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T-minus 4 weeks

We're continuing to tout the upcoming availability (about a month) of mobile Web development technology, which will be available as a stand-alone product as well as incorporated into MyEclipse releases in the future at no charge to subscribers.

One of the sweetest bullet points of this tooling is the ability to use what you already know (CSS, JavaScript, HTML) to create rich, powerful applications for the iPhone.

As our VP of Technology coined in a recent media article: "no funky subsets of Java to use [Java ME or Android's Java SE minus random stuff] or native languages [Objective-C and XCode for iPhone or C++ for Symbian]. What millions of [mobile] developers need to know, they already know: HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript. All standardized and ready to go..."

And, these tools won't be limited to the iPhone moving forward. Many of the popular current and upcoming devices (including the Palm Pre) support the same Web standards, which will enable future programs to deploy across devices with minimal platform-specific modifications. Best of all: NO APP STORES to deal with.

You might think that Web applications can never be as rich or satisfying as native programs. We beg to differ. Take a peek:

Coming in a month or less, so stay tuned!

What appearance do you wish to see in MyEclipse?

MyEclipse is a user-driven product. Your opinion truly matters. Over the years we have added features and functionality based on customer requests. As we have done in the past, your voice can be heard loud and clear through an easy poll. Let us know what you want to see!

Vote now!

Note: submitting to the poll requires a registration on the MyEclipse site (i.e. you must be logged in) to avoid spam or erroneous votes. If you do not wish to register, please leave your preference in a comment here. The choices available are:

• Add PHP Support
• Add a Java Profiler
• Add Grails Support
• Add Struts 2 Support
• Add JBoss Seam Support
• Add Ruby on Rails Support
• Enhanced JSF/Facelets Support
• Enhanced Ajax/JavaScript Tools
• Enhanced Swing/Swing Framework Support
• Enhanced DB Tool Support

MyEclipse 7.0 has arrived: Best alloy for JavaScript and REST Web Services

For all of you who have been patiently waiting, your patience is being rewarded today! Genuitec is proud to announce the immediate availability of MyEclipse 7.0.

Download now!

This newest production release is built upon Eclipse 3.4.1/Ganymede and delivers the most comprehensive environment for Ajax and unmatched support for REST Web Services in the Eclipse space.

MyEclipse 7.0 is delivered on top of the Pulse Eclipse Management Platform, enabling users to customize and maintain MyEclipse environments both at the individual and corporate level.

Users will also note enhanced support and delivery of Maven. As an enhancement of the Maven4MyEclipse tooling found in 6.5, users can now choose between using Maven in its raw format or the fully-integrated Maven4MyEclipse solution. This allows more full customization of Maven tool capabilities dictated by user needs.

“The sheer breadth of options available to MyEclipse users with this release is truly daunting,” said Pete Carapetyan, product manager for Genuitec. “7.0 is a great blend of filling in some customer-requested feature gaps and polishing the already rich set of tools. I think our users will be very pleased with the advances.”

See postings on The ServerSide and DZone today for your chance to win a free MyEclipse 7.0 license.

Take MyEclipse 7.0 for a free trial or download it today. As always, existing customers receive this upgrade at no charge.

Allison, Genuitec, LLC

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IO achievement - Tar vs. File vs. Byte streams

One of the most classic patterns in software is the producer-consumer pattern. There is a module producing data, and a module reading it for further processing. Moreover, in order to achieve better performance, usually there are many consumer modules running on many different threads while the producer (or several producers) run on its own thread. [...]

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MyEclipse: The Switzerland of Software

Despite acumen to the adverse the appliance development accoutrement bazaar is accepting abate not beyond

Companies are blasting their assets into AppDev accoutrement which has fueled a contempo flurry of acquisitions RedHat/Jboss/Exadel Oracel/BEA/Workshop/NitroX Embarcadero/Codegear and the aftereffect has created a deluge of bell-ringer lock-in technologies and account endless Even Hewlett Packard's accommodation to access EDS may be a aboriginal footfall against a middleware and AppDev accoutrement play For these big players in exchange it is artlessly the attributes of the barbarian to attending for an always-bigger bazaar allotment

Not to rub alkali in any recently-opened wounds but that leaves a vanishingly baby amount of authentic absolute Enterprise/Web software accoutrement companies; and that includes Genuitec

