September 1, 2008
Generation 5 » Stop Catching Exceptions! – A strategy that (i) uses finally as the first resort for containing corrupting and maintaining invariants, (ii) uses catch locally when the exceptions thrown in an area are completely understood, and (iii) surrounds independent units of work with try-catch blocks is an effective basis for using exceptions Reverse-engineer [...]
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July 1, 2008
Sun Bundles MySQL Database, GlassFish App Server — Sun Microsystems — InformationWeek – In one of the first results of its $1 billion purchase of MySQL, Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has packaged the popular open source database with its GlassFish application server and is offering the two as a $65,000-per-year bundle. InfoQ: Mark Little on [...]
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