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IntelliJ IDEA

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:46:50 GMT

Java IDE focused on developer productivity.

Features include:
- Multiple projects support
- Refactoring
- Java EE (J2EE), Java SE (J2SE), Java ME (J2ME) support
- Supported languages: Java, JavaScript/ Flex, HTML/XHTML/CSS, XML/XSL, Ruby/JRuby, Groovy
- Technologies and frameworks supported: JSP, JSF, EJB, AJAX, GWT, Struts, Spring, Seam, Hibernate/ JPA, Web Services, Rails, Grails, Java ME MIDP/CLDC, OSGi, Google App Engine, Tapestry, Android
- Support for SQL-92 and MySQL
- Support for FreeMarker and Velocity
- Integration with Ant, JUnit, TestNG and Maven
- Integration with CVS, Subversion, StarTeam, Perforce, ClearCase UCM and Visual SourceSafe version control systems
- Supports ER diagrams with EJB3
- Swing GUI designer
- IDE customization
- Code generation
- Code analysis
- PHP support

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TeamCity

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:44:48 GMT

IDE-independent integrated team environment.
TeamCity automates and coordinates key collaborative processes to eliminate manual systems and delays, providing integration with multiple build and test tools, real-time unit test frequency, server-side inspections and code coverage analysis.

Features include:
- continuous integration and testing
- server-side code analysis
- build management
- automated team communication
- code coverage analysis and reporting
- web-based interface and project dashboard
- extensibility
- IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and Visual Studio integration
- pre-tested (delayed) commit
- remote run for personal builds

Supported environments:
- Ant, Maven, NAnt, MSBuild
- Having an IntelliJ IDEA project or a Visual Studio solution, you can build your application with TeamCity, even without providing a build script
- Supports JUnit and NUnit
- Integrates with Perforce, CVS, Subversion, Visual SourceSafe, StarTeam

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Google Web Toolkit

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:57:05 GMT

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

With GWT, you write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Features include:
- Dynamic, reusable UI components.
- Simple RPC: To communicate from your web application to your web server, you just need to define serializable Java classes for your request and response.
- Browser history management: Handles the browser's back button history.
- Real debugging: In production, your code is compiled to JavaScript, but at development time it runs in the Java virtual machine. That means when your code performs an action like handling a mouse event, you get full-featured Java debugging, with exceptions and the advanced debugging features of IDEs like Eclipse.
- Browser compatible: Supports IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera with no browser detection or special-casing within your code in most cases.
- Interoperability and fine-grained control: If GWT's class library doesn't meet your needs, you can mix handwritten JavaScript in your Java source code using our JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI).
- In-browser development mode
- Declarative user interface: using an XML format, the UiBinder feature allows the creation of user interfaces through declaration rather than code
- Resource bundling
- Code splitting
- DOM API

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Oracle JDeveloper

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:24:58 GMT

Integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications and Web services using the latest industry standards for Java, XML, and SQL.
Oracle JDeveloper supports the complete development life cycle with integrated features for modeling, coding, debugging, testing, profiling, tuning, and deploying
applications.
A visual and declarative development approach and the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) work together to simplify application development and reduce mundane coding tasks.
Oracle JDeveloper focuses on Java application development using J2EE, J2SE, or J2ME. In addition, JDeveloper enables XML-based application development with features such as the XML Schema Modeler, XML code insight, and the XML tag property inspector. To complete the developer’s toolbox, Oracle JDeveloper also
provides a full development and modeling environment for building database objects and stored procedures.

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JProfiler

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:08:37 GMT

Profiler that helps you find performance bottlenecks, pin down memory leaks and resolve threading issues.

