This article is inspired by an older blog post. I’ve updated it to reflect modern languages and technologies. “It works fine on MY computer. Come and see it in action if you don’t believe me” “Who did you login as? Are you an administrator?” “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature” “That’s weird…” “It’s never done that before.” “It worked ...

This post is a revision of the original post, published last year and it covered Sonar version 2.8. Many months has passed and during this period the Sonar Team released four(4) new versions of the ultimate quality platform. The latest version ( 2.12 ) now includes JaCoCo in its core implementation and the existing plugin is now deprecated. Since I ...

OSGI, SpringSource, Jboss Modules, J2EE and the list never ends.All these technologies promise to their end users/developers the same thing which is more or less java modular web applications (?). How many of us out there, though, have actually tried to develop a REAL modular software system in Java? How many of us have managed to get it done? You ...