The Jolt Awards finalists have been announced and JavaRebel is shortlisted in the Utilities category. We’ll keep our fingers crossed to win and join such great products as VmWare Workstation that won the previous year award.
About the Jolt Awards: Software development has grown from an elite set of tools that everyone knew about and used, to today’s prolific industry awash with hundreds of products that morph and evolve with such swiftness and complexity that it is virtually impossible for developers to keep up with the changing market. Which products should they continue to use? Which upgrades and new versions are worthwhile? Which new tools’ performance and usability far outstrip their competitors? What is the new killer app? Enter the Jolt Product Excellence Awards: We recognize the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products. Jolt-award winners are the software products, books and technologies that developers should be using today.
And to celebrate the occasion we released a small update to the 2.0-M1 release with more than 10 issues fixed. Read the changes or download now.
Enjoy the holidays!
Devoxx is an annual European Java conference with a total of 3200 attendees from 35 countries and again has been completely sold out. This is also the last conference this year that ZeroTurnaround will be present at.
It has been a very busy year for us, visiting Jax.de, JavaONE, Great Indian Developer Summit, TSS Europe, Oracle World, JavaZone, JAOO, QCon SF and finally we are at the last event of 2008.
Our booth will be open in the exhibition area from December the 9th till December the 11th. If you want to see a demo of JavaRebel, sneak a peek at what is coming up next or just say hello be sure to drop by.
Jevgeni Kabanov, JavaRebel Lead, will present a talk Zero Turnaround in Java Development on 11th of December at 17:50-18:50 in room 7. This is a great opportunity to learn about different options for speeding up Java development.
See you at Devoxx.
Christmas sale for ZeroTurnaround products has started and will last till 4th of January 2009. Everything is 40% off. This means personal/commercial perpetual/yearly licenses and for both JavaRebel and JSP Weaver. See the exact prices from the buy page.
This is a great opportunity to equip your team with the latest in Java technology and start saving time and money today.
It is our great pleasure to present the first milestone of the 2.0 release. It includes numerous changes, both visible and under the hood, with yet more to come in the next milestones. Download it now or read the changes below.
The major themes of this release were:
- Startup time and performance overhead.
We have optimized or otherwise eliminated most of the bottlenecks that made the previous versions slow for some of our users. For this release we mainly focused on the runtime performance overhead, which has been decreased more than an order of magnitude and should be negligible in most cases. This should also directly affect the long startup time, as it was often caused by prolonged initialization routines in the previous versions.
- Compatibility.
Compatibility was a strong concern for this release. We have devoted a lot of time to tweak reflection and annotations support as well as integration with specific frameworks. We also compiled an extensive test suite that should make JavaRebel work out of the box for most users.
- Embedded plugins: Spring and Guice.
We now support distributing the plugins along with JavaRebel instead of downloading and installing them separately. With this release we have included Spring and Guice, so you should be able to load new components and dependencies without redeploying. More plugins will be included as they are stabilized or contributed.
- Virtual classpath.
Another concern for many of our users is configuring the existing build/deploy environment to make use of JavaRebel class reloading. Not everyone can use the exploded development and -Drebel.dirs has limitations in support of new classes and resource propagation.
That’s why we implemented something we call a virtual classpath. The -Drebel.path property behaves similar to the -Drebel.dirs, except that instead of directories you can add WARs directly, with EARs and more advanced options coming soon. Virtual classpath will also propagate new classes and update your resources, like HTML or JSP files. It does require some extra configuration so take a look at the configuration manual.
NB! Virtual classpath is only supported on Tomcat, Jetty and WebLogic containers in this release.
- Improved API.
Besides the embeddable plugins we also now support third-party instrumentation. This will allow us to support e.g. AspectJ load-time weaving. Unfortunately the plugin itself didn’t make it into this release, but since the required infrastructure is now in place we can release it retroactively as a plugin.
A minor update to the stable branch that fixes a couple of issues that were reported since the previous release. It also adds support for JBoss 5. Check the changes or download it right away.
