Latest News from Bill Dudney

Java on Leopard - Enough Complaining

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:30:00 EDT

So while reviewing the release notes for Java on Leopard I noticed a couple of interesting bits. First they included junit 4.1 and maven 2.0.6 in the mix, which is great (except that maven 2.06 had some serious bugs with transitive dependencies). mvn is now on your path so you don't have to download to get maven on your leopard box. Second they really cleaned up the awt/swt issues in this release so we can use stuff like Batik in Eclipse now. They also made the default rendering pipeline the Sun pipeline. Over all a ton of good work. JDK 6 and hopefully the full open source stack of 7 will be happening soon enough.

Bill Dudney's Blog: Beware, The Lawyers Are Coming

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:00:00 EDT

In my role @ sys-con.com I got to do some very cool stuff. At JavaOne i many times was able to interview smart folks etc. Anyway one of the folks I talked with was Nigel Cheshire of Enerjy. They make cool tools to help you and your team build higher quality software (its very cool check it out). Nigel has a blog over at enerjy.com. I was digging around for some info I'm researching on the GDB chapter I'm writing now.

Open Source Shark Jumping?

Tue, 01 May 2007 03:30:00 EDT

I read a pointer to this on /. the other day and mentally filed it to go back and see what the fuss was all about. I finally had time tonight. Bottom line, Mr. Gould does not get it. Clearly the IBM press release is about making it so Lotus Notes folks are not stuck with Windows. Their client works in a more open environment. It's all about getting rid of Windows for IBM.

Open Source Rocks!

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:30:00 EDT

While there I had the great pleasure of spending some time with Mike Milinkovich of Eclipse and Mike Taylor from Instations doing a webcast. They just released a new product RCP Developer and we spent some time talking about that and the advantages of the RCP.

JavaOne 2006: On the Ground

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:00:00 EDT

I'm in SF on the ground heading out to NetBeans day. I'll post my general impressions once there. I also have some stuff to do with the JCP. Should be interesting. I was just reviewing the session and there is as usual way too much to see but I'm going to get a change to hang out with old friends (Chris and Kevin and a couple of others) which is half the reason to come here anyway...

JavaOne 2006: NetBeans Day Wrap-Up

Tue, 16 May 2006 10:45:00 EDT

Tons of interesting stuff came from today's NetBeans shindig. I am impressed with the progress they have made in just a year. The tool set is a lot better and seems to be making significant progress on the way to being a first class player. Yet another reason to be glad for Eclipse. The Eclipse team has really forced the issue to make NetBeans better. One of my favorite quotes last year from a NetBeans/Swing guy was that they didn't realize how important native look and feel was to developers (and ultimately users). They have a much better story for that now, particularly on the performance side of things. It runs fast (especially on my shiny new 17' MacBook Pro:).

Bill Dudney's Weblog: Oracle Buying JBoss? Who Cares?

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:45:00 EST

Ok, I've been following the hype and speculation about Oracle buying JBoss but the latest bit that I read on Business Week really got my dander up. It's not the article from BW that was irritating at all it was the comment by some one claiming to be 'Siddharth Gulhati'. I don't know Sid but his comment is over the top for me.

Bill Dudney's Blog: Open Source Compliance Insurance - More Evidence of Maturing Market

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:45:00 EST

I'm not sure how I feel about insurance though. With insurance comes lawyers and with lawyers comes complexity. It will be interesting to see how many takers this type of insurance has.

i-Technology Viewpoint: Is Model Driven Architecture Coming Into Its Own?

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:15:00 EDT

With the popularity of Object Relational Mapping tools like Hibernate and Cayenne, developers are more often than other giving control of some of their code to models. Will this help raise MDA into the mainstream?

Enerjy Software Discusses Enerjy CQ2

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:00:00 EDT

Bill Dudney recently had the chance to sit down with the Enerjy team to discuss the new Enerjy CQ2 quality assurance product for Java Development Managers.

MyEclipse 4.0 Up On Deck: Exclusive Interview With Maher Masri, President, Genuitec

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:30:00 EDT

The MyEclipse team has been hard a work on getting the next major upgrade to their flagship out into our hands. We recently had a chance to catch up with Maher Marsi the president of Genuitec to find our more about this latest release.

Why "Eclipse Developer's Journal" and Why Now?

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:00:00 EDT

'The Eclipse ecosystem is huge and growing,' writes Eclipse Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Bill Dudney. 'The ecosystem will benefit from having an independent magazine devoted to the various aspects of Eclipse and I'm looking forward to Eclipse Developer's Journal becoming that source.'

