Today’s software development is unthinkable without automated testing; e.g., writing unit tests using the JUnit framework. Read the article here. Also, with Apple’s release of the Java source code for Rendezvous, developers can create Rendezvous-enabled applications for other platforms, as well as Mac. Michael Brewer shows you how.
JDemo: Interactive Testing Refactored; Mac Rendezvous with Java
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Rendezvous looks like an interresting thecnology, atleast
for small networks. One thing I’m wondering, doesn’t its
functions somewhat overlap with SLP(RFC 2608) , see also
http://www.openslp.org for an implementation.
Yes – ZeroConf (‘Rendezvous’ is just Apple’s implementation of it) has goals almost identical to SLP (and early versions of OS X apparently did use SLP instead of Rendezvous). In contrast to SLP, however, ZeroConf attempts to leverage the existing infrastructure (DNS in particular) instead of inventing its own.
See http://www.zeroconf.org/ for more information.