Aspect Oriented Programming - A Different Aspect.
Yesterday I was having a meeting about a new project startup. At some level the meeting was stuck on an argument of logging. Well I suggested the same... more »
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JBoss Cache 3.0.0 Alpha Available
The first alpha of JBoss Cache 3.0.0 - codenamed Naga - is out and available for download. In a nutshell, it is a truly open source (LGPL) distributed... more »
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Useful Eclipse Code Templates
Eclipse's Java editor allows you to define code templates. You can use them to code complete things that you type all the time, such as get logger,... more »
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SOAFaces - Component Framework for SOA + RIA Development
The goal of the SOAFaces project is to provide developers with an API for building SOA and RIA powered component (GWT + SOA) that can be composed... more »
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This Time Last Year...
As a recent member of 30s club I decided to compare a few things with last year. This time last year I was just starting a new project and a new... more »
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SpringSource Enterprise Available To All
SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, and a leading provider of infrastructure software, today announced... more »
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Code Reuse Myth
I am of the firm belief that code reuse is a personal responsibility, and should never be a corporate endeavor. Unfortunately, thousands of CIOs and... more »
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Deliver a Good Return of Investment Unit Testing Code
It has always been my belief that comprehensive integration/functional testing of code is far far more important/productive than to blindly try to... more »
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Adding SWT Input Validation the Easy Way
Any input provided by a user in a GUI application must typically be validated in one way or another. There is a number of ways this gets done, while... more »
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Take Your Eclipse Development One Step Further With Instantiations Tools
Instantiations just recently received the IBM Rational Software Validation for WindowBuilder Pro and have also been listed in the SD Times Top 100... more »
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Letting Java's Garbage Collector Do Callbacks
Garbage collection in Java is great, but in some cases you want to listen when an object is garbage collected. In my case I had the following... more »
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Web 2.0 and the Art of Bull
Marketing. Ain’t it grand? All those jingles in your head, all the brands you buy, all the old AOL discs you have floating around… who is to thank?... more »
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TopLink Makes Transition to Open Source
The Eclipse Persistence Services project (EclipseLink) has completed its incubation phase and the 1.0 release is available for download. This release... more »
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From Java to ActionScript 3
I have been a dedicated Java developer for over 5 years. Not only that, but I consider myself a Java enthusiast. For several reasons, however, I have... more »
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Setting the "Stage" for the JavaFX SDK
As I mentioned in the JavaFX SDK Packages are Taking Shape post, the JavaFX SDK will have a "node-centric" UI approach. This approach will make it... more »
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JProfiler: Your Java Code Could be Running Faster in Under Two Hours
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in a position which is well known to any professional Java developer: my software was simply too slow. After... more »
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The Reality of Bad Programmers
I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately outlining what defines a bad programmer. I find this to be a particularly interesting topic myself as often... more »
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Why I'm Not a Fan Of Java's Auto-Unboxing
Starting with Java 1.5, the Java compiler started automatically taking care of converting boxed versions of primitive types into primitive types where... more »
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Speaking To Your Domain
Domain Specific Languages (DSL) have been gaining popularity steadily for quite some time. We'll jump right to some little experiments, but those... more »
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REST vs REST
REST is becoming the buzz word of this year. After spending 4 years developing an open-source REST web services framework you might think I should be... more »
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An Enhancement to NanoXML, the Extremely Compact Java XML Parser
The proliferation of XML for data interchange and configuration file format have resulted in numerous open-source Java XML Parser libraries (left... more »
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A Simple Templating System for Java
A templating system allows generating the text for HTML, emails, SQL, etc. without hardcoding the text in Java. This greatly improves the managability... more »
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Bridge the Dynamic Gap
Let's focus on two aspects of modern IDEs that are aimed at helping developers with Java background edit code in dynamic languages with more... more »
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Domain Driven Design: Domain Services or Method on an Entity?
There has been much discussion on the DDD list regarding where to put the business logic control, whether in a service or entity. Being more specific,... more »
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Done, And Get Things Smart
Everyone knows and quotes Joel's old chestnut, "Smart, and Gets Things Done." It was a blog, then a book, and now it's an aphorism. People quote... more »
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