Welcome to the disco era...wait, wrong Groovy. Groovy the programming language is dynamic programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. At a first glance it looks a lot like Ruby, but it's built from the ground up to leverage the JVM. This offers a lot of power as ...

With great fanfare, Java 6 was released to the world. Ok, that was a joke. Sun has the ability to make a major release without any fanfare or hullabaloo. Even Spring had a countdown to their 2.0 release. Oh well. Java 5 was the really big release and added a lot ...

I've recently been doing some performance testing and tuning on an application. It makes use of Hibernate for the data access and ORM and Spring to configure and wire together everything. As I was looking at all of the configuration and came upon the fact that we were using the ...

Ok, so I might not exactly be on the cutting edge with this post, but I just started playing with jMock, a framework for creating Mock objects. Mock objects are used to isolate various layers of an application by providing a fake implementation that will mimic the behavior of the real ...

The Hibernate ORM tool give you the ability to write SQL-esque queries using HQL to do custom joining, filtering, etc. to pull Objects from your database. The documentation gives you a lot of examples of the things you can do, but I haven't seen any caveats or warnings. Database Performance As far ...

How far is going to far when you are doing build automation? My answer to that question, is that it's basically not possible to go to far. Any task that you need to do more than three times deserves automation. Three times is my heuristic. The longer and more complex ...

I had a chance to install and play with JetBrain's new Team City beta today. Team City at its most basic is a Continuous Integration server. Continuous Integration (CI) systems are used to help manage a team's software development process. Every time a developer checks in code, the CI server ...

In a previous post I lamented about Tapestry and Hibernate fighting each other. This was very soon after I had started using Tapestry for the first time, and I wanted to talk a little bit more about it now that I've been using it for a while. So now I ...

I've been away from doing much Java development recently. I've been getting paid to do .NET development and have been doing Ruby in my free time. So, I've been looking forward to get back to some Java programming (which was the first language I ever got paid to develop). ...

Martin Fowler once said “First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don’t distribute your objects!” This somewhat tongue-in-cheek comment captures the understanding that distributed design is more technically complex than non-distributed designs. Given two solutions that both fulfill a system’s design requirements, I strongly encourage you to pick the least complex. ...