Posts Tagged 'J2EE'

Web Killer Apps on the Horizon – Flex Becomes Mainstream

Today I was surprised by Loveley Charts, a new application based on Flex that can replace Visio in the near future. Last weekend I already read about Buzzword, a Word replacement, and SlideRocket, a Powerpoint replacement. So, there’s only an Excel replacement missing ;-) .

Yes, the AJAX guys already deliver a lot of replacements to get your office online. But, tweaks in usage are still a point of discussion.

AJAX is limited to ...

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Why you should prefer JSF over Spring-MVC?

Although, I’m a fan of the Spring Framework it’s not in any case the best you can get. Meanwhile, there’s a lot of stuff in it. But, limited resources and parallel developments in the community, to improve certain aspects of the Java/JEE platform, led to parts in Spring that should be skipped or further developed before used.

One of these aspects in Spring is Spring-MVC. From the historical point of view it helps to get rid of cumbersome JSP coding, like ...

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How to Decontaminate a Singleton

For about three years now there’s a debate about using the Singleton pattern. Some call it evil, anti-pattern, and the like. If you have a look at the Gang of Four (GoF) patterns you’ve to realize that they are still present in the community, even more than 10 years after first publishing of the book. Patterns are commodity and the grandmasters can’t be wrong with their invention, you may think.

It’s not easy to kill a pattern like the ...

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Successful Software Architects Ignore Standards

Do you really think this is correct? If so, you’re prepared to start next generation software development ;-) .

When I started my career as consultant and software architect in the mid nineties everything we missed was widely accepted standards to create something stable in the architecture layers. Layers! Not the components that were part of the layers. Heterogeneity meant to develop interfaces between every two products communicating with each other. Then we got CORBA.

CORBA was the ...

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