Posts under ‘Tools’

Developing applications with SCA and a JBI-Based supporting infrastructure

We have been working with SOA technologies and solutions in the commercial and open-source arena for some years now and I would like to start a new series with this post covering the developments of two mayor standardisation efforts in this area, SCA (Service Component Architecture) and JBI (Java Business Integration).
While for some time [...]

Performance Tests with Jmeter, Maven and Hudson

Continuing with the series of blog posts regarding testing, automation and continuous integration, this time I will talk about how to integrate performance tests, in this case using Jmeter, with Maven and the Hudson continuous integration system. Jmeter is one of the main tools we use in our projects to create relevant performance tests, and [...]

TIBCO Designer Add-in for TIBCO Business Studio

Last week I finally had the opportunity to try a new product from TIBCO that I believe that, like me, many developers were asking for. I’m talking about TIBCO Designer Add-in for TIBCO Business Studio 1.0.0.
Back in the old days of Integration Manager, we needed two development tools, IM in one [...]

Distributed JUnit testing with GridGain

Recently we have been running some problems while testing distributed applications with JUnit. The main problem was that we were running the client and the server within the same host. Although the test passed because the application logic was correct. Running the application distributed failed due to some errors related with the naming of the [...]

Developing Custom Hudson Plugins: integrate with your own applications

Hudson is a very good Continuous Integration (CI) tool. Though such tools are not new, it clearly sets a higher standard in terms of quality and extensibility compared to first generation CI tools like Cruise-Control. And it’s open-source. (If you are reading this and you don’t know what Continuous Integration is, read this paper written by Martin Fowler [...]