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Friend or FoePosted by editor on December 7, 2006 at 8:50 AM PST
Is your code behaving? Are you sure? How much are you using annotations? It's hard to think of a case where this Java 5.0 feature has been more enthusiastically embraced than Junit 4. A lot of the old habits -- what you import, what you name your tests, how you associate and run them -- are all out the window in favor of an annotations-based approach. But that's just scratching the surface. JUnit's embrace of annotations allows for simple expressions like "this test times out after 5000 milliseconds", things that weren't straightforward, or even practical, in earlier versions. Ralf Stuckert has a tour of the new version in today's Feature Article. In JUnit Reloaded explains why it's time to take up JUnit 4:
Have a look, see what's new, and see if it's something that you're ready to switch to, if you already haven't... or if it's worth switching back from TestNG for. In Java Today, the jMaki project has released its first 1.0 beta. jMaki is an Ajax framework that provides a lightweight model for creating JavaScript centric Ajax-enabled web applications using Java, PHP, and Phobos. As Greg Murray points out in his jMaki Beta 1.0 is Out! blog, "jMaki provides also provides a large set of sample JavaScript wrappers for common services and toolkits including Dojo, Flickr, Google, Mochikit, Spry, and Yahoo. Here is what jMaki provides:" He also has a handy list of jMaki's major features. The NetBeans community is proud to announce the first full releases of the NetBeans Visual Web Pack and the NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack. The NetBeans Visual Web Pack, allows you to rapidly and visually build standards-based web applications, including support for AJAX and JSF components. Meanwhile, the NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack provides support for a variety of C/C++ project types, and includes a makefile wizard. It also has sophisticated language model features, such as dynamic syntax highlighting, code completion, code folding and a class browser. So how is the GPL release of Sun's Java SE and ME implementations going over? GPL Java: An interview with lead Kaffe developer Dalibor Topic, predicts a flurry of interest: "I think Free Software developers will embrace the JDK as a strong Free Software platform. The wealth of Free Software commons available on the Java platform shows that many Free Software developers have enjoyed working with the platform despite the drawback of having to rely on non-free software until suitable Free Software implementations around GNU Classpath became viable. Now that Java is being liberated, I'd expect it to be used by even more Free Software developers than before, as 'the Java Trap' is a thing of the past." Dalibor also talks about the effects on Kaffe, his experiences compiling the HotSpot and javac code, and more. The fallout from the apparent collapse of SavaJe is underway in today's Weblogs, as John O'Conner points out writes in SavaJe CDC "Device of Show" is a No-Show: "Device of show? They're really a no-show. Like the mythical Phoenix bird, they may spring back to life someday if they can get more funding...but I'm not going to invest any more time in what looks like a turkey to me." Lorenzo Puccetti wonders about language appropriateness in Can XML capture the Dependency Injection pattern? "A short entry in defense of the Spring XML configuration metadata to create a fully configured system or application." Stuart Marks answers a question about Doing Cleanup in Public "In a response to my previous blog entry, JB asked whether we could have opened up the source code and then cleaned it up after the fact, in public. The question was about OpenJDK but it applies equally well to phoneME."
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