Features include:
- Memory profiling: dynamically updated views on memory usage and allocations.
- Heap walker: can take a snapshot of the heap and drill down to objects of interest by performing selection steps.
- CPU profiling: various ways to record the call tree to optimize for performance or detail.
- Thread profiling: views include Thread history, Thread monitor, Deadlock detection graph, Current monitor usage, Monitor usage history, Monitor usage statistics.
- VM telemetry: to observe the internal state of your JVM (heap, objects, garbage collector, classes, threads)
- Snapshot comparison facility
- JProfiler can be integrated into the following IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, IBM WSAD, IBM RAD/RSA, IntelliJ IDEA, Borland JBuilder, Oracle JDeveloper.

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Profiling - Debugging

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Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:07:06 GMT

The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) is an open development platform supplying frameworks and services for test and performance tools.

TPTP is divided into four projects:
- The TPTP Platform Project is the core project and basis for other projects. It provides common user interface, standard data models, data collection and communications control, as well as remote execution environments.
- The Monitoring Tools Project addresses the monitoring and logging phases of the application lifecycle. The framework has the capability of collecting and analyzing system and application resources. The log analysis tools can correlate disparate logs from multiple points across an environment. The project also includes examplary tools for monitoring application servers and system performance, such as CPU and memory utilization.
- The Testing Tools Project addresses the testing phase of the application lifecycle. The framework contains testing editors, deployment and execution of tests, execution environments and associated execution history analysis and reporting. The project also includes exemplary tools for JUnit based component testing tool, Web application performance testing tool, and a manual testing tool. The project supports the OMG UML2 Test Profile and have implemented an early draft of the model.
- The Tracing and Profiling Tools Project addresses the tracing and profiling phases of the application lifecycle. The framework has the capability of collecting and analyzing application performance information The project includes exemplary profiling tools for both single-system and distributed Java applications through a JVMPI monitoring agent that collects trace and profile data. A generic tool kit for probe insertion is also available.

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Tracing - Logging - Monitoring

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JProbe Suite

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:05:46 GMT

Java profiler providing diagnostics on memory usage, performance and test coverage.

JProbe Suite includes:
- JProbe Memory: for proactively discovering, diagnosing and resolving memory allocation issues such as memory leaks (loitering objects) and excessive garbage collection activity (object cycling) that can lead to out-of-memory system crashes and slower overall system performance.
- JProbe Performance: for proactively discovering, diagnosing and resolving code bottlenecks such as expensive methods, deadlocks and stalled threads that can lead to slow application performance and limit scalability.
- JProbe Coverage: for proactively assessing the completeness and accuracy of test runs in development and QA – enhances development and QA collaboration in creating more complete test suites.

JProbe also offers an Eclipse plug-in that provides code performance analysis and problem resolution directly within the Eclipse Java IDE.

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Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:19:58 GMT

The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) is intended to serve as a facade for various logging APIs allowing to the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time.

Logging API implementations can either choose to implement the the SLF4J interfaces directly, e.g. NLOG4J or SimpleLogger. Alternatively, it is possible (and rather easy) to write SLF4J adapters for the given API implementation, a la JDK14LoggerFA.

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Tracing - Logging - Monitoring

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YourKit Java Profiler

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:39:30 GMT

CPU and memory profiler.

Features include:
- Analysis capabilities: CPU and memory hot spots with devoted views; snapshot comparison; memory leak detection; memory distribution reports; measuring of shallow and retained sizes of objects; reporting utility.
- On-demand profiling: enable the profiling only when you need it to avoid overhead.
- Free embedding into production: you are eligible to distribute profiling DLLs with your real-world commercial applications, free of charge.
- J2EE support: non-intrusive profiling; integration with application servers; automatic deobfuscator.
- Java 5 support: utilizes Java 5.0 features, including support for JVMTI.
- J2ME support.
- Multi-platform and multi-processor licensing: commercial, floating, educational, open source licenses available.
- IDE integration: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, JBuilder, JDeveloper

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Profiling - Debugging

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JMSL Numerical Library

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:52:33 GMT

Pure Java numerical library that operates in the Java J2SE and J2EE frameworks.
The JMSL Library provides software developers with a broad collection of mathematical, statistical, financial, data mining and charting classes. Functions range from basic algorithms such as linear algebra and regression to advanced neural network forecasting and other data mining, modeling and prediction technologies.

