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Bill Dudney
Bill Dudney is Editor-in-Chief of Eclipse Developer's Journal and serves too as JDJ's Eclipse editor. He is a Practice Leader with Virtuas Solutions and has been doing Java development since late 1996 after he downloaded his first copy of the JDK. Prior to Virtuas, Bill worked for InLine Software on the UML bridge that tied UML Models in Rational Rose and later XMI to the InLine suite of tools. Prior to getting hooked on Java he built software on NeXTStep (precursor to Apple's OSX). He has roughly 15 years of distributed software development experience starting at NASA building software to manage the mass properties of the Space Shuttle. You can read his blog at http://jroller.com/page/BillDudney.

Java on Leopard - Enough Complaining
So while reviewing the release notes for Java on Leopard I noticed a couple of interesting bits. First they included junit 4.1 and maven 2.0.6 in the mix, which is great (except that maven 2.06 had some serious bugs with transitive dependencies). mvn is now on you...
Open Source Shark Jumping?
I read a pointer to this on /. the other day and mentally filed it to go back and see what the fuss was all about. I finally had time tonight. Bottom line, Mr. Gould does not get it. Clearly the IBM press release is about making it so Lotus Notes folks are not stuck...
Open Source Rocks!
While there I had the great pleasure of spending some time with Mike Milinkovich of Eclipse and Mike Taylor from Instations doing a webcast. They just released a new product RCP Developer and we spent some time talking about that and the advantages of the RCP.
JavaOne 2006: On the Ground
I'm in SF on the ground heading out to NetBeans day. I'll post my general impressions once there. I also have some stuff to do with the JCP. Should be interesting. I was just reviewing the session and there is as usual way too much to see but I'm going to get a ch...
JavaOne 2006: NetBeans Day Wrap-Up
Tons of interesting stuff came from today's NetBeans shindig. I am impressed with the progress they have made in just a year. The tool set is a lot better and seems to be making significant progress on the way to being a first class player. Yet another reason to b...
Bill Dudney's Weblog: Oracle Buying JBoss? Who Cares?
Ok, I've been following the hype and speculation about Oracle buying JBoss but the latest bit that I read on Business Week really got my dander up. It's not the article from BW that was irritating at all it was the comment by some one claiming to be 'Siddharth Gulha...
Bill Dudney's Blog: Open Source Compliance Insurance - More Evidence of Maturing Market
I'm not sure how I feel about insurance though. With insurance comes lawyers and with lawyers comes complexity. It will be interesting to see how many takers this type of insurance has.
i-Technology Viewpoint: Is Model Driven Architecture Coming Into Its Own?
With the popularity of Object Relational Mapping tools like Hibernate and Cayenne, developers are more often than other giving control of some of their code to models. Will this help raise MDA into the mainstream?
MyEclipse 4.0 Up On Deck: Exclusive Interview With Maher Masri, President, Genuitec
The MyEclipse team has been hard a work on getting the next major upgrade to their flagship out into our hands. We recently had a chance to catch up with Maher Marsi the president of Genuitec to find our more about this latest release.
Why "Eclipse Developer's Journal" and Why Now?
'The Eclipse ecosystem is huge and growing,' writes Eclipse Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Bill Dudney. 'The ecosystem will benefit from having an independent magazine devoted to the various aspects of Eclipse and I'm looking forward to Eclipse Developer's ...
Eclipse 3.1 M4 - "Cool New Stuff," Says JDJ's Eclipse Editor Bill Dudney
The Eclipse team is well on the way to the 3.1 release. The current release is M4 with M5 to follow in less than two weeks (M5 is due Feb 18th). 'I made the plunge to 3.1M4,' reports JDJ's Eclipse editor, Bill Dudney. 'I've been using it for about 4 weeks now and ...
Developer Testing Is 'In'
A few weeks ago Agitar Software announced that Kent Beck had joined their team. I sat down and talked with Alberto Savoia, CTO, and Kent Beck, Agitar Fellow, to find out what prompted the move and what Agitar is up to that is so exciting.
Integrating with Eclipse: Exclusive interview with Lee Nackman VP, Desktop Development Tools & CTO, Rational Software
In July IBM announced that the Rational tool set would be fully integrated within the Eclipse tool set and would provide an integrated set of tools to support the full life cycle of software development. Recently I was able to interview Lee Nackman, the CTO of the...
JUnit, Assertions, and Management
When it comes to code, Bill Dudney wonders, how do we measure what 'good' is? 'As a developer I find code coverage results to be a fantastic tool to determine if my developer tests are covering all the code under test that they should,' he writes. 'All too often t...
Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney on the Web Tools Project
The Web Tools Project (WTP) consists of two major contributions, one from IBM and the other from ObjectWeb. The IBM contribution consists of pieces of their development tools for WebSphere while the ObjectWeb contribution is what was known as Lomboz. In this initi...
Exclusive Q & A with Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation
On June 1, 2004, the Eclipse Board of Directors named Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. The hunt had been on since Eclipse became an independent entity earlier this year. Here JDJ's Eclipse editor, Bill Dudney, talks exclusively wi...
SYS-CON Radio interviews the Eclipse Foundation
SYS-CON Radio interviews Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation
SYS-CON Radio interviews Sun Microsystems
SYS-CON Radio interviews John Crupi, Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems.
SYS-CON Radio interviews eBay
SYS-CON Radio interviews Jeff McMannis, Senior Manager of Platform Evangelism for eBay.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Exadel
SYS-CON Radio interviews Denis Ulyanov, Chief Software Architect of Exadel
SYS-CON Radio interviews Versant
SYS-CON Radio interviews Manish Chandra, Vice President Worldwide Marketing for Versant.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Fiorano
SYS-CON Radio interviews Sriram Chakravarthy, Director of Product Management for Fiorano
SYS-CON Radio interviews VERITAS Software
SYS-CON Radio interviews Tom Mulvehill, Product Line Manager for VERITAS Software
Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney Looks at New Stuff in M9
M9 has been out now for a couple of weeks, and wow, has the Eclipse team made some major progress! The tool has lots of new features (which we will look at shortly) but also has some great performance fixes and fleshing out of existing features. In particular the ...
Eclipse Special: Remote Debugging Tomcat & JBoss Apps with Eclipse
Over the last several weeks I've received a few questions about remote debugging with Eclipse. I posted about this on my other article back in February but with not enough info for others to follow.
Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney Looks at the Change Method Signature Refactoring
This column contains an excerpt from one of the refactoring chapters in my book Eclipse 3 Live. The book will eventually contain similar sections for all the refactorings available in Eclipse.
Eclipse Special: Bill Dudney Looks at Eclipse M8 Close-Up
JDJ's new online Eclipse columnist, Bill Dudney, has been using M8 for two weeks now and has accumulated a lot of notes of what he likes and doesn't like in this latest of the drops - the new Eclipse M8 drop - before we finally get to the feature-complete Eclipse 3.0.