SQE - BugFix

The latest published version contained two minor issues

• Java Classes with default package resulted in NPE during trying to annotate (#41)
  
• Wrong thread usage for Retouche

An update is available.

SQE - JavaOne 2008 / NetBeans 6.1 - Version

There is a new version of SQE uploaded to the SQE-UpdateCenter.

Consider this still an alpha version. New in this snapshot:

• SQE Control Center (modeled after Profiler UI)
• pre-configure codedefect tools that will be run on a project (per project basis)
• JumpToSource should now work for most use cases
• new editor buttons for switching annotations on/off (per project basis)
• better tasklist integration for FindBugs Result
  
• Experimental support for dependency analysis
• Experimental information topcomponent for projects (should help verifying the project setup)

Additionally a lot of issues have been fixed:

• problems running under unix
• problems with accessing sqe.properties
• problems with changes in 6.1 filesystem access
  
• .... (see issue list at sqe.dev.java.net)

Upcoming

• Refresh on save/compile (especially useful for tasklist)
• further UI enhancements (windowgroup for codedefect results)
• configurable checkstyle.xml (at least)
• fix pmd configuration problems
• fix findbugs configuration problems
• quick-fix for disabling detectors (still under evaluation)
• RefactorIt integration (still far future)

So check it out and give your feedback.

Since not all spec versions may have been increased you may better delete your old sqe1 cluster and start with a fresh installation following the described procedure. The source is still not available but we are really trying to get it out (promised).

JavaPolis reloaded

The JavaPolis conference has been renamed:

Javoxx

See for yourself at www.javoxx.com.

... cu 8th-12th December in Antwerp!

RefactorIt open sourced

Behind the scenes a couple of people were already talking about RefactorIt going open source, after already providing it for free. This enables the community to port RefactorIt to NetBeans 6 (this was not available up to now). Additionally all the nice metric and audit algorithm and functions can now be integrated in your favourite IDE. So any volunteers out there?

For a start head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/refactorit/ and get the source! It seems this is not a very NetBeans friendly source layout - but this should prove no difficulty for real NetBeans developers. So, whish you happy hacking and expect new features based on the RefactorIt code to be integrated in SQE.

German NetBeans RCP Book

Some weeks ago I received my copy of NetBeans Platform 6. Finally I got around to let you know that it may actually be the best book out there regarding RCP development for NetBeans. It covers a lot API's, gives code code examples and offers complex solutions based on the NetBeans RCP Platform, e.g. using JPA.



So what is stopping you? Get your copy and learn German!

JavaPolis - Conclusion

So what shall I say - it was an amazing experience being here in Antwerp @ the JavaPolis 2007. There were tons of interesting new technologies to discover and best of all meet other Java enthusiasts. I especially appreciated the open and friendly and personal discussions with (no special order) Neal Gafter, Joshua Bloch, Mark Reinhold, Chet Haase, Koshuke Kawaguchi, Brian Leonard, Stephen Coleburn, Guy Nirpaz and a lot more nice guys.

Special thanks go to Stephan Janssen - marvellous awesome work - hope to come back next year!

JavaPolis 2007 - Day 5

Already a bit worn out the last day @ JavaPolis 2007 began. Since the exhibition area was already closed down yesterday evening the crowd got together in even less space for breakfast, but that was ok.

First talk today was given by David Anderson about a kanban approach to software development. It is indeed a quite interesting approach but does not seem to work for all projects. Nevertheless you should check out his website and look for more informations about this.

Following this was a presentation about Java2D and 3D in high performance systems. Frank Suyken gave showed a couple of very amazing demonstrations based on JOGL and Java2D and gave away a couple of tricks how to make your own applications faster, ranging from GC to OpenGL.

After lunch there was a talk called "OSGi - The future of Java" given by Peter Kriens. He made some interesting points about actual problems concerning classloader and hiding implementations inside Java. On the other hand he seemed to insist that OSGi is the only true solution to this problem (ok he may be a bit biased). Nevertheless it was really interesting and will be stuff for a lot of discussions.

The last final presentation I attended was about "Unitils" from Flip Neven. Some quite innovative ideas how to make testing with databases more lightweight, but I will have to find out if this approach scales for large projects as well. But a few of the ideas are definitely worth considering.

It is a bit sad that JavaPolis 2007 is already over - would be nice if there could have been some gathering this late afternoon before anyone went of to catch their flights, trains or whatever.