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Tapestry 5 web framework

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Lately I’ve been writing a Tapestry 5 based web application. I’ve used it before for a smaller application but this is the first time I’ve used it on a larger project. In a number of ways it is a very powerful framework to write web applications. The basics of Tapestry is that it is a [...]

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In those OTHER multiverses, Oracle already bought it for $500mil

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Strange IM conversation came my way the other night, whilst discussing some code a team I led wrote at a previous workplace, I think it highlights some crucial factors Oracle bring to the Enterprise Java World: anon 9:04PM [about that code] crazymcphee 9:05 PM well, it WAS perfect … CRAZY perfect anon 9:06 PM lol… [...]

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GUI builders, modern development practices, and vendor lock-in

Saturday, February 14, 2009

The Paranoid Engineer has declared ‘Screw All Gui Builders‘, with an excellent example of the genre of code that can be produced by one such tool, contrasted against the much nicer hand-written code. Now I can certainly sympathise with his pain. The thing that really gets my goat up, and the subject of this post, [...]

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‘Disappeared’ DAO layers

Friday, February 6, 2009

Adam Bien still wants to believe that a JPA layer can directly replace a formal ‘DAO layer’. And I still disagree. I might agree that for simple enough systems, it could end up being that in fact the service layers end up with PersistenceManager logic directly in their methods. But then I might say a [...]

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Is Java “architecture” irrelevant?

Friday, January 30, 2009

Simon Mittag says that Java Architecture is becoming irrelevant. I am now a contractor for a large government organisation and as part of my role there, I get to participate in these workshops. Trust me, a fruitless exercise. People bickering about their favourite frameworks, why to use Axis over Spring-WS, why everyone should use maven [...]

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JSR286 and vendor sales teams

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Eric Spiegelberg recently speculated that the new Java portal specification JSR286 was at the edge of irrelevance. And others agree. I think it’s worse than irrelevant – it’s a solution in search of a problem. I’ve worked on a successful (JSR168) portal implementation, just last year. I truly don’t see what the concept of ‘portal’ brings [...]

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Programmerless programming is just a mirage

Saturday, January 17, 2009

“Programmerless programming” is a fad that never dies. It’s a mirage that never fades but always recedes to just out of reach. Every few years a vendor, or a group of vendors comes out with some bright idea to allow some class of end-user, or business analyst, or what have you to build their own [...]

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