I'm in the early stages of combining several Java EE 5 projects into a single project (WAR, EJB, EAR, JARs, etc). To do that I needed to swap out EJB 3.0 for...
55 replies - 14146 views - 09/26/08 by Ryan De Laplante in Articles
I have received several emails over the past few weeks asking me for tips on how I manage writing articles on a continuous basis. As I said in one of my...
0 replies - 13471 views - 09/19/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles
Having spent many years on different online communities and forums, not least JavaLobby, I've noticed some trends about how developers act from behind their...
17 replies - 12282 views - 09/19/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
As a follow up of my Why GPL? Or: How the GPL eats the kittens it protects post, I’d like to discuss a few comments and explain some misconceptions, my own...
10 replies - 6264 views - 09/08/08 by Jörn Zaefferer in Articles
The GNU Public License is the best known for its viral aspects. Among the prominent GPL licensed software is of course the Linux core and MySQL. Recent...
12 replies - 7129 views - 09/03/08 by Jörn Zaefferer in Articles
People are good at turning concrete examples into generalization. The other way around, it does not work so well. So when I write about general concepts it is...
3 replies - 5882 views - 09/01/08 by Misko Hevery in Articles
One of the primary goals of every developer should be to prevent or drastically limit the number of bugs or defects from being introduced in their source code....
7 replies - 21898 views - 09/01/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles
Why is it that developers from these two communities don't like to see eye to eye? I have been using both Spring from its inception, and EJB's from 2001. Just...
33 replies - 49418 views - 08/27/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles
In Singletons are Pathological Liars we discussed the problems of having singletons in your code. Let’s build on that and answer the question “If I don’t...
11 replies - 5685 views - 08/27/08 by Misko Hevery in Articles
I will try here to explain why some enterprise libraries don't work with the OSGi concept. For this reason, I will create a simple Java library and client...
0 replies - 6642 views - 08/26/08 by Slim Ouertani in Articles
Sun has released a JavaFX preview. Having played around with it, here are my questions.Will using the scenegraph API conceivably consume less resources than a...
15 replies - 10127 views - 08/21/08 by Chui Tey in Articles
A new white paper by International Data Corporation (IDC), found
existing software quality approaches at most companies are inadequate
to address the...
7 replies - 5784 views - 08/21/08 by Martin steve in News
As developers, we solve problems for a living. We spend our hours at work fixing things, testing things, troubleshooting things. It gives one a great sense of...
3 replies - 4882 views - 08/20/08 by Collin Cusce in Articles
According to Neal Gafter, the story for closures it still wide open. As someone who writes a lot of code using closure-like mechanisms ... in the form of lots...
3 replies - 3599 views - 08/19/08 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles
Another DZone newsletter crosses my Inbox, and again I feel
compelled to comment. Not so much in the uber-aggressive style of my
previous attempt, since I...
6 replies - 6286 views - 08/14/08 by Ted Neward in Articles
