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Java at Large
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The JBoss
Integration Plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA, Part 1
By Douglas Lyon, Martin Fuhrer, Thomas
Rowland
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| The IntelliJ IDEA is an Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) used for Java development. It is known for its strong
refactoring capabilities. It is a closed-source, proprietary product,
which is used in both educational and industrial settings. IntelliJ functionality
is extended by a set of open APIs that third-party developers can use
to integrate their solutions by the development of plug-ins. |
Strategic Software Engineering
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Customer Interface
Management
By John D. McGregor
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| One of the interfaces between the producing company and the consuming company is the formal review. Requirements reviews, design reviews, test reviews, and schedule reviews are all points at which the customer and producer come together. These need to be managed as explicit project activities. There are several different types of producer/consumer relationships and each has its own characteristics and its own interface at review time.
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Cyber Databases
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A Framework for the Integration of Multimedia
Data
By Won Kim, Seung Soo Park, Hyon Hee Kim
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| In January 2005, George Mason University
found that hackers had gained access to a database containing information
on 32,000 people including their social security numbers. In February
2005, ChoicePoint, a data collection service, announced that a security
breach threatened the personal information of over 145,000 people. And
the list could go on. We want the software that manages our personal
and professional data to be secure. |
Classification Theory
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The Theory of Classification Part 19:
The Proliferation of Parameters
By Anthony J H Simons
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| We consider in more detail the kinds of manipulations
performed upon polymorphic class-types. These are expressed using function-bounded
type parameters of the form: ? <: F[?], where F is a type function,
describing the shape of the interface that the type ? is expected to
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Guest Column
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Aligning IT with the Changes using the Goal-Driven
Development for UML and MDA
By Birol Berkem
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| In order to assist organizations for aligning
IT with their changing business environment, aGoal-Driven Development
Process should be considered to accompany the OMG’s MDA (2).Using
such a methodology, MDA users could enable their organisations in propagating
changes they capture through their business processes till their IT applications,
thus synchronizing IT with their changing business rules, as a result
to better capitalize on their business knowledge, independently of technological
changes. |
Business Objects
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Whose SOA is the Best of them All?
By Mahesh Dodani
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Key to detailing the SOA reference architecture
is to define the architecture of composite services that align with
business processes. The relationship between services and components
is that enterprise-scale components (large-grained enterprise or business
line components) realize the services and are responsible for providing
their functionality and maintaining their quality of service.
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Patterns of Interface-Based Programming
By Friedrich Steimann and Philip Mayer
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Modern software architectures heavily promote
the use of interfaces. Originally conceived as a means to separate
specification from implementation, popular programming languages toady
accommodate interfaces as special kinds of types that can be used – in
place of classes – in variable declarations. While it is clear
that these interfaces offer polymorphism independent of the inheritance
hierarchy, little has been said about the systematic use of interfaces,
or how they are actually used in practice.
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A Taxonomy of OO Classes to Support
the Mapping of Testing Techniques to a Class
By Peter J. Clarke and Brian A. Malloy
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The trend in the development of large scale
object-oriented systems has shifted toward testable, robust models,
with a focus on the prevention of faults and system failure. One process
that supports the construction of robust software is testing. An advantage
of software testing is the relative ease with which some of the testing
activities can be performed, such as executing the program using a
given set of inputs, or test cases, and then comparing the generated
output to the expected output.
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A Study of Test Coverage Adequacy In the Presence
of Stubs
By Errol L. Lloyd and Brian A. Malloy |
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The purpose of implementation-based testing
is to gain a measure of confidence in the correctness of the software
by providing adequate coverage of the code. One unit of testing in
object-oriented software is a class. However, classes use other classes
and if class interactions form a cycle of dependencies then, to test
a client class that uses an untested supplier class, stubs must be
constructed to simulate the correct behavior of the untested supplier
class.
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An Implementation of the p-Calculus on the .NET
By liwu Li |
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An approach is presented to implement the
p-calculus. In the approach, we realize a p-calculus process expression
by decomposing the expression into a hierarchy, whose nodes manage,
coordinate, and perform the basic actions that are specified in the
process expression. When the process expression is executed, new nodes
are added to the hierarchy to account for lower-level process expressions.
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| PRODUCT
REVIEW |
JBuilder 2005 Enterprise and Together Developer 2005
Reviewd by Dave Neuendorf and Richard Wiener
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OUTLOOK |
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A brief outlook to the next issue
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