Javalobby | The heart of the Java developer community

Kirk Knoernschild04/21/09
5934 views
1 replies

So Now You're an Agilist...What's Next

In this presentation, Jurgen Appelo talks about agility and the 12 laws of software development. Among other topics, he talks about motivation,...

James Sugrue04/21/09
172305 views
3 replies

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. DZone has assembled a collection of news coverage and 'Tweets' from around...

Piergiorgio Lucidi04/21/09
13225 views
0 replies

JBoss Portal Server Development Book Review

In the first chapter, JBoss Portal Server Development provides a good overview about all portal types (B2B,B2C,B2E), and then continues to introduce all the components needed to understand all...

Grzegorz Borkowski04/21/09
29099 views
36 replies

The Death of XSLT in Web Frameworks

Several years ago there was a trend in Java web frameworks to use XML processing as a foundation for the framework logic: take the data from database and present it as XML document (either convert it from relational data, or use XML capable database), and...

Suresh Krishna04/21/09
12998 views
11 replies

Oracle + Java = Harmony

Everyone in Silicon Valley is talking about it. Some are more excited than others. However, this is not a shock or surprise to anyone. Sooner or the later this has to happen. Oracle has been a very strong player in middle-ware with its acquisition marathon,...

James Sugrue04/20/09
177056 views
23 replies

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something that Oracle have huge interest in, and will probably help nudge this along. Two things that I would...

James Sugrue04/20/09
21444 views
46 replies

Oracle Buys Sun

After weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. The deal is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt, with Oracle buying Sun at $9.50 per...

Jakob Jenkov04/20/09
7032 views
2 replies

Introducing Butterfly DI Container

Being about 3 years old and reasonably matured, I thougt I'd take the liberty to introduce Butterfly DI Container to the JavaLobby community. Butterfly DI Container is a dependency injection container like Spring, Pico and Guice. For those of you unfamiliar...

Dan Dyer04/20/09
10342 views
15 replies

The Java Language Features that Nobody Uses

I read Anthony Goubard’s “Top 10 Unused Java Features” on JavaLobby earlier today. I agree with some of his selections but I think he missed out a few key features that nobody uses. Restricting myself to just language features (the API is too huge),...

Felipe Gaúcho04/20/09
10341 views
3 replies

A Generic CRUD Facade For Your @Entity Beans

CRUD (create-read-update-delete) is a repetitive code in Java EE projects but it can be isolated in a unique class through the usage of JPA annotations and Generics - a class I call CRUDEntityFacade. This is not a new pattern and the goal of this blog entry...

Mike Milinkovich04/17/09
4540 views
3 replies

One Small Step Towards Reducing License Proliferation

License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years.

Jurgen Appelo04/17/09
4813 views
0 replies

The Big Agile Practices Survey

There are several agile surveys, most notably those of VersionOne and Scott Ambler.However, while those surveys are very useful, neither of them has given me an answer to some very important questions.Questions that I care deeply about...

Dmitriy Setrakyan04/17/09
10469 views
8 replies

Google App Engine - Where Does It Fit?

This is yet another blog about Google App Engine (GAE) recent release of Java. Naturally, as an interested party, I rushed immediately to deploy my sample GridGain app on it, but immediately realized that you cannot deploy any sort of clustering or grid...

Anthony Goubard04/17/09
26647 views
28 replies

The Top 10 Unused Features in Java

10) const, goto What? Yes, they are Java keywords. But they do nothing. 9) Some Java flavors Such as Personal Java, JavaOS.

Misko Hevery04/16/09
5308 views
4 replies

Managing Object Lifetimes

There is a myth out there that creating objects is expensive. The result of this is that a lot of applications have objects whose lifetime is too long. Let’s take a web app for example. Most web-apps I have seen have too many long lived objects and not...