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Greetings...
Winter has just started in the northern hemisphere, as if you
could miss it. Editor-in-chief Daniel Steinberg instant-messaged
me this morning to complain that it was 15 degrees Farenheit
(-9.4 C) in Cleveland, but 700 miles south, here in Atlanta,
it's only 18 F (-7.8 C). So, unless you're on the warm side
of the globe, bundle up and enjoy this week's edition of ONJava.
Another thing that comes with the onset of winter is the
typical "yearender" article that takes a look back at the year
just passed. For 2004, we're doing two ONJava yearenders: in
this week's ONJava 2004 in Review: Popular Articles, we take a
look back at some of the most popular articles posted on the
site this year. If you missed them the first time, you'll want
to be sure you catch these articles on Hibernate, Tomcat, web
applications, Quartz, and Eclipse.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/12/22/2004-yearender-1.html
Ashwin Jayaprakash knows he's sticking his neck out to call
his article Towards Bug Free Code. But he's got some good
practices to back it up--J2SE 5.0-based tricks for achieving
code that is more loosely coupled and thus more readily testible.
"If we make good use of some of the basic idioms and thumb-rules
of design and programming, we can take a step closer towards
software with a lot less bugs."
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/12/22/towardsbugfree.html
Tim O'Brien says, "If you are not familiar with the Jakarta
Commons, you have likely reinvented a few wheels. Before you
write any more generic frameworks or utilities, grok the Commons.
It will save you serious time." In his article The Hidden Gems
of Jakarta Commons, Part 1, he exposes some interesting and
little-noticed helpers in the commons, including more efficient
means of parsing XML files with Digester, functors (like
predicates, closures, and transformers) in the commons collections,
and using XPath to query objects and collections.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/12/22/jakarta-gems-1.html
In our feature article from java.net, Olexiy Prohorenko looks
at Testing Your Enterprise JavaBeans with Cactus. Because EJB's
make assumptions about the kind of container environment they
run in, they're not particularly well-suited to being tested
with JUnit. "Cactus lets us create pretty much typical JUnit
tests, and allows us to run them in the container, so it allows
us to test server-side components. Generally speaking, it's
just a framework that makes JUnit usable in this situation."
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/12/09/testejb.html
Please join us again next week.
Chris Adamson, editor
ONJava.com
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