Arquillian provides a easy mechanism to test your application code inside a remote or embedded container or by interacting as a client of the container.

Gaelyk is a lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine Java.

SightWF is a JAVA web framework build on top of the J2EE technologies and particularly on top of the servlet API. SightWF has initially been created to be deployed on Google App Engine and can be run in a J2EE servlet container such as Tomcat.

The wheels on the bus go round and round.

That song has been running through my head constantly over the past several days. Though it has been a long time since I've been on a bus this long so the lyrics "The people on the bus go up and down." is more meaningful to me now than it has ever been... man this bus is bouncy!

As some of you may have read a few days ago we announced that Atlassian was sponsoring The Startup Bus in its journey from San Francisco to Austin, TX for SXSW interactive 2010, and I was the lucky Atlassian who was selected to go along for the ride.

I had anticipated blogging about the experience more frequently but lack of reliable wi-fi and a non stop schedule has prevented me from pushing out the great content we've been capturing on the bus - but what I've found is that when everyone leaves the bus the wi-fi works much better so I decided to take the opportunity of a nice long lunch break to fill the Atlassian blog's readers in.

It has been quite a journey so far. Everything started on Monday with a kick off party at Atlassian headquarters in San Francisco. The event turned into a bit of a hack session as the buspreneurs were finishing up the features of the website for launch the next morning which came a little too early as the bus left around 6:30 a.m. and the site still wasn't finished. More hacking between San Francisco and Cupertino for a visit to HP's Executive Briefing Center for a session innovation with Phil McKinney, HP's CTO.

After an inspirational talk about how to come up with innovative ideas the team got profile photos taken and we were off to LA. Between San Francisco and LA the group split into teams and conceived their ideas. This is when the fun really started as there were only a few short hours to solidify the idea before pitching it to random people in Santa Monica on video. Video that we haven't been able to upload - but there is a LOT of content!

The bus continued on to Palm Springs for some rest (or I think its called rest - I haven't had any for a while).

Unfortunately my lunch break is almost over so I will need to fill you in on day two of the bus ride later, so stay tuned.

Incidently the Startup that I'm working on is called BeNeighbor.ly - which is a site that promises to bring together people in need with people who want to help. More details on that can be found on The Startup Bus blogs. As a fun little game people can invest virtual dollars in the startups you like best. So make our day and go invest in your favorite! (beneighbor.ly :)

Signing off for now.

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There are more than 2 million businesses worldwide using Google Apps, and roughly 3,000 new ones sign-up for Google Apps each day. Atlassian is in the process of migrating from Zimbra to Google Apps, which many of us are eagerly awaiting, especially since most have been forwarding their mail from Zimbra to Google Mail anyway. Google Apps is a juggernaut, and it's no wonder Google is proud of the response it continues to receive.

The analog to Google Apps at Atlassian is JIRA Studio, our hosted software development suite. JIRA Studio (Studio for short) is our fastest growing product, which shouldn't be a surprise. In a single, hosted, just-turn-it-on-and-it-works product, Studio combines source control (Subversion), issue tracking (JIRA), agile planning (GreenHopper), enterprise wiki (Confluence), code browsing (FishEye), code reviews (Crucible) and continuous integration (Bamboo). All of that, beautifully integrated, and hosted as a single service. As a customer, you don't worry about managing or upgrading it - we take care of all that. Studio helps teams build great software, by giving them the tools they need to manage code and development projects, without the hassle of managing those tools.

So when Google decided to relaunch the Google Apps marketplace, it's no surprise they thought of Studio. For developers inside companies using Google Apps, Studio is the perfect complement. And now it's a perfectly integrated complement.

JIRA Studio for Google Apps
As of today, JIRA Studio is available from the Google Apps Marketplace. If you're a Google Apps customer, you can add Studio directly to your domain, straight from the marketplace. This means you'll logon to Studio using your Google username and password. If you're already logged in to Google Apps, JIRA Studio appears as a menu item at the top of any Google application, and you'll be signed in automatically to Studio when you select it.

