Java software testing in practice

• OCAJP Java 7 Exam Expected in March 2012? OCPJP to Follow? 10 Jan 2012

  News - Highly anticipated, the new Oracle certification for Java, OCAJP, went out of beta on December 17th, 2011. So when will the new exam be released? And when will the OCPJP exam be released?

• OCPJP & OCAJP: Java 7 training requirement for the Oracle Certified Professional Programmer dropped 21 Dec 2011

  News - In order to obtain the certified architect position from Oracle, attending and passing a training course is now required. But what about the Java Professional and Java Associate designations, OCPJP and OCAJP for Java 7?

• OCAJP and OCPJP Changes for Java 7: New Objectives, a Format Change and a Price Hike 16 Dec 2011

  News - The OCP (Oracle Certified Professional) Java 7 certification (OCAJP and OCPJP), which replaced the SCJP certification, will now require you to pass two exams, each of which will cost $300 to take, pushing the cost of the designation to $600.

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• How BI + ALM = ALI and real-time application traceability 12 Oct 2011

  Video - Pairing business intelligence with application lifecycle management (ALM) promises to deliver real-time application requirements traceability and simplify change management, said Kelly Emo, HP director of applications product marketing, in a JavaOne 2011...

• Ashesh Badani on cloud computing pain points 23 Sep 2010

  Video - Cloud computing's pain points for developers include challenges in capacity planning, "policying" and increasing needs for flexibility in programming,according to Ashesh Badani, senior director of JBOSS Enterprise Middleware for Red Hat. In this video,...

• Eric Dalci and Ray Lai on SaaS security 23 Sep 2010

  Video - Eric Dalci and Ray Lai explain the audience's reactions and why password security still causes major hassles in SaaS.

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• New Java 7 Features: How to Use a More Precise Rethrow in Exceptions from Project Coin 12 Jan 2012

  Tutorial - Afficionados of other languages such as Scala or Clojure are always slagging the fact that Java is too verbose and cumbersome. So, it's not too surprising to find out that Java 7 introduced a number of new facilities that can help to trim down the code...

• New Java 7 Features: Suppressed Exceptions and Try With Resources from Project Coin 12 Jan 2012

  Tutorial - One of the great things about the new try-with-resources construct is the fact that any AutoCloseable object that is initialized in the resource declaration block will be automatically closed when the code block executes, regardless of whether an...

• New Java 7 Features: Automatic Resource Management (ARM) and the AutoCloseable Interface Tutorial 12 Jan 2012

  Tutorial - The whole idea of the try-with-resources syntax is to improve the track record of Java professionals with regards to properly cleaning up application resources when they are no longer required by the code.

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• Java 7 and the intricacies of safe and unsafe casting 26 Jan 2012

  Tip - One of the problems with casting is that it does have the potential to cause a loss of precision, especially if the number that gets cast does indeed fall outside of the range of the target type. Here we will explain why this happens.

• OCPJP Java 7 Mock Certification Exam: A Tricky Question about ARM and Try-with-Resources 30 Dec 2011

  Tip - The Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer (OCPJP) exam requires you to know the ins and outs of the new language features introduced in Java 7. This tricky question tests you on your knowledge of try-with-resources and AutoCloseable objects.

• Five tips for developing reliable embedded devices 20 Sep 2011

  Tip - The whole point of embedded tech is reliability. If you don’t feel confident that your embedded device will perform, it’s not ready for deployment.

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