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Hate Java? You’re fighting the wrong battle

June 13, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

All the above industries are billion dollar players in our economy. All of the above industries write new COBOL and mainframe assembler programs. I’m not making this up, I work in the last industry, and I’ve interviewed and interned in the others.
For god sakes people, COBOL, invented in 1959, is still being written today, for real! We’re not talking maintaining a few lines here and there, we’re talking thousands of new lines, every day, to implement new functionality and new requirements.

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cobol, java

neo4j – open source nosql Graph Database

June 7, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Neo4j is a high-performance graph engine with all the features of a mature and robust database. The programmer works with an object-oriented, flexible network structure rather than with strict and static tables — yet enjoys all the benefits of a fully transactional, enterprise-strength database. For many applications, Neo4j offers performance improvements on the order of 1000x or more compared to relational DBs.

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java, nosql

graphdb, java, nosql, objectdb

Akka Project – event-driven, scalable and fault-tolerant architectures on the JVM

June 7, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Using the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory we raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications.
For fault-tolerance we adopt the “Let it crash” / “Embrace failure” model which have been used with great success in the telecom industry to build applications that self-heal, systems that never stop.

(Full Story: Akka Project – event-driven, scalable and fault-tolerant architectures on the JVM)

java, scalability

eventdriven, java, scalability

JRockit is Now Free and Other Java License Updates

May 19, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

JRockit is now free (gratis) for development and internal production use on general purpose computers. Commercial features continue to require a commercial license.

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java, jvm, oracle

java, jrockit, jvm, oracle

Goose – article extractor

May 16, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Project Goose is an article extractor written in Java using Maven for the dependencies. It’s an open source project born from Gravity Labs http://gravity.com, Its goal is to take a webpage, perform calculations and extract the main text of the article as well as make recommendations on what image might be the most relevant image on the page. Goose aims to create an easy to use, scalable extractor that can plug into any application that needs to extract structure from unstructured web pages.

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github, java, scraping, summary

Dynamic Code Evolution JVM

May 10, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

The Dynamic Code Evolution Virtual Machine (DCE VM) is a modification of the Java HotSpot(TM) VM that allows unlimited redefinition of loaded classes at runtime. The current hotswapping mechanism of the HotSpot(TM) VM allows only changing method bodies. Our enhanced VM allows adding and removing fields and methods as well as changes to the super types of a class.

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java, jvm

JUnit Test Generator

May 10, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Creates JUnit test cases for JAVA classes which require testing to be performed. Will save the testers time and will give several hints into testing. Automatically generates all test methods, and constructor tests which can be tested.

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automatedtesting, java, junit

Reply to “Top 10 reasons why I don’t like JSF”

April 21, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

JSF is not perfect, no framework is. JSF 2 is a major upgrade over JSF 1.2 and if you include a rich component library such as RichFaces (and plus Seam) you get a pretty powerful tool set for building Java web applications.

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java, jsf

JSON Serialization with FlexJSON

April 20, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Flexjson is a lightweight library for serializing and deserializing Java objects into and from JSON. What’s different about Flexjson is it’s control over what gets serialized allowing both deep and shallow copies of objects.

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java, json

Sonar – Monitor Project and Code Quality

April 18, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Sonar enables to cover quality on 7 axes and so to report on:
Duplicated codeCoding standardsUnit testsComplex codePotential bugsCommentsDesign and architecture

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codereview, continuousintegration, java, metrics, quality