Developers’ Guide to Java & Eclipse 2010 - EE Catalog

1 Purchasing guides for Developers and IT ProfessionalsGold SponsorDevelopers Guide to java & Eclipse Guide to java and Eclipse 2010 Welcome to theDevelopers Guide to java & Eclipse 2010!Movement from desktop to mobile changes the technical develop-ment and the business equation for the development you build it, they will come. While that doesn t always work in technology, it certainly seems to be the case in the low-power area. java developers are jumping onto lower-power platforms, which are having a profound effect on java development from both technical and business the technology side, enterprise java development is moving off the desktop environment and onto the mobile platform. Regardless of the development framework be it Eclipse , NetBeans or even JDe-veloper more companies are looking to streamline their existing enterprise java -code base for the mobile are changes afoot on the business side, as well.

2 java always has been aligned with the open source move-ment, meaning free is the preferred price for tools and frameworks. Still, when it comes to enterprise, mission-crit-ical applications, most companies prefer to work with proven java environments from the big companies meaning costly. A number of lesser-known but robust tools vendors seem to be proving themselves in the java development environment with software that is much less expensive than traditional companies. While it s not free, it brings these tools (including debuggers and testers) within the reach of many more software trends toward embedded, mobile platforms and lower cost development environments seem to mirror the world of embedded hardware systems.

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4 Developers Guide to java & Eclipse is Copyright 2010 Extension Media LLC. No information in this Catalog may be reproduced without expressed written permission from Extension Media @ 1786 18th Street, San Francisco, CA registered trademarks and trademarks included in this Catalog are held by their respective companies. Every attempt was made to include all trademarks and registered trademarks where indicated by their Guide to java & Eclipse 2010 These software trendstoward embedded, mobile platforms and lower cost development environments seem to mirror the world of embedded 3 ContentsJReport in the Cloud & Eclipseby Jinfonet Software .. 4 Open Source BI vs Closed Source BIby Jinfonet Software .. 5 Product Newsby Cameron Bird.

5 6 java Community Resourcesby Jim Kobylecky .. 8 java Goes Mobileby John Blyler .. 10 DevelopmentComponentsMelissa DataData Quality Tools for java Developers .. 11 Development ToolsExcelsior LLCE xcelsior JET for Eclipse Rich Client 12 Integrated Development EnvironmentsGenuitecMyEclipse Enterprise Workbench .. 13 Reporting ToolsSAPC rystal Reports for Eclipse .. 14 Testing Toolsfroglogic GmbHSquish for java .. 15 DeploymentServersStratus TechnologiesStratus ftServer Family of Systems .. 16 Products and Services4 Developers Guide to java and Eclipse 2010 JReport Cloud provides agility for rapidly and inexpensively re-provisioning infrastructure resources, greatly reduces the cost on hardware, software, and services when users pay only for what they use.

6 JReport Cloud has the ability to easily scale up with customers needs, and offers the high avail-ability and high reliability with task level load balancing and failover based on JReport clustering technology. JReport Enterprise Server can be easily deployed in a Cloud with the support of Amazon EC2, KVM or VMware. JReport Cloud provides the full power of JReport Server including report bursting, page-level security, dashboards, dynamic reporting and analysis and many other features for enhanced usability, scalability and enterprise deployment. JReport Cloud provides a great solution to help IT depart-ments reduce the cost and complexity in report delivery and dynamic report interaction.

7 With the high scalability, high availability and high reliability of the cloud environ-ment, the system maintenance costs will be lowered to a minimum. Shuyan Liu, VP of Engineering. JReport for Eclipse (JR4E) is a free JReport add-on that provides Eclipse users a convenient platform for developing both applications and reports at the same time. Users can easily design reports via an Eclipse -style interactive user interface. JR4E is very easy to use with single click deploy-ment and HTML report preview so that Eclipse users can test and debug the project intuitively which greatly accel-erates the development cycle. JR4E supports many report components including tabular layouts, crosstabs, charts, banded layouts, labels, images, formulas, parameters, etc.

8 Intuitive wizards are provided to speed the design of report components. In addition, JR4E supports advanced reporting features such as imported SQL and stored procedure data sources, custom CSS styles, shared datasets with filters, report linking, and more. JR4E will accelerate the devel-opment of Eclipse -based applications for both enterprises and ISVs. Eclipse users will find JR4E very efficient in the development, integration and deployment of reporting applications. Robin Davies, VP Sales. by Jinfonet Software JReport gives you a more feature rich, mature and lower risk reporting system than open source solutions while keeping the complexity and cost lower than traditional Business Intelligence platforms.

9 Dr. Bing Yao, Jinfonet CEO. JReport is now available for immediate delivery. For more information, visit or call (240) in the Cloud & EclipseCONTACT USJinfonet many of you may have noticed, Open Source software solutions have been making major waves in the Business Intelligence community as of late. Here at Jinfonet Soft-ware, being a closed source, commercial solution, this comes across my mind on a regular basis. I thought I would sit down with a group of great development minds here, put our heads together to see how the two different options stack up in terms of being a total solution, cost effective, secure, timely, and offering proper support.

10 This will be part one of a 5 part series comparing open and closed source business intelligence started with the notion of initial concept. When concep-tualizing a software solution you are going to start with an idea; organize your thoughts, then technically plan out the process of development. From day one, a closed source software application is being developed to be a complete entity, an all in one encom-passing solution to take care of its users needs. If you take a look at all of the major software companies, including Oracle, Microsoft, etc, they have been very successful with this business model. One of the major reasons being, their plan of action is to provide you with a solution to your needs.