Development tools for continuous software delivery

Software developers build applications faster when they have the right tools. Review the essential tools every software developer needs, such as Git, Jenkins, IDEs such as Eclipse and build tools including Maven and Gradle. Also, gain insight into how AI and machine learning are pushing software development tool capabilities to new levels to help developers generate quality code.

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  • News 01 Apr 2004

    Understanding Class.forName() - Java

    Dynamic loading of Java classes at runtime provides tremendous flexibility in the development of enterprise systems. It provides for the basis of "application servers", and allows even simpler, lighter-weight systems to accomplish some of the same ends. Within Java, dynamic-loading is typically achieved by calling the forName method on the class java.lang.Class; however, when Class.forName is called from within an Extension, strange errors can occur. This paper describes why those errors occur, and how Java2 provides a facility, called the "Thread context ClassLoader", to avoid them. Continue Reading

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    • Ted Neward
  • News 01 Jan 2004

    Test-Driven Development Series Part 2 - Testing Java Classes with JUnit

    The first article is a concept piece explaining why testing helps in an enterprise server-side software environment. Most software applications today are written in tiers: the presentation tier, the logic tier (where business logic is kept), and the data tier. The logic tier is the meat of the application and comprises all of the rules and actions of the application. Continue Reading

    By
    • Wellie Chao
  • News 01 May 2002

    Improving J2EE Application Performance

    This article describes how to achieve a high level of performance in a J2EE application, independent of which Application Server you use. Continue Reading

    By
    • Scott Marlow
  • News 01 Apr 2002

    Clustering Technologies: In Memory Session Replication in Tomcat 4

    In this article we will cover one of the clustering technologies, HTTP session replication, that is used within the J2EE model. There is an example is provided of how session replication can be implemented using Tomcat in conjunction with JavaGroups, a communication protocol which can perform reliable multicast operations to transfer session state between nodes. Continue Reading

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    • Filip Hanik