Archive for December, 2007

Intalio|BPMS 5.1 is out

Published on December 26, 2007 in BPMN, Eclipse and Intalio. 0 Comments

I’m very happy to announce that we made a new release of Intalio|BPMS.

We have fixed bugs in this release, introduced a new tool named “Insert space” (it deserves a separate blog post that should come soon).

Overall the modeling experience is now even smoother.

We also upgraded Designer and Server to support java 6.

You can get all this new stuff for free right now on our community web site.

Happy holidays!

I’m speaking at EclipseCon 2008

Published on December 19, 2007 in BPMN and Eclipse. 1 Comment


I'm speaking at EclipseCon 2008

I will be talking about the BPMN modeler in a tutorial session, along with Hugues Malphettes and Alex Boisvert. You can chat with us on this mailing list if you have questions, or would like to help with the tutorial.

Please leave a comment if you want to meet for a beer!

NLS and StringBuffer

Published on December 17, 2007 in BPMN and Eclipse. 7 Comments

I was surprised to find in the M4 News And Noteworthy list a shortcut to change a concatenated String to StringBuffer.

At first, it looks like a good idea.

String s = "offset " + offset + " is at line " + line;

is changed to:

StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
stringBuffer.append("offset ");
stringBuffer.append(offset);
stringBuffer.append(" is at line ");
stringBuffer.append(line);

I know using StringBuffers is better for performance UPDATE: I confused StringBuffer with StringBuilder! look at this bug for changing StringBuffer to StringBuilder.

I would have rather been going for this:

NLS.bind("offset {0} is at line {1}", offset, line);

Just because this is so much easier to internationalize.

I have almost finished doing i18n for the BPMN modeler, a component of the STP project, and I really lost time on such cases.

Just my $0.02!