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Cedric Beust01/17/11
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Parallel Framework Shootout

The JVM concurrent (or parallel, I’m using these terms interchangeably although I’m aware they have subtly different meanings) worlds has been exploding with activity and innovations lately. It all started with the now veteran but extremely well...

Andy Gibson01/17/11
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Make a Flexible Architecture Now, Perfect it Later

Your Architecture Sucks and I Don’t Care ignited a bit of a flame war as such topics usually do. On one hand I can see the benefits of good architecture, but on the other, this must be weighed against the real goal of software which is to either...

Nicolas Frankel01/17/11
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Playing with Spring Roo and Vaadin

One year ago, under the gentle pressure of a colleague, I tried Spring Roo. I had mixed feelings about the experience: while wanting to increase productivity was of course a good idea, I had concerned regarding Roo’s intrusiveness. I left it at that, and...

Ted Theodoropoulos01/17/11
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Technical Debt - Part 5: Governance

Corporate governance programs have taken on a much more significant focus since the latest wave of high profile corporate failures.

Andy Gibson01/16/11
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Can Arquillian Boost Java EE Container Quality?

Arquillian, JBoss’ foray into providing in-container testing for Java EE projects, could be used to give Java EE container developers the ability to test their containers using a set of tests based on expected Java EE behavior. Such tests will enable...

Ted Theodoropoulos01/16/11
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Technical Debt - Part 4: Remediation

In the first three parts of this series we discussed topics related to

Ted Theodoropoulos01/15/11
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Technical Debt - Part 3: Quantifying

There are two key components to the technical debt equation: principal and interest. Quantifying both the principal owed and the interest payments being made are critical. Without a complete picture of the cost of the debt, calculating the return on...

Gordon Dickens01/14/11
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JUnit & Spring – What You Don’t Know

When using JUnit in Spring there are several features added that many developers are not aware of. First, if you are including the Spring Context in your tests, it becomes an Integration Test, no longer a Unit Test.1. Default Searching of Context File(s) To...

Adam Warski01/14/11
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Dependency Injection in Scala: Extending the Cake Pattern

Continuing the mini-series on Dependency Injection (see my previous blogs: problems with DI, assisted inject for CDI and improving assisted inject), I took a look at how DI is handled in Scala.

Ted Theodoropoulos01/14/11
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Technical Debt - Part 2: Identification

We discussed the process of defining technical debt in a

Frank Kelly01/14/11
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Migrating from JBoss 4 to JBoss 5

I have been using JBoss 4.2.3 for over a year right now and really like it (although the clustering / JMS stuff seems WAY overcomplicated - and needing 80 config files - not fun!). But anyway it is time to upgrade to JBoss 5 and the path has been marred by...

Yonik Seeley01/13/11
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Indexing JSON in Solr 3.1

Solr has been able to produce JSON results for a long time, by adding wt=json to any query. A new capability has recently been added to allow indexing in JSON, as well as issuing other update commands such as deletes and commits. All of the functionality...

Robert Diana01/13/11
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Mobile Payments Could Fundamentally Change Small Business

In the past few days, mobile credit card payments have been making news. First, Intuit announced a free version of its mobile payments service called GoPayment. Next, we hear that Square raised a very nice funding round:

Martin Fowler01/13/11
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IntegrationContractTest

One of the most common cases of using a TestDouble is when you are communicating with an external service. Typically such services are being maintained by a different team, they may be subject to slow, and unreliable networks, and maybe unreliable ...