Archive for the 'User experience' Category
Call for screenshots
I have mentioned earlier that the Eclipse WTP project is taking steps on improving the default layout of the Java EE perspective. We made an UI walkthrough in the Eclipse UI Best Practices group and reached consensus for some small, but valuable, things to improve. We have scheduled this small step for Galileo M3.
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Plans for changes in the Java EE perspective
The Java EE perspective hasn’t changed much in the last years. There were only minor tweaks that surely make the things better, but nothing special yet.
Recently a discussion started on how to update the default layout in the Java EE perspective. The first suggestions came from Mik Kersten. They are related about better integration with [...]
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An easy way to unit test your EJBs
Unit testing is essential part of software development. Testing POJOs with JUnit is de facto standard. But when it comes to execute unit tests on Java EE artifacts like servlets and EJB beans, a problem arises. Java EE artifacts live in a Java EE container rather than in a pure Java Virtual Machine. How do [...]
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Lightweight EJB container in Eclipse
Looking for an easy and lightweight environment for developing Enterprise JavaBeans? The Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers gives you a great tooling to develop your EJBs, while Apache OpenEJB project provides an embeddable and lightweight EJB 3.0 runtime to execute them. The glue that sticks the Eclipse’s and Apache’s perls together is the OpenEJB [...]
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