Topic: Java IDE Tools

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Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE (ONJava.com)
Test-driven development principles call for writing the tests before writing any code. Alexander and Olexiy Prohorenko demonstrate how this approach can be used with the JUnit testing tool and the Eclipse IDE.

Custom PMD Rules (ONJava.com)
The real fun of automated code analysis is writing your own rules. In his third article on the PMD project, Tom Copeland shows two approaches to detecting error patterns: writing custom Java code and simple XPath expressions.

Design Markers (ONJava.com)
Source code is the canonical representation of a software project, but today's popular languages cannot express all of the design decisions behind a project. Explicit Programming seeks to make that easier, at least in the Java world. Bruce Wallace explains Design Markers, a similar concept that requires no special tools and offers compelling benefits.

Detecting Duplicate Code with PMD's CPD (ONJava.com)
Code reuse has been a grail for years. Why, then, is there still so much copying and pasting going on? Tom Copeland introduces CPD, the Copy/Paste Detector, which can identify large swaths of duplicate Java code. Now go refactor!

An Introduction to the Eclipse IDE (ONJava.com)
Eclipse, an open source Java-based IDE, brings together all of the tools a developer needs to be successful at Web application development: an extensible IDE, a standards-based compiler, remote debugging, Ant-based builds, JUnit-based testing, and plug-ins for communicating with most application servers and EJB containers.

NetBeans: Working with XML, Part 3 (ONJava.com)
In this final installment on working with XML, excerpted from NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, learn how to generate Java classes.

NetBeans: Working with XML, Part 2 (ONJava.com)
In part two of this three-part series excerpted from NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, go beyond editing XML in your editors, within the open source NetBeans framework.

NetBeans: Working with XML, Part 1 (ONJava.com)
In part one in this series of book excerpts from NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, learn how to work with XML within the NetBeans framework by installing XML support and working with XML editors.

NetBeans: Open IDE, Open Platform, Open Source (ONJava.com)
Because of its modular architecture, the NetBeans IDE is sometimes described as a "disintegrated" development environment -- it's a runtime in which arbitrary modules execute. The runtime handles much of the grunt work, and developers can concentrate on implementing their logic.

BEA Implements New Web Services Standard (ONJava.com)
BEA's Weblogic Workshop is the first implementation of Java Web Services tags -- a new file format standard aimed at making development of Web services much easier.

UML Modeling for Java with Rhapsody (ONJava.com)
Rhapsody in J generates Java code from UML diagrams, allowing programmers to focus on Java design rather than writing code in Java.

Borland JBuilder 4 Handheld Express (ONJava.com)
JavaPro columnist, Peter Varhol, reviews Borland's JBuilder 4 Handheld Express, one of the first IDE for building wireless Java applications for PDAs (i.e., Palm), cell phones and more.

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