But that's not all. We've also added some nifty features to Studio that integrate Google Apps and Studio together. The features are described in better detail here and include:

• attaching Google Docs to issue: any docs (spreadsheets, presentations, documents) you manage in Google Docs can be attached to JIRA issues in Studio. And a single click on the doc from Studio takes you back to Google Docs to edit them, automatically logged-on.
• embedding Google Docs and lists of documents in the wiki: the wiki's macro browser (a visual page editor for adding components) has a few new Google page components that let you embed individual documents, or whole lists of documents, inside a wiki page.


• JIRA Studio Activity Bar: we've added a single launch bar that spans the bottom of every page in Studio. The Activity Bar lets users see the important updates from the tools they use most across both systems (unread message from Gmail, meetings from Google Calendar, recent issue from JIRA, outstanding code reviews, etc.), and integrated chat from Google Talk, so you can IM directly with your teams from any page.


• gadgets in Gmail: Studio, like many of our products, supports OpenSocial, and OpenSocial gadgets from Studio can be added to Google applications, like Gmail, giving some users that live in email a quick snapshot of open issues or project activity in the tool they use most.

We're excited about the combination, and the opportunity this presents Studio. We hope that many of those companies "Going Google" will also "Go Studio." Learn more at http://www.atlassian.com/google, or if you want to dive right into what Studio offers, check out http://www.atlassian.com/studio.

Oh, and here's a little video we put together to explain the combination at a high level. Hope you enjoy it:

SJUG:Michael Neale on RESTeasy, Matt Quail on Objectify
When: 6:00pm for 6:30 start, Thursday, 11th March 2010.

Where: Atlassian HQ, 173-185 Sussex St

Who: Michael Neale will be presenting first about 'RESTful web services in java (jax-rs/RESTEasy)'. Michael works for Red Hat, in the JBoss division, on the Drools project. He lives in the Blue Mountains, and has been working with java on and off since 2001.
The second presentation will given by Matt Quail on 'Objectify: The simplest possible typed abstraction to the Google App Engine datastore'. Matt is our lead architect of the FishEye and Crucible products. In his spare time he has recently become a committer on the Objectify project.

Cost: free (we're sponsoring beer and pizza on the night, as usual)

RSVP: before Thursday night

Agile Australia call for speakers Atlassian is pleased to be sponsoring Agile Australia again this year. This year's Agile Australia conference is to be held in Melbourne in September with the theme "Delivering business value with Agile!".

There is currently a call out for speakers for both Speaking spots and Lighting Presenters (submissions close end of April).
So if you're interested in Agile, make sure you throw your hat in the ring under one of these umbrellas:

• Business Value
• Culture, Leadership, People
• Agile Organisation, Process and practice
• Innovation and Emerging Ideas

by downloading, or submitting an application from www.agileaustralia.com.

Entire product portfolio now supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC 
Waltham, MA, March 10, 2010 - Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, announced today their Q1 2010 release, consisting of a complete update of the Telerik .NET developer toolbox and the official release of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and JustCode. This release is further marked by significant performance innovations in the company's Silverlight and WPF UI controls, full support across all products for Visual Studio 2010 RC, as well as a new productivity-enhancing visual designer for OpenAccess ORM. 

"Telerik's Q1 2010 release is a result of our commitment to pursue product excellence, in richness, performance, and productivity", said Vassil Terziev, Telerik CEO. "Our steadfast focus on customers continues to translate into timely delivery of leading-edge updates across the entire Telerik product portfolio that push .NET developer productivity to new heights."

Q1 2010 delivers the official releases of two products introduced by Telerik as betas in late 2009. The Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC suite includes four new components, designed to enable high-performance productivity for building MVC UI. A new commercial license for the Extensions is also available in Q1, complementing the existing open source option. Telerik's code analysis and refactoring tool, JustCode, also officially released in Q1, offers full support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, additional refactorings, and significant performance optimizations. 

The Q1 2010 Telerik XAML controls include serious performance optimizations, making them the highest performing, full-featured UI components on the market. Developers and end-users now benefit from highly responsive data-centric controls, capable of working with millions of data items. 

