IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 released

October 16th, 2007 Radim Marek

As a die hard fan of IntelliJ IDEA , I’m happy to let you know that the guys from JetBrains released version 7.0 aka The Magnificent Seven.

For more information and list of changes, visit official blog.

Updated: as it isn’t mentioned in original announcement, I’m glad IDEA is finally using runtime of Java 6. After my initial surprise caused by anti-aliased fonts in menus and dialogs, the version information (Help/About) confirmed it.

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Advanced JMX (1) - Notifications

October 2nd, 2007 Radim Marek

Since the release as part of Java 5 (formerly called J2SDK 5.0) the Java Management Extensions proved to be effective tool for management of the application systems and intercommunication between the various software components. JBoss AS’ kernel itself relies on JMX as the integration bus into which various components plug.

Although there are many developers successfully using JMX, general knowledge often doesn’t cover more advanced aspects of this technology. This is a first part of my series to shed light on not so common parts of the specification and hopefully help you to take advantage of it and understand some aspects of systems build on top of JMX. First part of this series is dedicated to ability of MBean to broadcast management events to its listeners, called notifications.

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