http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog The team blog of The Server Labs Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:32:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow! What an intense 3 days Devoxx is. Between the conference and the traveling and (of course!) those famous Belgian beers, it was an action-packed trip. We enjoyed the conference a lot. It was professionally organised, had good speakers and had great food too. They even managed to keep the ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/12/15/thoughts-on-devoxx/ This week, some The Server Labs employees are at the Java Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium. We've just had a human beat box guy warming the crowd up and he was great - some of the speakers are gonna have a problem to follow him! We've taken a look at the schedule ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/12/10/hello-from-devoxx/ 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 ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/11/24/distributed-junit-testing-with-gridgain/ Earlier this year TIBCO released a new version of their particular implementation of the JMS standard. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 5.0 which, among others, includes some features which I personally consider very interesting. One of them is the possibility to store persistent messages in a database. In previous versions, the only ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/10/10/database-storage-in-tibco-ems-50/ Yesterday I went to the Google Developer Day in Madrid. I was lucky because some colleagues filled the request form but they were not accepted by Google. A pity because the event was very interesting.  The event took place in the Parque de Atracciones de Madrid, which is a popular amusement park. ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/09/26/google-developer-day-madrid-2008/ 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, ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/09/24/developing-custom-hudson-plugins-integrate-with-your-own-applications/ Here at The Server Labs we place a high value on automated unit and integration tests and believe that they are fundamental whether you are using an agile methodology or not. We use Maven on the vast majority of our projects and we often use Jetty as a web container ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/09/17/automated-integration-testing-with-selenium-maven-and-jetty/ It has been a while since we first heard about compile-time checks with AspectJ at the Java Server Symposium in 2007. Since then we have been using and experimenting with this feature of AOP and AspectJ, and more recently we have used this technology to implement architecture enforcment rules for ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/09/10/compile-time-architecture-enforcement-revisited-aspectj-maven-and-eclipse/ On August 22 Sonatype, the guys responsible of M2Eclipse, released the version 1.0.0 of their Maven repository Manager, Nexus. If you are using maven as intensively as we do, you know how important is to have a local maven repository manager. It works as a local proxy to all the external ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/09/04/nexus-10-maven-repository-manager-released/ Last week Amazon announced the release of Elastic Block Store (EBS), a block based persistent storage mechanism for EC2. This is very exciting news that will make a huge impact on the adoption of cloud computing and virtualisation in general. I’m not going to go into a huge amount of detail ... http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2008/08/25/amazon-releases-ebs-persistent-storage-for-ec2/