
I use code coverage tools on a regular basis only to ensure that the
most complex areas of the code base are properly tested. I tend to
bravely fight the...
6 replies - 4032 views - 04/13/10 by Alex Ruiz in Articles

I want to be careful here, but also very clear - I advocate OSGi and
modularity, though am concerned about its future. In some circles, OSGi
is hailed as a...
7 replies - 7209 views - 04/13/10 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Competition is rarely what businesses really want, unless your company is trying to prove that it has a competitive market so that it can complete an...
1 replies - 13318 views - 04/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The native Java switch construct has been often criticized for its limited applicability, since it can operate only on ints, chars and (starting from Java 5)...
6 replies - 7158 views - 04/12/10 by Mario Fusco in Articles

I was sad to hear that James Gosling will be leaving Sun/Oracle. James has been a hero for me, and many others, in the both the Java community and the software...
16 replies - 15086 views - 04/10/10 by James Sugrue in News

I sometimes use the Builder pattern as defined in Effective Java 2nd Edition
item 2. Incidentally, I recommend this book to everybody writing Java
code....
3 replies - 7627 views - 04/10/10 by Manuel Selva in Articles

Today's pattern is the Prototype pattern which is utilized when creating an instance of a class is expensive or complicated. Prototype in
the Real...
2 replies - 12453 views - 04/09/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

A survey of 1,101 IT pros, with a focus on Java enterprise developers, was released this week by Replay Solutions, a company that offers a replay debugging...
2 replies - 6944 views - 04/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

It's been over a year since the release of Lift 1.0. For those of you who've never heard of Lift, it's a powerful web framework for Scala and Java...
0 replies - 6891 views - 04/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

In this post, I'll show you how to create a simple OSGI-based
servlet. Later, we will deploy this servlet to an Amazon EC 2 instance -
this should be...
1 replies - 5559 views - 04/08/10 by Peter Friese in Articles

I spent the past year developing <angular/>
in JavaScript (client) and Ruby on the server, and I have totally
changed my opinion of dynamic...
6 replies - 7448 views - 04/08/10 by Misko Hevery in Articles

(part one
and two)
In this installment, I’m going to cover the configuration storage
mechanism for this separate configuration jar...
0 replies - 2860 views - 04/07/10 by Julian Simpson in News

A US federal appeals court ruled in favor of Comcast this week in the ISP's net neutrality battle with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) which has...
1 replies - 11755 views - 04/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Because of the subject of my Bachelor's degree thesis, I am currently
busy learning more and more about Java technologies, in particular the
OSGi...
2 replies - 3573 views - 04/06/10 by Giorgio Sironi in News

Today's pattern is the Template Method pattern, which defines a stub for an algorithm, deferring some implementation steps to subclasses. Template in
the...
5 replies - 19971 views - 04/06/10 by James Sugrue in Articles