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JetBrains announced another pre-release of the fabulous IntelliJ IDEA 14 RC2, which I installed yesterday. For me, it is already working fine and they appeared to have a fixed troublesome core dump editor bug. The current IDE 13.1.5 crashes on Mac OS X and Windows, because a project compiled against Java 7 cannot be deployed […]

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I was asked by someone where can they download GlassFish. Of course, I pointed them to the official website. The site was revised in time for the Java EE 7 last year, and when I recently the ask advice that I passed on, then I realize the server download is old. So do we get […]

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I posted a video introduction for readers who are learning Java EE for the first time. This is useful for budding engineers who bought my recent book, Java EE 7 Developer Handbook, and want to understand how build the software using Git and Gradle. Introduction to Java EE 7 Developer Handbook from Peter Pilgrim on […]

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Thank you all for attending my Devoxx UK 2013 presentation earlier today: Test-Driven Development with Java EE 7, Arquillian and Embedded Containers. It was a total honour to be at the first United Kingdom franchise. I am very proud to have served the community. Here is the Slidedeck for the talk: Devoxx UK 2013 Test-Driven […]

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This post is about building GlassFish 4.0 snapshots release yourself and includes hacks. I found the official Instruction for FullBuild of GlassFish and then decided to build the server myself. Sometimes, you may not want to wait for the GlassFish build files to be promoted by the team. In this entry, I reference Artifactory as […]

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Very recently, perhaps towards end of last year, the GlassFish open source team released GlassFish 4.0 beta 72 as a promoted build. Arun Gupta posted an article on the Maven coordinates for the GlassFish 4 .0 beta 72 on his blog. This release was significant because the team published the artifacts into a maven repository. […]