Developer tools

The release of OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 brings support for vsphere cloud provider. This provides vsphere VMDK dynamic provisioning for persistent volumes for container workloads. The storage presented to vsphere virtual machines as a VMDK has ReadWriteOnce access mode. In the OCP 3.6 on vSphere reference architecture, much of this process is automated and can be implemented easily. Virtual Machine Disks or VMDKs exists in virtual machines. Configuring the OCP cluster for vsphere cloud provider support requires: Master Node Configuration...

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Distributed Architectures are a lot like neural networks; all services that talk to each other need to share the I/O in and in a way that they can synchronize that information on the fly. The way the brain does is that each neuron that communicates with another has the other neuron fire back a neurotransmitter to synchronize and improve that communication in the future thus creating a pattern. While this behavior is almost identical to what is known as a...

Red Hat JBoss Fuse is an open source, lightweight and modular integration platform that allows you to connect services and systems across your entire application portfolio. If you’re familiar with Fuse, you’re probably familiar with the Fuse Tooling that comes with Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio. If you read carefully the last announcement for Red Hat Development Tools, you may have noticed that Fuse Tooling and Fuse runtimes are now part of Development Suite. That new feature might seem like...

Besides testing, Java code coverage can be a very effective debugging tool as it helps you see which code is ran. EclEmma is a great Java code coverage tool that has an Eclipse plugin. It's very simple and intuitive and has all you would expect from a code coverage tool. With it, you can: See code coverage for a java application that you've run (and potentially merge multiple run instances) See code coverage for jUnit tests and maven tests See...

I am pleased to announce immediate availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 7.0 Beta and three new compiler toolsets for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Delivered on a separate lifecycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a more frequent release cadence, Red Hat Developer Toolset and compilers bridge development agility and production stability by helping you create performant applications that can be confidently deployed into production. TL;DR This beta release brings these exciting new compilers to our Red Hat Enterprise...

This year JavaOne 2017 is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA during October 1-5, I will be a holding a session for reactive programming covering The Reactive Landscape. In this session, I'm going to explain what does "reactive" mean. There are many reactive things today, are all these "things" related? In addition, many concepts are associated with reactive such as messaging, elasticity, streams back-pressure and RX. This presentation explores the reactive landscape and explains the different...

It has been a year since I posted the announcement about the availability of the Java Language Support for Visual Studio Code. During this past year, we made 10 releases, added various features, fixed many bugs but more importantly, we have constantly grown our user base and finally reached and passed a million downloads on the Visual Studio Marketplace. Fred Bricon, Snjezana Peco and I, as the core team have worked on the Java Language Server and the Visual Studio...

It has long been recognized that unconstrained growth of memory usage constitutes a potential denial of service vulnerability. Qualys has shown that such unconstrained growth can be combined with other vulnerabilities and exploited in ways that are more serious. Typically, the heap and stack of a process start at opposite ends of the unused address space and grow towards each other. This maximizes the flexibility to grow the regions over the course of execution of the program without apriori knowing...

Introduction I'm working on the upstream fabric8-wit project of openshift.io. In this Go project, we embrace testing as best as we can in order to deliver a stable component. Testing acts as our safety net to allow for fast-paced feature development. This blog post is about our recent change in our testing strategy. It is not as boring as it might sound at first. ;-) Problem description We've changed out the data-model quite a lot and it took us a...

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Typical CI process (source: www.pepgotesting.com) Continuous Integration (CI) is a phase in the software development cycle where code from different team members or different features are integrated together. This usually involves merging code (integration), building the application and carrying out basic tests all within an ephemeral environment. In the past, the code was integrated at an “integration phase” of the software development life cycle. This phase came after different teams would have spent weeks, months or even years working in...

