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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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Oracle to buy Sun …

Monday, April 20, 2009

Yes, it’s true. Oracle and Sun have both announced the marriage. Techcrunch has the full press release. ZDnet some other commentary. A few people seem to be sweating about MySQL. It would not be stressing about MySQL too much. It could get spun off, who knows. It’s even possible, as some commenters on Techcrunch say, [...]

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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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Open source and profits

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Sun’s sales topped estimates, according to Bloomberg, and this was all thanks to its open source software strategy, according to Matt Asay at CNET: Sun Microsystems is getting some love from Wall Street after its sales and earnings topped estimates, as detailed by Bloomberg. Software sales jumped 21 percent year-over-year. What is fueling the growth? [...]

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