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A Tale of Two Repository Managers: Nexus and Artifactory Compared and Contrasted

There are several Maven repository managers on the market, but the two most prominent and most powerful are without doubt Nexus and Artifactory. Both these...

4 replies - 8501 views - 01/04/10 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Continuous Integration at Eclipse.org

As we near the end of the year it's a good time to look back at how we're doing things and to look for opportunities for improvement. Last year Eclipse.org...

0 replies - 2666 views - 01/02/10 by David Green in Articles

Why Do I Break The Rules? And Who Can Stop Me?

I've been developing software for quite a few years now and I notice that sometimes I break the rules, those best practices that I know are right to follow. ...

10 replies - 10165 views - 12/29/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Webapps with Eclipse and Maven (maven-war-plugin)

Web applications created by the Eclipse IDE contains an annoying folder WebContent to host the web resources and deployment descriptors. While natural...

16 replies - 27146 views - 12/28/09 by Felipe Gaúcho in Articles

OSGi Service Hook to Log All Service Invocations Using Dynamic Proxy

In this post, I will present an elegant solution to log all services invocations in an OSGi environment. After developing and using some bundles we need to...

1 replies - 9456 views - 12/28/09 by Slim Ouertani in Articles

Effective Debugging: Conditional Breakpoints

One of the most important developer activities is debugging. In my college days, we were forced to use simple text editors for our software development, so I...

7 replies - 30604 views - 12/28/09 by James Sugrue in Tips and Tricks

Bundlor 1.0 RC1 - Managing OSGi Bundle Manifests

For developers who want to manage their own bundle manifests, but need a little help to automating the details, like specifying package versions across a range...

0 replies - 9728 views - 12/23/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Revising Eclipse Development Process: Release Reviews

I made a mention to Mike a couple of weeks back that I wanted to make a few changes to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). He seemed to think that evolving...

0 replies - 2677 views - 12/23/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

That Rotting Design

We’ve all experienced that sinking feeling when maintaining a piece of crappy software. Has my change broken the system in some unintended way? What is the...

1 replies - 9300 views - 12/22/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

A Look Back At 2009 For Eclipse

As we reach the end of 2009, it's the perfect time to take a look back at another successful year for the Eclipse community. As well as giving my own thoughts...

0 replies - 8036 views - 12/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Impala: An Alternative Module Framework

Modular programming is a growing trend in application development.  OSGi is at the center of the modularity movement, however, it is a complex system that...

9 replies - 13360 views - 12/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/19

Ellison Plans to Dispense Cloud Computing BeatdownNow that Oracle expects the EU to approve its acquisition of Sun, CEO Larry Ellison revealed his plans to...

0 replies - 13810 views - 12/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/12/17

FTC Accuses Intel of Stunting AMD Chip PerformanceIntel has been charged with illegally stifling competition by the Federal Trade Commission.  The FTC alleges...

0 replies - 10225 views - 12/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Five Features That Make Eclipse My IDE of Choice

Like a lot of developers out there, Eclipse is at the core of all my development activities. It's been that way for me for years. In this article, I'm going to...

16 replies - 14619 views - 12/16/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Building a Marketplace Client

The next step for Eclipse Marketplace (MP) is bringing MP direct to the Eclipse user desktop.  We want to build a MP client that will be distributed in all...

0 replies - 2229 views - 12/15/09 by Ian Skerrett in Articles