If you are a NetBeans user working with Maven, you're in luck with NetBeans 6.7.1! This latest release comes with a swathe of cool features to help you work with your Maven projects pretty much out-of-the-box.
Grails is an excellent, highly productive development framework that positively encourages good development and testing practices. This article shows how to set up a Continuous Integration build job to compile and test your Grails application in Hudson, for automated continuous integration.
Want to provide maps in your web application? The Google Maps API is straightforward to call from Java, and with an Ajax-ian approach, you can make it extra user-friendly. John Ferguson Smart shows you how to combine these approaches.
Jabber is a popular and widely supported XML-based API for exchanging instant messages. You could compose the messages by hand, but there's an alternative. John Ferguson Smart introduces the Smack API, which makes it easy to use Jabber services from Java.
Standards are so much easier to adhere to when your tools do it for you. Thanks to JAX-WS and its implementation in application servers like GlassFish, you can write web services as plain ol' Java objects, just by adding a few annotations. John Ferguson Smart shows how it's done.
The best way to integrate in a hurry is to have been doing it all along. This practice of continuous integration is greatly helped by automated tools to check out and build your team's code on a more or less constant basis. Apache Continuum offers a free and open source tool to do continuous...
Oftentimes, your new code replaces an older system whose data must be migrated to the new system. This isn't a process that gets a lot of thought, but John Ferguson Smart says it probably should. In this article, he shows how an iterative, test-driven approach can save you a lot of headaches...
