Java News from Wednesday, June 6, 2007

IBM's developerWorks has published JavaOne 2007: Prodigal Sun returns to the client, my trip report from JavaOne.

Mark Doliner has released Cobertura 1.9, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) code coverage tool for Java. Changes in 1.9 include:

• Reports whether the true as well as the false of an if statement is collected.
• Assumes Java source files are saved as UTF-8 instead of the computer's default encoding.
• Writes all HTML and XML reports in UTF-8.
• Added a "maxmemory" attribute to the instrument, merge and report ant tasks
• Improves support for Maven and similar environments where control over system properties is difficult such as app servers, IoC containers, IDEs, etc.

If you're not already using another code coverage tool, this is definitely worth a look. Java 1.4 or later is required.