Paul Hammant : InversionismPaul Hammant's musings on Java, Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection etcSelenium- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Selenium: kick ass web testing for free. In the fall of last year, Jason Huggins showed me "JavaScript Functional ...http://paulhammant.com/blog/selenium.html Very Simple Java interop with .Net over the wire without Web Services.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Ian Cartwright and I have written a paper after some experimentation with trying to make various .Net and Java containers and web servers communicate over the wire to each other using Web Services and auto-generated WSDL. We concluded that is not easy as many of the industrial strength J2EE servers or Web Services toolkits had a different view to the similar products in the Microsoft stack as to how to interpret and bind to a WSDL doc programatically. Anyway, we soon dumped Web Services and...http://paulhammant.com/blog/simple-java-and-dotnet-interop-paper.html My 'Agile India' presentation on Dependency Injection vs Big Up-Front Architecture- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I spoke at "Agile India" a couple of days ago. The major presentation I did was an opinion piece on Dependency Injection (alongside Agile practices) versus Big Up-Front Architecture (BUFA). It ran for an hour including questions.http://paulhammant.com/blog/dependency-injection-vs-BUFA.html Using XStream to process standardized XML types like RSS- (Found July 2, 2008 ) How to use the excellent XStream to encodedecode RSSother documents. Useful if you want to easily process RSS feeds in Java without ugly schemas or heavyweight tool-kitshttp://paulhammant.com/blog/xstream-rss.html Waffle - Java web action framework with smallest lines of code count for action methods- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Waffle - a great technology for developing Java web applications...http://paulhammant.com/blog/Waffle-Java_web_action_framework_with_smallest_lines_of_code_c... C for Java- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Apart from being able to rejuvenate older code-lines, it might be nice to learn where the JVM and the Java Language Spec (JLS) falls short in respect of being able to host C code. Two technologies promising to make C runnable on a JVM....http://paulhammant.com/blog/C-for-Java.html Branch by Abstraction on the trunk negates the need for multi-branch development- (Found July 2, 2008 ) A I've been pushing for a number of years is Branch by Abstraction. The suggestion is that you can convene large sets of developers in a single trunk and get then to continue to commit to a single place without having to spawn "short lived feature branches" when some large change could mean that the build is going to be hosed for a number of weeks while the team gets it right. Those branches just end up running and running....http://paulhammant.com/blog/branch_by_abstraction.html JavaFX Mobile is just SavaJE acquired by Sun- (Found July 2, 2008 ) JavaFX Mobile is just SavaJE recently acquired by Sun, bundled with Java FX and given a new marketing impetus. Read on for application types and some Dependency Injection thoughts about what this stuff should be.http://paulhammant.com/blog/JavaFX_Mobile_is_just_SavaJE_acquired_by_Sun.html PicoContainer 2.0 beta released- (Found July 2, 2008 ) We have been working on this for a while, and it is now in Maven2 repositories and ready for use. Lots of new features including the leveraging of parameter names for configuration and component disambiguation.http://paulhammant.com/blog/picocontainer-2.0-beta.html Injecting into Servlets and undoing the stranglehold of web.xml- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Dependency Injection is that magic thing that aids design and testability. Unfortunately Servlets have never been injectable components. Well not according to Sun anyway. Many years ago we saw to it that the excellent Jetty could handle Servlets with constructors specifying their argument requirements. Time has come to talk about it and the required death of web.xml.http://paulhammant.com/blog/injecting-into-servlets.html |