Java Programming

Developing Rich Web Service APIs with Java

Updated: 2010-03-19 06:39:29

This afternoon, I attended Ryan Heaton's talk on Developing Rich Web Service APIs with Java. I've always admired Ryan's work and what he's done with Enunciate. Below are my notes from his talk. We've come a long way from the WS (SOAP) <-> EJB days. There are many tools that you can use to develop web services today. James Sugrue

How improved hardware changed programming

Updated: 2010-03-18 11:30:50

This is a follow-up to the previous post, CPUs speed and technology innovations. As we have outlined in the previous post, the memory size and computing power available to the average programmer has increased thousands of times from the first years of his art, at least in the boundaries of a single machine (network is a common bottleneck.) References Reference: ...

Effectively Handling Exceptions in Testing Using MagicTest

Updated: 2010-03-18 07:33:09

Unfortunately handling exceptions thrown by methods under test has always been cumbersome. There has been some relief in the last few months, as both JUnit and TestNG made an effort to improve the handling of error conditions: JUnit 4.7 added rules with ExpectedException as one implementation TestNG 5.10 added the attribute expectedExceptionsMessageRegExp to the @Test annotation ...

Create Your Own bit.ly Using Base58

Updated: 2010-03-18 07:27:06

Following the example of bit.ly, tinyurl, owl.ly, even coca-cola has joined the short URL bandwagon. Maybe it's because of Twitter, maybe the world is focusing on mobile devices or just saving bandwidth. In any case, it's not that hard to develop your own. James Sugrue

What's Happening in the Java World?

Updated: 2010-03-18 07:20:31

This morning at TheServerSide Java Symposium I attended James Gosling's keynote. Below are my notes from his talk. The unifying principle for Java is the Network - it ties everything together. Enterprise, Desktop, Web, Mobile, HPC, Media and Embedded. The most important thing in the Java world is the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. James is showing a slide of Duke in a fish tank with...

Daily Dose - Gosling Has Faith in Oracle, Not the JCP

Updated: 2010-03-18 04:00:53

In his first public address since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Java creator James Gosling assured developers that Java was in good hands with Oracle. Gosling, however, did not have nice things to say about the Java Community Process. "It's just gotten complicated," Gosling said when speaking about his decision not to join. Many members of the Java community have a similar opinion...