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There now is a beta version available for Jazz / Rational Team Concert integration in Visual Studio. See this video for more information. I've seen the VS client in action at the RSDC. It's still pretty limited compared to the Eclipse based tooling, but good enough for developers to just work with the version system and some quick work ...

I visited J-Fall 2008 today, another successful Java conference organized by the NLJUG. J-Fall/J-Spring are the biggest Java events in the Netherlands, it's always fun to visit, see what the latest developments are, what people are doing and how crazy the conference booths are. Although actually the booths were pretty quiet this time, which is ...

Finally, a ship date is set for JavaFX: the new UI toolkit from Sun, designed to go head to head with Flash and Silverlight. December 2nd (2008) is the date that JavaFX 1.0 final will be shipped. Sun will also announce some other news regarding the future of Swing and JavaFX at the Devoxx conference. It's great news that at least this year, ...

Rational Team Concert version 1.0.1 was released last week. The web site got a little refresh, check out the new overview of capabilities if you want to know more. There is also a little introduction video up on youtube with cheesy fake animations and lots of buzz words, but at least it has a little jazzy style to it. Although the number suggests ...

Shameless plug: If you are a member of the NLJUG Dutch Java User Group you receive Java Magazine for free. The latest edition of Java Magazine contains my article about the IBM Jazz ALM tooling project. If you are interested in ALM tooling or what IBM is up to with Jazz, be sure to read it! If you are not a NLJUG member yet, sign up! It's ...

Without a lot of buzz, Sun released update 10 of Java 6 yesterday on the download page. Update 10 brings a lot of improvements I've written about before and is the base release for the JavaFX framework. Update 10 also has a consumer download for Windows 64, which is a first (previous Sun Java 64 bit versions were JDK/server vms only). I run ...

FindBugs 1.3.5 has been released yesterday. FindBugs is a static analysis tool that automatically finds common bugs in compiled Java code. It's open source, easy to set up and usually reports "real" potential issues in code. Most people I know who first see FindBugs in action love it: free extra feedback just after creating the code, ...

Last week the Eclipse Process Framework project released a new version of their tooling and processes. EPF is basically a tool to build a process web site with, as well as open source versions of popular processes like OpenUP (RUP), Scrum and XP. With the new release EPF also provides a collection of "practices". The published EPF ...

Unless you live under a rock or are far away from Java EE development you'd probably heard that good old Larry used some lunch money to buy BEA, one of the bigger middleware companies. At my current project, we use BEA Weblogic application server, so there was a bit of suspense regarding the future of this product. thankfully Oracle chose to ...

I'm truly hating most IBM software. I don't like the servers (specially Portal Server), I don't like the development tooling (RAD actually makes Eclipse suck) and I don't like all the tools such as ClearQuest/ClearCase. Today I did see something from IBM that even I think is impressive however... Peter Hendriks gave an excellent ...