Although there are some claims that dynamic languages do support refactoring, lets concentrate on the other claim — that statically typed languages are refactorable.

Beta release of JavaRebel Spring plugin lets you skip redeploy even when changing Spring configuration files or using the new annotation based configuration. It supports registering new Spring beans, adding/removing dependencies and adding new MVC controllers and handler methods.

We will give away 50 personal JavaRebel licenses to those who register first. Also personal licenses will be discounted to $49 until the end of summer.

JavaRebel offers permanent licenses to all JavaBlackBelt’s brown belts. This is a personal 1 seat commercial license that you can use to speed up your Java development. If you don’t have a brown belt yet, start taking the exams. This is the fifth and currently strongest belt offered so it won’t come easily.

The new release includes a reworked SDK that allows creating plugins for easier integration with third-party frameworks or containers. We have also open-sourced the integration part of JavaRebel as a special plugin. Additionally this release includes long-awaited support for IBM Websphere.

WP plugins (like the others already have — FF extensions, Eclipse plugins, Google Gadgets, WARs …) should have a solid structure so that the management of the plugins could be automated. One click install, update notifications or automatic updates, public repositories and other cool features can be built upon this.

Some insight into the innerworkings of Terracotta, report from QCon London.

Essay on Worse is Better Design with examples from Java OSS and closed source projects.

Just some Linux tips that I found useful. Bash function to scp your files and Python one-line HTTP server to your ~/.bashrc and moving those files becomes fun.

ZeroTurnaround is committing to continue reducing Java development turnaround by integrating with specific frameworks, and we invite you along for the ride.

JSP Weaver interprets the JSP markup on-the-fly instead of producing and compiling Java code. This reduces JSP reload times in development from tens of seconds to milliseconds.

Latest nightlies of JavaRebel support generic classloader integration. This article shows how to get instant turnaround in your application, no matter what it runs on.

This is how pair programming looks like from a hidden camera.