Mak­ing JEE & SCRUM work with Atomikos

Sure you've heard about JEE... And if you know SCRUM then you prob­a­bly also think that JEE is of­ten counter-pro­duc­tive be­cause of ap­pli­ca­tion-serv­er is­sues.

Well, it doesn't have to be like that: with Atomikos prod­ucts and in com­bi­na­tion with Spring and Hiber­nate, you can es­sen­tial­ly ditch the ap­pli­ca­tion serv­er and do every­thing in­side a reg­u­lar Java (JSE) vir­tu­al ma­chine. The ad­van­tage: you can test what you de­ploy (noth­ing else is gen­er­at­ed, noth­ing else is to be con­fig­ured in XML files or any­thing). This ac­tu­al­ly re­de­fines the mean­ing of test cov­er­age: in­stead of test­ing your ap­pli­ca­tion class­es, you can now also test most of the en­tire run­time as well, in­clud­ing the run­time jars. Add to that the tremen­dous im­prove­ment in turn-around time that Atomikos gives you, and you will nev­er want to do ag­ile in a dif­fer­ent way again...