Day One Keynote: Bill Dudney Sketches the Opening Keynote of JavaOne 2005

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:00:00 EDT

The power of Java was center stage at JavaOne yesterday as Sun executive luminaries like John Gage and Jonathan Scwartz introduced the 10th year of Java to the assembled masses...

Eclipse 3.1 M4 - "Cool New Stuff," Says JDJ's Eclipse Editor Bill Dudney

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

The Eclipse team is well on the way to the 3.1 release. The current release is M4 with M5 to follow in less than two weeks (M5 is due Feb 18th). 'I made the plunge to 3.1M4,' reports JDJ's Eclipse editor, Bill Dudney. 'I've been using it for about 4 weeks now and here are my notes on the 'new and noteworthy' stuff in the M4 release.'

Developer Testing Is 'In'

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

A few weeks ago Agitar Software announced that Kent Beck had joined their team. I sat down and talked with Alberto Savoia, CTO, and Kent Beck, Agitar Fellow, to find out what prompted the move and what Agitar is up to that is so exciting.

Integrating with Eclipse: Exclusive interview with Lee Nackman VP, Desktop Development Tools & CTO, Rational Software

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

In July IBM announced that the Rational tool set would be fully integrated within the Eclipse tool set and would provide an integrated set of tools to support the full life cycle of software development. Recently I was able to interview Lee Nackman, the CTO of the Rational division of IBM.

JUnit, Assertions, and Management

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

When it comes to code, Bill Dudney wonders, how do we measure what 'good' is? 'As a developer I find code coverage results to be a fantastic tool to determine if my developer tests are covering all the code under test that they should,' he writes. 'All too often though I see tests that have 100 lines of code and a single println at the end, not a single assert. Tests like this will generate a lot of coverage but don't really tell you anything about the quality of your code.'

Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney on the Web Tools Project

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The Web Tools Project (WTP) consists of two major contributions, one from IBM and the other from ObjectWeb. The IBM contribution consists of pieces of their development tools for WebSphere while the ObjectWeb contribution is what was known as Lomboz. In this initial article, since Lomboz has great online documentation, Bill Dudney focuses on the IBM contribution.

Exclusive Q & A with Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

On June 1, 2004, the Eclipse Board of Directors named Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. The hunt had been on since Eclipse became an independent entity earlier this year. Here JDJ's Eclipse editor, Bill Dudney, talks exclusively with Milinkovich about the direction he wants to take Eclipse and what his vision is for the community.

SYS-CON Radio interviews the Eclipse Foundation

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation

SYS-CON Radio interviews Sun Microsystems

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews John Crupi, Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems.

SYS-CON Radio interviews eBay

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Jeff McMannis, Senior Manager of Platform Evangelism for eBay.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Exadel

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Denis Ulyanov, Chief Software Architect of Exadel

SYS-CON Radio interviews Versant

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Manish Chandra, Vice President Worldwide Marketing for Versant.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Fiorano

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Sriram Chakravarthy, Director of Product Management for Fiorano

SYS-CON Radio interviews VERITAS Software

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Radio interviews Tom Mulvehill, Product Line Manager for VERITAS Software

Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney Looks at New Stuff in M9

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

M9 has been out now for a couple of weeks, and wow, has the Eclipse team made some major progress! The tool has lots of new features (which we will look at shortly) but also has some great performance fixes and fleshing out of existing features. In particular the Ant editor works like a champ now and I've not had the frustrating lags in property name completion that were so prevalent in M8.

Eclipse Special: Remote Debugging Tomcat & JBoss Apps with Eclipse

Thu, 20 May 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Over the last several weeks I've received a few questions about remote debugging with Eclipse. I posted about this on my other article back in February but with not enough info for others to follow.

Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney Looks at the Change Method Signature Refactoring

Fri, 07 May 2004 00:00:00 EDT

This column contains an excerpt from one of the refactoring chapters in my book Eclipse 3 Live. The book will eventually contain similar sections for all the refactorings available in Eclipse.

Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney Looks at Eclipse M8 Close-Up

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

JDJ's new online Eclipse columnist, Bill Dudney, has been using M8 for two weeks now and has accumulated a lot of notes of what he likes and doesn't like in this latest of the drops - the new Eclipse M8 drop - before we finally get to the feature-complete Eclipse 3.0.