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NetBeans 7.1 – JavaFX 2.0 support, refactoring enhancements and great Maven 3 integration
Jan 6th
NetBeans 7.1 has just been released. It is interesting how NetBeans continues to evolve – after many doubts were raised with regard to its future after the Oracle-Sun acquisition. Oracle maintains two IDEs – each with its own objectives. JDeveloper to support Fusion Middleware development, NetBeans to propel the Java platform and its associates (Groovy/Grails, Scala) with even more focus on standards and open source. NetBeans also support PHP and C++ code development – though I have no personal experience worth mentioning in these areas.
NetBeans 7.1 is not a major overhaul – it is a continuation of the NetBeans IDE. However, it does add one major new area of functionality: JavaFX 2.0 support in addition to a number of valuable smaller enhancements. This article briefly touches upon a number of these enhancements – the one that most appealed to me. Download NetBeans 7.1 from http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html.
An interesting webcast (10 minutes) about the 7.1 release can be found here: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/overview-screencast.html.
Preparing your environment for modern open source Java libraries and frameworks using Git and Maven, throwing in Tomcat as a bonus
Jan 1st
In my investigations into jWebWSockets, Kaazing, Atmosphere, CometD 2 and other frameworks I came to understand that in order to get these frameworks installed, integrate them into my custom applications or run the samples to go with these products, it would be convenient if not essential to have an environment with Maven and Git operational – and having Tomcat ready to run helps too.
So I decided to set up these tools – and write a short article with some hints for future reference for me and anyone who might be interested. First of all, let me tell you that it took far shorter and far less trouble than I anticipated. It really was easy to have my environment prepared for big and beautiful things. In subsequent posts I will explain how to load and run the Atmosphere demos as well as the CometD 2 samples – leveraging the Maven and Git (and Tomcat) environment discussed in this article.
Weblogic deployment using the Oracle weblogic maven plugin
Jan 26th
With the PS3 release of the SOA Suite a new version, 10.3.4, of Weblogic has been released. Amongst others, this release also includes a new Weblogic Maven plugin (weblogic-maven-plugin) that allows interaction with Weblogic from within a Maven environment. As far as I know, this plugin is the successor of the Codehaus Weblogic plugin. That one was a bit difficult to use because it required some other not publicly available Weblogic dependencies which have now been included with the new plugin. Unfortunately, this plugin is not (yet?!) available in any of the public Maven repositories so you have to put it in your own repository. Because of the size (more than 50 MB) the plugin is not included with Weblogic as-is but must be created first just as other weblogic client utilities. The documentation of the new plugin describes in detail how to create and use the plugin. In this blog I’ll summarize them (NB, I assume you’re a little bit familiar Maven).
In summary:
- Create the plugin.
- Deploy it to an artifact repository.
- Use the plugin in your project.
S313467 – The ADF Build Process Using Maven and Hudson
Sep 22nd
This is a shameless plug for my presentation tomorrow, Thursday 23, at Oracle Open World:
Can you build, test, and deploy your application within a minute? Do you have a fresh deployment when you arrive in the office? Are you being notified when the build fails? Can anyone in the team build and deploy the application? Can you automatically run your tests and create the build without user interaction? Do you know exactly which version has been deployed?
If your answer to most of these questions is “no,” then this session is for you. The session will show you how you can use Maven and Hudson to leverage your Oracle ADF development process. This session will show you how to: * Test, build, and deploy your application * Manage your libraries * Generate reports and documentation.
See you at Thursday, September 23, 11:00 | Hotel Nikko, Peninsula
An evening about Maven
May 26th
Recently we had a great session at AMIS about Maven, presented by Jason van Zyl, founder of the Apache Maven project and CTO of Sonatype. He gave us an overview of the new Maven 3 and other projects they are working on. In addition he gave us an insight in the world of Maven. For example, last three years, the usage of the Maven central repository has been doubled every year, with about 4 million unique IP addresses in 2009. They’ve also reorganized and improved the process for uploading artifacts to Maven central to a self service approach, using the staging function of Nexus Professional.
