Once upon a time Java created an experiment
called checked-exceptions, you know you have to declare exceptions or
catch them. Since that time no other language...
45 replies - 6479 views - 09/17/09 by mhevery in Articles
I recently wrote about eliminating architecture, and there were a few comments, especially by folks on JavaLobby,
who thought I had my head in the clouds. Too...
6 replies - 2084 views - 09/17/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this
exclusive chapter from 'Modular Java' (by Craig Walls). This excerpt was extracted from Modular...
11 replies - 3706 views - 09/15/09 by lyndsey in Articles
Very frequently I come across posts of the form Language X for Language
Y programmers. It's not that there is anything wrong with them, but,
more often than...
1 replies - 1480 views - 09/14/09 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles
For our new StreamFlow project I wanted to try and get management
functions in properly right from the start, which basically means
exposing configuration,...
3 replies - 1365 views - 09/14/09 by Rickard Oberg in Articles
Fuctional programming has existed for decades, but only in the last few years has it gained the attention it deserves, for a lot of very good reasons like:
32 replies - 4967 views - 09/14/09 by mario.fusco in Articles
Recently DZone released the Selenium Refcard, written by Frank Cohen. Selenium seems like a vital tool for test driven development of web applications.
0 replies - 1749 views - 09/11/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
I recently felt the need to write
a piece of code that resolves ANT-style variables in a string. Suppose
you have a property file similar to this...
3 replies - 2295 views - 09/11/09 by Peter Friese in Articles
def Initial Development Time:
In software development projects, initial development time (IDT) is the
length of time it takes from the project's first line of...
1 replies - 1766 views - 09/11/09 by Jay Fields in Articles
We have finished one big OSGi project with many tools : JPA, GPRS, SMS,
FTP, JNA, SPRING, Jetty, ext.js .... after about one year with heterogeneous
team. Now,...
2 replies - 2210 views - 09/10/09 by slim.ouertani in Articles
This evening, I attended the Denver JUG where Venkat Subramaniam was speaking about Scala. Unfortunately, I arrived halfway through his Programming Scala
talk...
10 replies - 2359 views - 09/10/09 by Matt Raible in Articles
Here is another angle on Java under the hood: "Temporary" files. Yes, Java and JavaFX create a bunch of temporary files (some of them being more...
2 replies - 2988 views - 09/04/09 by Anthony Goubard in Articles
The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's
planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing
"serious...
7 replies - 1911 views - 09/03/09 by CodeJustin in News
Recently, I posted an entry introducing 19 patterns for modularity. The first of these patterns was ManageRelationships. ManageRelationships is a simple...
0 replies - 1928 views - 09/03/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
The Java Language changes accepted for inclusion in JDK7 have been announced by Joseph Darcy. We already knew that closures were off the menu.
16 replies - 7705 views - 08/31/09 by Dan Dyer in Articles