Telerik continues to raise the bar for data access productivity in Q1 2010 with the introduction of the new Visual Designer for OpenAccess ORM. It gives developers the ability to visually create a domain model and have a working data-driven project in minutes. With the visual designer, OpenAccess combines the simplicity of visual ORM configuration with the Enterprise-grade power of the OpenAccess ORM data engine. Also added in Q1 2010 is support for embedded SQL database engine, VistaDB. 

The new release brings a new declarative data source engine to Telerik Reporting. The new data engine allows full control over data management, and delivers significant gains in report rendering performance and memory consumption. The new engine comes with support for data source parameters, stored procedures, calculated fields, and user-defined aggregates.

Also available in this release is a new version of Telerik's Visual Style Builder for the RadControls for WinForms. The tool provides a quick and codeless way for developers to create and customize control skins without the need to know RadControls essentials. The new tool delivers unprecedented productivity for styling WinForms UI.

Furthermore, the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite adds two new controls to the suite in Q1 2010, RadFilter and RadAsyncUpload, and comes with full support for Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET 4.0 RC. This also includes out-of-the-box Intellisense for RadControl client-scripts, making developers more productive when they choose to write JavaScript code. 

PricingPricing of the Telerik Premium Collection for .NET, including all suites, Reporting, OpenAccess ORM, JustCode and Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, is $1,299 per developer seat. The license comes with priority support, guaranteeing 24-hour response time, as well as full C# source code, redistribution rights, and free updates to the latest products for one year.

Atlassian hosted a launch party for most of the Startup Bus crew last night. Over 40 people, many just meeting for the first time, gathered to get their survival kits*, eat, drink and talk about the next 48 hours on the road. We're happy to sponsor the Bus and we're keeping an eye on it as it makes its way to SXSW.

Now here's the fun part. Not only can you follow their Twitter stream here or become a fan on Facebook, you can also track their code commits. Every time they make a code commit via JIRA Studio, it's geotagged and displayed on an interactive Google Map on their website. Nice!

The party pics

* Survival kit included water, granola bar, an apple, a Confluence t-shirt, product brochure, bottle opener, beer koozie, water and Tic Tac breath mints.

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We're happy to let you know that we have launched two new exciting betas for our IDE connectors.

Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.0-BETA

We have also launched the first beta of our brand new Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio. The Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio is the latest addition to the Atlassian IDE connectors, which also includes the Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ IDEA.

Release 1.0 of Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio will allow you to integrate JIRA issue tracker and Bamboo continuous integration server into your Visual Studio environment. Some features include:

• Search for JIRA issues quickly from within Visual Studio, or load up a list of issues from one of your favourite filters.
• View your issues in Visual Studio and get all the details you need without having to leave your IDE.
• Directly comment on your issues, log work against the issue, or transition your issue in its workflow.


• Monitor your Bamboo builds in Visual Studio.

For more details of the Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.0-BETA, please check out our release notes

Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0-BETA

The Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0 introduces numerous new features, including:

• a new review perspective for working on reviews


• creating new reviews from any folder, file, or code selection


• adding files to open reviews
• for post-commit reviews, we've added support for all SCMs which are supported in Crucible, including Perforce, GIT, and ClearCase.


• handy pre-defined issue filters


• restriction of comment visibility for issue comments.

In addition, Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0 marks the first release where the JIRA Mylyn features will be hosted by Atlassian. Previously, the JIRA Mylyn Connector was hosted by the Eclipse Mylyn project. The migration is driven by Atlassian's commitment to further enhance the connector. The entire Atlassian Connector for Eclipse project will continue to be open source and distributed under the EPL.

For more details about the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0-BETA, please check out our release notes

What Next?

We want your help to make these connectors even better! If you are using Eclipse or Visual Studio, please try out these connectors, and share your feedback by:

• Posting to our forums, at: http://forums.atlassian.com/forum.jspa?forumID=124
• Creating issues directly under the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse or Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio projects at studio.atlassian.com.

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