Reality-Loop

  • February 11, 2009

    Leaky Seam

    Speed up your Data-Driven JSF/Seam Application by Two Orders of Magnitude is a very interesting article about improving performance in a web application. It is a perfect example for the fact that powerful technologies layered on top of existin...

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  • February 09, 2009

    The state of developer testing

    We're still figuring this stuff out. All of us. -Jay Fields Each semester I am giving a workshop about testing Java EE applications at the SWS. This is almost exclusively about automated developer testing. The sad thing is, that reality as...

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  • February 05, 2009

    DSLs - Are people loosing their faith?

    Some month ago I was skeptical about lightheartedly jumping into DSL-creation, and I was wondering if I had lost my faith. It seems now that I am not the only one and the DSL movement is getting its share of scepticism: Rocky Lothka (founder...

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  • February 02, 2009

    Help needed: Mapping a bidirectional list with Hibernate

    I don't understand the behavior of Hibernate when mapping a bidirectional list. The SQL statements that Hibernate produces seem not optimal to me. Can somebody enlighten me? The scenario is the following: I have a one-to-many parent-child relati...

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  • January 29, 2009

    Maven woes

    Maven just doesn't seem to be everybody's friend. I for myself cannot say that I have really grasped it yet. Recently I tend to come quite frequently across projects that have maven related problems. There are also more and more and more signs...

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