Several Red Hat engineers attended the JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ Standards Committee meetings in July 2017. This post focuses on the sessions of SG1, the study group on parallelism and concurrency. We discussed several synchronization-related proposals, improvements for futures, and, of course, executors. Also, I proposed a few steps that the SG1 community could take to get more efficient in how it conducts its work, which are all inspired by how successful open source projects work. Most of the proposals we discussed...

Red Hat JBoss Fuse provides an open source, lightweight, modular platform that enables you to connect a variety of services and systems across your application environment. And, included with Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, is the Fuse Tooling that helps you take advantage of that platform. The route editor initially focused on the parts of the Camel configuration inside the route or Camel context element, but in version 8.0.0, we began adding support for global elements such as data formats...

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) offers many different types of persistent storage. Persistent storage ensures that data should be insistent between builds and container migrations. When choosing a persistent storage backend to ensure that the backend supports the scaling, speed, dynamic provisioning, RWX/RWO support and redundancy that the project requires. Container-Ready Storage (CRS), or native Gluster for OCP, is defined by the concept of persistent volumes, which are OCP created objects that allow storage to be defined and then used by...

I’m extremely pleased to announce the latest releases of our Red Hat developer tools, available on multiple platforms. The general theme of this release is expanded usability, product integration, expanded support for Middleware products in Development Suite, plus the brand new addition of Kompose and the DevTools channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This collection of tools has been assembled into an easy-to-use installer to help software developers quickly and easily put together a development environment to create containerized enterprise...

JBoss Tools 4.5 and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11.0 for Eclipse Oxygen are here waiting for you. Check it out! Installation JBoss Developer Studio comes with everything pre-bundled in its installer. Simply download it from our Red Hat Developers and run it like this: java -jar jboss-devstudio-.jar JBoss Tools or Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse (BYOE) JBoss Developer Studio requires a bit more: This release requires at least Eclipse 4.7 (Oxygen) but we recommend using the latest Eclipse 4.7 Oxygen JEE Bundle since...

Note: This is an updated version of a post I wrote for my private blog years ago. While working on the REST API of RHQ a long time ago, I had started writing some integration tests against it. Doing this via pure HTTP calls is very tedious and brittle. So, I was looking for a testing framework to help me and found one that I used for some time. I tried to enhance it a bit to better suit my...

EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, has always been a challenging domain to support for organizations. As EDI standards cover a large range of industries, from supply chain to medical to financial services (FSI), the standards rapidly evolve and change over time, thus requiring constant maintenance. The sheer cost of maintaining standards is high, not only for organizations but also for EDI software vendors who struggle to keep up. The expensive fees paid to standards organizations and rapidly evolving releases are...

Android is one of the most used mobile operating systems in the market with an estimated market share of approximately 84.82%. Millions of apps loom in the Android OS, for various tasks and it's a shame that only a small percentage of the apps have a well-developed user interface (UI), which is flexible and adaptable to various mobile sizes. For an average user, they want their apps to look good and do well. However, if you are an app developer...

In the previous part of this blog, I talked about the most important steps to get your project to compile with the latest Framework version. The migration has been done through the first three steps mentioned here, and in this post, I will go over the least complicated steps of migration. Steps 4 and 5 cover the modernization of your project with the latest Framework 8 features. If you are in a hurry, you can do this later on as...

It’s been over a month since I spoke at the Red Hat Summit in Boston and now that the dust has settled, I thought you might be interested in reading a brief summary of my Lightning Talk on Five OpenShift Development Environments in Five Minutes. In the presentation, I spoke about five different ways that you can create an OpenShift development environment within minutes. This included oc cluster up, Vagrant All in One Box, Minishift, a Fabric8 technology, and the...

Surely, you too have been frustrated, while single-stepping optimized programs in symbolic debuggers, by the Brownian motion in the source code, and by never being sure, when you reach a certain source line (if you can reach it at all), whether or not earlier lines have taken effect. Our frustration is about to be significantly alleviated, thanks to two new pieces of technology about to be contributed to the GNU toolchain. Statement Frontier Notes are stable markers of source locations...