But why do absolute vendors abide to angle alpine as some of the ivory building of accepted apparatus capacity blast The acknowledgment may lay in the “big boys'” all-embracing business strategies The M O of ample companies has frequently been to either carry their accoutrement barter into purchasing beyond accouterments pieces or to accord abroad the accoutrement as add-ons to middleware casework or accouterments sales In abbreviate development accoutrement today assume to serve a agency to and end rather than the best absorption of the user or to reflect accepted acceptance patterns

Thankfully the old aphorism of “the chump is consistently right” now applies to software accoutrement The chump is ambitious added adaptability beneath lock-in and greater customization options from their applique and they are not consistently annoyed with the big boys' acknowledgment as this recent blog about a presentation by Neal Ford demonstrates As a aftereffect of this annoyance users are generally axis to absolutely vendor-neutral customer-focused and not lock-in decumbent apparatus suites

The abstraction of vendor-neutral software is simple one to grasp: a developer encounters abounding altered needs during the day irrespective of their development accoutrement capabilities They again about-face to alfresco companies to ample these needs so they can do their job added finer These alfresco companies advance accoutrement for their users rather than for specific accouterments or software endless They admit that developers' calmly calmly get angry if customizing their IDEs to fit altered projects and accoutrement all-important for commutual their projects aural the constraints of lock-in accoutrement

Genuitec has championed the vendor-neutral archetypal in the accoutrement amplitude with the MyEclipse band of articles We accept stepped abroad from any one operating arrangement accouterments assemblage software array or “it wasn't invented here” mentality Our barter plan on a deluge of altered projects with altered accouterments vendors and requirements so the MyEclipse aggregation developed an IDE that is accordant with assorted servers acceptance patterns and platforms

As an archetype Bounce and Hide cipher bases do not by itself play accurately calm but their bifold functionality is one of the a lot of frequently acclimated configurations for web development A part of the abounding firsts MyEclipse has chip both accustomed them bifold adequacy and brought two actual altered camps calm in a customer-friendly way – and by chump appeal Analogously Genuitec ported the Matisse GUI Artist from Sun's NetBeans activity to accommodate our users with accepted Beat functionalities Why Because our barter asked us to and we were just crazy abundant to do it Matisse isn't an Concealment activity and is not natively accordant with Concealment But we admit that some technologies “outside” the acceptable Concealment capabilities still accept amount – abnormally if they are based on chump appeal

Relating this to beginning account a lot of of us are acquainted of the contempo buyout of BEA by Answer MySQL by Sun CodeGear by Embarcadero and a aggregation of added acquisitions in our amplitude If you are appliance these accoutrement what will appear to your assemblage in the advancing months You may be bound in and at the benevolence of the new company's play on them A vendor-neutral band-aid like MyEclipse can calmly allay these apropos with abounding abutment for over 30 appliance servers and hot-sync deployment This blazon of accepted abutment not alone allowances the chump in agreement of account but aswell in agreement of adherence Vendor-neutral companies who abide alfresco the boundaries action the user abundant accoutrement they charge after annoying about a company's acceptable continuing

We are not arguing the charge for developers to accept any specific tools; nor are we demography abandon with which accouterments systems are best Instead we focus on carrying the a lot of chip complete and affordable band-aid accessible to our users behindhand of their bearings

In accretion actual absolutely aloof allows companies like Genuitec to amount the spectrum of the newest and a lot of accepted technologies and bear those to our barter We are aloof with what solutions are aggressive with one addition which allows us to accept technologies that serve barter the best not those that serve a beyond accumulated calendar Our abandon from these agendas enables developers to do their jobs with the technologies they appeal

You‘ll apprehension there are actual few tools-only companies larboard in the amplitude and they‘re vendor-neutral and absolutely common Accompaniment

Allison Genuitec LLC

                   
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Exposing collections: paranoia vs assurance approaches

Whenever a chic in my archetypal contains a accumulating which requires that accurate affliction be taken with its items there’s an centralized agitation apropos how to betrayal it to added classes And with this there are two above schools: one the paranoia-based access which doesn’t acquiesce alien cipher to blow the collection’s centralized items and

Project Darkstar Assemblage Testing and Apish objects

Ever back I started application TDD analysis apprenticed development methods in my plan I never chock-full I rarely alpha a activity after alive how I’ll analysis it and not just in Java: C# Objective-C and Python as able-bodied I’ve begin that TDD can be done in the a lot of absurd places such as servlets application Cactus