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VMWare to acquire SpringSource

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On August 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Monday the 10th of August VMWare announced the acquisition of SpringSource, transaction which will be closed in the 3rd quarter.

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The Flex compiler doesn’t like the Unicode filetype for assets under Perforce

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On August 13, 2009 · 3 Comments

In one of our Flex – Java projects, our team recently encountered an unexpected issue with a couple of assets when compiling the Flex application on Windows machines.

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Migrating to Eclipse Galileo and the Flash Builder 4 plug-in

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On June 30, 2009 · 8 Comments

For some time now, I’ve been using Eclipse with the Flex Builder plug-in to code my Java/Flex projects. Recently I’ve decided to switch from Flex Builder 3 to Flash Builder 4. And since Eclipse Galileo had just been released, I just had to add it to the migration stack and let go of good ol’ [...]

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Let’s get Tanki

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On June 29, 2009 · 1 Comment

While checking up what’s new on Cornel’s blog, I read his recent post on this new massively multiplayer online game called Tanki Online. It’s a game with, well d’oh, tanks. I gave it a go and I really really enjoyed it. What’s not to enjoy in creating chaos and mayhem with your camouflage-painted tank ? [...]

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Java code coverage reports in Eclipse

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On June 25, 2009 · 14 Comments

A part of our team’s “definition of done” is having unit-tests in place and, unofficially, a minimum of 80% code coverage. Our Maven-based build process runs the tests and then creates code coverage reports in HTML format, that we can then consult in the documentation that Maven generates. Along with other reports, this helps us [...]

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Meaningful exceptions in LCDS/BlazeDS applications using Spring BlazeDS Integration

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On June 15, 2009 · 15 Comments

In a project I’m currently working on we’re using LiveCycle Data Services to expose Java back-end services to a Flex client application. The back-end is structured in several layers using some flavors of Spring “glue”. You can see below the basic building blocks of the back-end : As you can see, the architecture is quite [...]

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Categorizing tests in Java

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On March 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

When you write developer tests, you start with just a few and as your code base gets larger and larger, so does the number of tests. The build starts to take more and more time and soon you avoid running the build as often as possible. If you get to this, then you need to [...]

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A Flex formatter

By Ionut-Maxim Margelatu On February 4, 2009 · 5 Comments

I use the Flex Builder plug-in on top of Eclipse for Flex development . When it comes to coding in Flex, I often find myself missing all of those subtle but priceless options that Eclipse’s Java editor has, like the code formatting, code templates, commenting style or the all-mighty “Save Actions” option which automatically performs [...]

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