One feature that I've been waiting for a long time to see in Hudson
is project-level security. To be able to say that certain projects can
only be built by...
1 replies - 2311 views - 09/04/08 by John Ferguson Smart in News
Although JSR APIs are generally simple to use, they introduce a lot of difficulties when used from OSGi Environments. The main two problems they introduce are:
0 replies - 2099 views - 09/04/08 by vladrin in Articles
The Java NIO
(new/non-blocking I/O) API introduced in Java 1.4 is arguably the most
arcane part of the standard library. With channels, selectors,...
5 replies - 6077 views - 09/03/08 by Dan Dyer 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 - 3222 views - 09/03/08 by joern.zaefferer in Articles
I came across a language comparison (which I wish I could still find) where the author presented a code sample in many different languages. The example he...
18 replies - 3397 views - 09/03/08 by Derek Young in News
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 - 3759 views - 09/01/08 by mhevery 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....
4 replies - 7571 views - 09/01/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles
I've been scanning the early draft of OSGi R4.2, specifically RFC 124, "A Component Model for OSGi". I am delighted to see that the great work that...
1 replies - 2336 views - 08/29/08 by Craig Walls in News
Since I have gotten lots of love/hate mail on the Singletons are Pathological Liars and Where Have All the Singletons Gone I feel obliged to to do some root...
13 replies - 3338 views - 08/29/08 by mhevery in Articles
Here is a simple pattern which you can use to make your
APIs extensible, even by third parties, without sacrificing
your ability to keep...
0 replies - 6210 views - 08/29/08 by Tim Boudreau in News
One thing I really enjoy doing is reverse engineering technology solutions to learn from them. A case in point is Manfred Riem's set of JSF components, with...
0 replies - 2236 views - 08/29/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News
Why is it that developers from these two communities don't like to see eye to eye?
29 replies - 13366 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 - 3444 views - 08/27/08 by mhevery in Articles
Today Java is used widely across the internet but it is also an invisible force behind many of the applications and devises that power our day-to-day lives....
9 replies - 6476 views - 08/25/08 by kevincheung18 in Articles
There are a lot of dependency injection/IOC frameworks out there.
What you may not know is that there is a very simple yet useful
one built...
0 replies - 4713 views - 08/22/08 by Tim Boudreau in News
