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Repel the Jedi Mind Trick by Turning to Enterprise Open Source Solutions

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:00 EDT

The Jedi mind trick is a Force power that can influence the actions of weak-minded sentient beings. Vendors will often try to apply the Jedi mind trick in selling silver-bullet software solutions that solve global warming and stop celebrity feuding while enabling service-based architecture development. Let's quickly put on our aluminum foil caps and repel the Jedi mind trick by turning to open source solutions. Service-based architectures are being touted as the next step in reaching programming nirvana. With these marching orders it's often difficult to build a framework that allows for simple service creation.

Constructing Services with SOA & Open Source Java

Wed, 09 May 2007 20:30:00 EDT

Java J2EE Hibernate Extreme Makeover: Architecture Edition

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:45:00 EDT

In the past few years there has been a proliferation of frameworks that allow for lighter, faster, and loosely coupled Java projects. These frameworks not only let you decouple your Java project from the application server for unit testing, they also allow for more agile refactoring, testing, and design techniques. This article will focus on telling the story of a large-scale refactoring effort implementing Spring and Hibernate as the underlying infrastructure tools. For those living under an abacus Spring is a J2EE framework built to handle many of the plumbing issues on a typical J2EE application. Hibernate is a popular Open Source Java object/relational persistence framework.

Taking Continuous Integration to the Next Level

Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 EST

Sometimes, the easiest and most rewarding part of development is the actual coding. Managers and developers often dismiss the building, deploying, testing, and metrics-gathering aspects of the software life cycle.