Paul Hammant : Inversionism

Paul Hammant's musings on Java, Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection etc

Sweb 3.0 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Every one else seems to be chucking their opinion into the Web 3.0 debate, so I think I will too.
http://paulhammant.com/blog/sweb-3.0.html

Crazy Bob and type safety for Dependency Injection - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I bumped into Bob Lee at Greg Stein's birthday party in San Francisco last night. Tis always a pleasure. Despite the drinkmusiccompany we got into a debate about Guice and its love of type-safety. Congrats on the Jolt award win by the way Bob and Kevin.My proposal was that, in addition to the binding-annotations magic of Guice they could soften a little and learn to live with parameter names as another way to disambiguate. Developers using Guice (or PicoContainerothers) sould be able to...
http://paulhammant.com/blog/crazy-bob-and-type-safety-for-dependency-injection.html

What brought me to Inversion of Control in the first place.. - (Found July 2, 2008 )

..was that it made for very nice decomposed, yet very declarative applications. A year after getting involved with Inversion of Control (IoC), I found myself as Head of Development of a dot-com in London and hired Joe Walnes as one of the engineers. Amongst many things that I found hard to convince the developers the need for, was IoC.
http://paulhammant.com/blog/what-brought-me-to-inversion-of-control-in-the-first-place.htm...

Announcing Paranamer: an open source answer to the dropping of parameter name access from Java6 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Java 6 has shipped of course. Without a feature that the committee overseeing it thought would be good: Parameter name access. The committee had a design that there was consensus for, but Sun suggested there was no more time to finish it a few months before shipping. Sun, themselves, were against the availability of parameter names in the way that other members of the committee had settled on. Instead they wanted some annotation above the methods that one wanted to have parameter...
http://paulhammant.com/blog/announcing_paranamer.html

Simple Wars - Agile anti-pattern - (Found July 2, 2008 )

A short description of the Agile anti-pattern of "Simple Wars".
http://paulhammant.com/blog/Simple_Wars.html

Using XStream to forward JSON to a browser - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Though it may be nice to consider XStream as a tool for compatibility with .Net, XML is not the lingua-franca of web pages. JavaScript is, and it has a defacto standard for 'object passing' in JSON. With a proposed new XStream 'writer', arbitrary Java objects can be transformed into JSON for sending to web pages to play their part in JavaScript enhanced web applications.
http://paulhammant.com/blog/xstream-json.html

Derby's arrival in Java 6 surprises me too (and I'm a Java 6 committee member) - (Found July 2, 2008 )

If I'd have been asked to vote, I'd have voted against it. It has increased the JDK size and there was nothing about Derby that made it hard to work with after a downloadinstall. Things in the JDK have a duty to have fairly stable APIs. Is that true for Derby, or given the nature of JDBC is its jar not subject to stability I cast my mind back to Xerces' original inclusion in the JDK. The SAX api provided a similar boundary to developers. How did that work out I think the frustrations..
http://paulhammant.com/blog/derby-db-in-java6.html

Un-Agile Things - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Some ranting on Unified Process (UP) being painted as an Agile methodology.
http://paulhammant.com/blog/un-agile-things.html

Short Social OSCON Notes - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Some notes not so much on the technology presented at OSCON, but on some social message speakers
http://paulhammant.com/blog/short-social-oscon-notes.html

At least one unilateral improvement to Java - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Intro: RubyRails etc etc are pummeling Java presently. At least, the ranks of Java's intelligentsia are hemorrhaging to a RubyRails world and not coming back according to their current plan. From James Duncan Davidson some years ago & swathes of other Apache people since, to every-loves-to-hate-him-online-but-he's-great-fun-really Obie Fernandez. Let us not forget Dave Thomas or Bruce Tate (both ticked at Greg Luck's blog post) dissing the hype surrounding RubyRails. We are currently...
http://paulhammant.com/blog/at-least-one-unilateral-improvement-to-java.html