
Some people find value in having centralized, declarative configurations of XML files. However, many of the things in those files are not configuration and...
15 replies - 26450 views - 04/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Lately I started using the core Hamcrest matchers bundled with the JUnit framework to create more readable unit tests.
Hamcrest matchers were created to...
2 replies - 19880 views - 04/05/10 by Rafael Naufal in Articles

Apple's "next big thing" was released in stores today, but the apps have been available since yesterday. These pre-release apps included Netflix...
0 replies - 13889 views - 04/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Today's pattern is the Command, which allows the requester of a
particular action to be decoupled from the object that performs the
action. Where the...
3 replies - 39922 views - 04/02/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights. The...
0 replies - 14583 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Many companies are still not comfortable with using a software solution unless they are paying for it. However, tech companies that use mainly Open Source...
0 replies - 14722 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

EclipseCon 2010 is over and as always has been a great chance to meet up with fellow committers and users of the software we build. Xtext
has received a...
0 replies - 4450 views - 04/01/10 by Peter Friese in Articles

Java has a lot of boilerplate code, although each new version tries
to remove a bit more every time. One area particularly affected is when
you have to...
6 replies - 10100 views - 03/31/10 by Byron M in Articles

After we explained how we can implement a JAX-WS web service
(endpoint, client) in the JAX-WS Five Minute Tutorial,
we will continue by explaining how we...
12 replies - 34675 views - 03/30/10 by Mohammad Juma in Articles

Today's pattern is the Chain of Responsibility, a simple way to
decouple the handling of requests. Chain of Responsibility in
the Real World The idea of...
7 replies - 28252 views - 03/30/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

I have written up a checklist to use for unit-level Test-Driven Development,
to make sure I do not skip steps while writing code, at a very low
level of the...
3 replies - 6647 views - 03/30/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

When we went from procedural programming to object-oriented
programming, by realizing that we could remove the "object pointer" as
the first...
2 replies - 4833 views - 03/30/10 by Rickard Oberg in Articles

This tutorial is for people who want to run a JAX-WS example (Endpoint + Client) in just five minutes.What you need to run this example:JDK 1.6Eclipse .Be...
30 replies - 167568 views - 03/29/10 by Mohammad Juma in Articles

With a provocation this big, I hope I’ve caught your attention. So,
let’s draw some lines: the objective is, of course, not to let others
do you work. It...
0 replies - 3855 views - 03/29/10 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

I am reading this question on stack overflow
and it was irritating for me that the most people say: reversing a
linked list is possible only in O(n). Okay,...
5 replies - 4671 views - 03/28/10 by Peter ___ in Articles