Some of the common questions relating to cyclomatic complexity are "How does my code compare to others?" and "What is a good number for a particular class?" The iPlasma project answers these questions (see Resources). iPlasma is a platform, created as a university project in Romania, for quality assessment of object-oriented design. It generates a pyramid, showing key metrics for your project along with comparisons to industry-standard ranges for those numbers.

Hades is a utility library to work with Data Access Objects implemented with Spring and JPA. The main goal is to ease the development and operation of a data access layer in application

When developing a mobile application, you need not focus on the limitations or capabilities of different browsers, as Trinidad enables you to develop applications that function properly on different browser types. The Trinidad renderer ensures that the target browser can consume contents correctly. It handles the variations in both browser implementations of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and system performance. For example, if a browser does not support XMLHttpRequest and is incapable of posting a partial page request to a server, support for AJAX enables the application to revert automatically to a full page submit so that the same page functions whether the browser supports XMLHttpRequest or not. Furthermore, if the target browser does no support JavaScript Trinidad will automatically render contents that work on HTML by removing all dependencies on JavaScript.

2007 entscheidet sich Oracle, die Quellcodes seines erfolgreichen Persistenz-Projektes TopLink an die Eclipse Foundation zu übergeben. Seither wird das Projekt unter dem Namen EclipseLink weiterentwickelt und wurde jüngst als Referenzimplementierung für die Java Persistence API 2.0 ausgewählt. EclipseLink-Lead Doug Clarke spricht im Interview mit dem Eclipse Magazin über die Hintergründe der Migration zur Eclipse Foundation und über die Vorzüge von EclipseLink gegenüber anderen Persistenz-Frameworks wie Hibernate.

While there are a number of references for Maven online, there is no single, well-written book that can serve as both a well-worn reference and an introduction. What we've tried to do with this effort is provide both a comprehensive reference and a narrative introduction to Maven. Published by O'Reilly, Maven: The Definitive Guide is written for both new and season Maven users.

In den letzten Teilen der Serie wurden bereits viele Neuerungen des JSR-286 vorgestellt und an konkreten Beispielen demonstriert. In diesem Teil wird der Schwerpunkt darauf gelegt, wie die entstandene Ausgabe gecached werden kann, um auch das Thema Performance nicht aus den Augen zu verlieren. Ein Überblick über die Annotation-Unterstützung des JSR-286 rundet die Einführung neuer Features ab.

SmartSprites will let you easily introduce and maintain CSS sprites in your designs. SmartSprites parses special directives you can insert into your original CSS to mark individual images to be turned into sprites. It then builds sprite images from the collected images and automatically inserts the required CSS properties into your style sheet, so that the sprites are used instead of the individual images. SmartSprites parses special directives you can insert into your original CSS to mark individual images to be turned into sprites. It then builds sprite images from the collected images and automatically inserts the required CSS properties to your style sheet, so that the sprites are used instead of the individual images. In other words, no tedious copying & pasting to your CSS when adding, removing or changing sprited images. Just work with your CSS and original images as usual and have SmartSprites automatically transform them to the sprite-powered version when necessary.

Spring hat sich mittlerweile für viele Projekte als Framework etabliert. Es stellt mit seiner umfangreichen Unterstützung für viele typische Herausforderungen eine universelle Hilfe bei der Java-Entwicklung dar. Die Version 3.0 wird einige interessante Erweiterungen bieten - dieser Artikel wirft einen ersten Blick auf die Neuerungen bis Meilenstein 1.

Lucene is an Open Source, mature and high-performance Java search engine. It is highly flexible, and scalable from hundreds to millions of documents. Luke is a handy development and diagnostic tool, which accesses already existing Lucene indexes and allows you to display and modify their content in several ways: * browse by document number, or by term * view documents / copy to clipboard * retrieve a ranked list of most frequent terms * execute a search, and browse the results * analyze search results * selectively delete documents from the index * reconstruct the original document fields, edit them and re-insert to the index * optimize indexes * and much more... Recent versions of Luke are also extensible through plugins and scripting. I started this project because I needed a tool like this. I decided to distribute it under Open Source license to express my gratitude to the Lucene team for creating such a high-quality product. Lucene is one of the landmark proofs that Open Source paradigm can result in high-quality and free products.