Automatic testing Oracle Service Bus using Hudson, maven and SoapUI
Feb 23rd
A lot of current projects are implementing some sort of service based architecture. Testing in this architecture becomes more complex. When implementing an OSB project with Scrum you test-automation is imperative. Scrum will require more frequent testing of your system. This is only feasible (in time and money) when you automate as much as possible.
Using soapUI you are able to create visually SOAP tests on your OSB implementation and running them against the defined infrastructure (develop, test, acceptance). SoapUI enables with easy tools to implements verification and validation of the responses of your OSB implementation. When running the test you are also able to set limits in SLA response times on all the calls. This way you are able to monitor depreciation of performance in older parts of your OSB implementation when adding new services.
You can record and edit your SOAP test easy with the soapUI interface and edit it later. When you maven-enable your project it is quite easy running your tests when you implement the “maven-soapui-plugin” (see my other posting http://technology.amis.nl/blog/3061/automated-soap-testing-with-maven). In the meantime version 3.0 of this plugin is released.
When implementing this with Hudson you do not have to convert the results.xml into a Surefire report. Hudson will manage this for you. Hudson will also enable you with an historical overview of all your test results.
Getting started with PrimeFaces on GlassFish v3
Jan 7th
According to the PrimeFaces website, “PrimeFaces is an open source component suite for Java Server Faces featuring 70+ Ajax powered rich set of JSF components. Additional TouchFaces module features a UI kit for developing mobile web applications.“. Since it is an OpenSource JSF implementation that is very close to releasing JSF 2.0 compliant components, I figured it was time to try it out on GlassFish v3.
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OOW 2009 – And they call that a “patch set”? Marvels coming up in ADF 11gR1 PS 1
Oct 12th
Last Friday I attended a product briefing at Oracle HQ that prepared me for today’s Oracle Open World 2009 keynote presentation by Ted Farrell on development tools and middleware. Oracle will soon (some time November?) release what it calls Patch Set 1 for the Fusion Middleware 11g stack and this article goes into the new bits and pieces that we will see coming up in JDeveloper 11g and ADF 11g. Which clearly demonstrates that ‘patch set’ is misnomer of sorts. Sure enough, there will patches – fixes for bugs – in this release, but the list of new functionality and features (Duncan Mills boasted about 550+ new features) make it clear that there is much more to it than just patches. I was more than a little (pleasantly) surprised with this list. Let me share some of the details- and unfortunately I cannot demonstrate anything at this point as the software is not yet available.
Some of the common themes that link the new elements together include developer productivity (and fun), team productivity, end user experience and best practices. And of course filling some of the holes that existed in the previous releases – in terms of things not working and also obvious things simply not there or not implemented consistently.
Automated SOAP testing with maven and the SoapUI plugin
Mar 26th
Currently there are few tools that can support testing SOAP interfaces. Both Jmeter and SoapUI are suited for testing soap interfaces. SoapUI is explicitly created for testing SOAP interfaces and Jmeter has a SOAP support since version 2.3.x. I have worked with both tools and I prefer SoapUI. It has an intuitive user interface and is flexible. (Please also have a look at the blog of Jeroen)
You can run SoapUI stand alone but I prefer to integrate these kinds of tools with an automated process. Below you will find instructions for running SoapUI as a part of a maven build. This makes it possible to run your automated SOAP tests in Maven with a build process like Hudson. Combined with automatic deployment it is possible to support an agile software development process that supports frequent delivery of versions and continuous testing.
Maven supports SoapUI with the Maven SoapUI plugin. Read the rest of this entry »
Maven based configuration management with automatic build number
Nov 14th
An important questions in software deployment and testing is “What is the version of the software I am looking at”. It is frustrating for a tester or an end user not knowing if the planned upgrade is performed or not. Having a solid version numbering policy is a solution to overcome these problems.
There are several places where you want to have the version number of your software available:
- visible for the end user on the login screen.
- visible in the software distribution package (war / ear) for the deployment operator.
- visible in configuration files.
- and even visible in the deployed online manual.
The task of proper version numbering can be performed manually. This takes a solid knowledge of all places where this number is used and a good deal of perseverance when performing these repeating actions.
In a project under development, using an agile development method, there will be frequent builds and releases (daily or even hourly). This asks for automated build numbering. When using maven and subversion, this task can be automated with the maven buildnumber plugin.