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JUDE

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:07:37 GMT

JUDE/Professional is a System Design Tool that lets you draw CRUD, UML, ER, Flowchart and Mind Map. It has features such as input-output and diagram creation guidance. It is suitable for business use, large-sized models, and document creation.

Features include:
- UML 2.0 (partly) and UML 1.4 (fully)
- Mind maps; Convert mind maps to UML models and vice-versa
- API: develop applications using JUDE's model data (class diagrams, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and mindmap)
- Export RTF, HTML documents also images
- UseCase Descriptions
- XMI input/output
- Merge JUDE projects
- Multilingual display (through aliases)
- Suppor for Entity-Relationship diagrams: Generation of SQL scripts; Switchable notations (IDEF1X and IE); Entity categories; Hierarchical domains; Convert between logical name and physical name
- Export Entity Definition Report
- Flowchart; Convert Flowchart models to UML models and vice-versa
- CRUD (Create, Edit and Export)

JUDE/Community is also available as a free UML modeling tool.

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Modeling - Architecture - MDA - UML

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AccuRev

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:40:51 GMT

Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool.

AccuRev's stream-based architecture is built specifically for complex, parallel, and distributed software development environments.

Features include:
- StreamBrowser visual representation and process control
- Built-in support for large parallel development projects
- TimeSafe architecture assures atomic transactions, avoiding broken builds
- Instant, authentic, single-step renaming of any object
- Out-of-the-box developer "sandboxes" for private versioning
- Change packages with verification
- Integrated issue tracking
- Integrated three-way visual merge tool and difference tool
- Client/server architecture for remote development
- Instant visual snapshots and baseline creation
- Online, hot backup of database
- Supports Visual Studio .NET through SCC
- Support for Eclipse and JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
- Open API and AccuBridge SDK supports (JIRA, Serena TeamTrack, MKS Integrity, IBM Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla and more)
- The AccuRev server can be selectively replicated at remote sites
- Stream-zooming: users may zoom in on those projects assigned to them for a cleaner view of the development process

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Code versioning - Source control

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GigaSpaces XAP

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:21:14 GMT

Grid-based application platform.
GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) is a "Space-Based Architecture" (SBA) product, which basically places services in a grid, providing dynamic scalability. SBA is geared for the distribution of stateful service-oriented transactions.

XAP is available in three editions:
- the Caching Edition provides clustering capabilities to JDBC, JavaSpaces, and JCache, as well as a management console for the clustering configuration.
- the Enterprise Edition adds JMS clustering to the Caching Edition, as well as clustering for J2EE, C++, and .NET applications, as well as dynamic deployment, configuration management, and other features.
- the Community Edition has unlimited licenses and doesn't expire, but offers limited functionality.

Features include: Clustering; J2EE, C++, .NET APIs; JavaSpaces, JMS, JDBC, MAP/JCache APIs; Service Grid management console; Dynamic service deployment; Proactive cache; Distributed service container; Automatic provisioning; Deployment; Unemployment; Failure detection and handling; Dynamic scalability.

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Caching

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JRuby

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:21:05 GMT

100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.

Features include:
- A 1.8.7 compatible Ruby interpreter written in 100% pure Java
- Most built-in Ruby classes provided
- Support for interacting with and defining Java classes from within Ruby
- Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) support
- Distributed under a tri-license (CPL/GPL/LGPL)

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Languages

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Crystal Reports for Eclipse

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:57:39 GMT

Report designer built on the Eclipse framework.

Features include:
- Support for Crystal Reports 2008 features such as embedded Flash, parameter panel, and sort controls
- Flash-based prompting user interface that supports dynamic, cascading prompts at runtime for Web apps
- SDK that enables complete report creation and modification with Java code
- Ability to embed the Java runtime engine into thick and thin client applications
- Access Java classes (POJOs) as a data source for tight integration to your applications
- Editable preview in the Eclipse report design tool
- Support for all major browsers and operating systems

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Reporting

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