhe

Filed under: Java, Google, AppEngine

The user interface beyond Star Trek

Everyone knows about Star Trek and the science fiction genre. Science fiction plays with future technologies that do not exist yet. While not everything in Star Trek has now been invented, when it comes to user interfaces, we are pretty close. We now...

Published 15-03-2009 19:07 by peterhe

Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship

By now, everyone in the software development industry probably heard about "agile" development, formally described in the Agile Manifesto . Agile was a rebellious response to the continuing push of vendor-driven processes and procedures, which...

Published 08-03-2009 15:06 by peterhe

Filed under: Agile, Process, software development, practices, craftsmanship

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