October 2004

An Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming with the Spring Framework, Part 1

October 27, 2004

An Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming with the Spring Framework, Part 1 by Russell Miles — The Spring framework, which supports development of the different facets of J2EE, provides an aspect-oriented programming module that gives Spring developers the opportunity to apply aspects to their applications. This article shows you how to work with AOP in Spring.

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Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming with the Spring Framework, Part 2

October 21, 2004

An Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming with the Spring Framework, Part 2 by Russell Miles — Russ Miles continues his introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) in Spring by delving into the around advice, which allows you to not just add to an existing method implementation, but to completely replace it.

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Using Timers in J2EE Applications

October 14, 2004

Using Timers in J2EE Applications by Debu Panda — J2SE gained support for scheduled tasks in 1.3, and J2EE 1.4 provides an enterprise equivalent, with transactional, scheduled callbacks provided by application containers. Debu Panda introduces J2EE timers by way of an EJB that gets scheduled services.

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The myth and truth of computer book publishing

October 12, 2004

The myth and truth of computer book publishing – Great writeup on Javaworld @ http://www.javaworld.com/weblogs/wireless/archives/000312.html

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Spring 1.1.1 and iBATIS 2.0.7

October 11, 2004

Another RTFM moment – I was working on retrofitting an old application that used my own persistence framework to use iBATIS SQL Maps with the Spring DAO framework and running into a bizarre error. I kept getting the error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ibatis/db/sqlmap/XmlSqlMapBuilder and it turned out that my DAO implementations were extending SqlMapFactoryBean instead of SqlMapClientFactoryBean. [...]

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[OT] Programming in C

October 8, 2004

Programming in C (3rd Edition) by Stephen KochanPaperback: 576 pagesPublisher: Sams; 3 edition (July 8, 2004)ISBN: 0672326663 I know this is a little off-topic here but I had to put a plug in for the 3rd edition of the Programming in C book by Stephen Kochan. I am a huge fan of Steve’s writings and [...]

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Build scripts with Groovy and Ant

October 5, 2004

In nearly all developers’ toolboxes, Ant is the standard build tool for Java applications, thanks to its open, standard, and multiplatform structure. Though it represents a great improvement in automating production of complex J2EE applications, the choice of using XML syntax to express build automation has shown some limitations and drawbacks. In this article, Filippo [...]

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Get Groovy

October 3, 2004

Groovy, Java’s New Scripting Language by Ian F. Darwin — When some Java developers hear about Groovy, their first reaction is often, “Oh, no, not another scripting language for Java.” Ian Darwin had the same reaction, until he took a good look at Groovy. Ian is the author of Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition.

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