Dazed & Confused

More on J2EE testing. Something we are figuring out on our current project. I’ll read up on it tomorrow.

Alright, many might already know this, but it’s new to me so here goes.
I thought I had used most of the features of Struts, but I still find new features. Feature of the day: Synchronizer Token.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Synchronizer Token pattern, it ensures data can only be submitted once from a [...]

This is just too insane. Don’t they ever carry out any user-tests on these phones? Apparently the Siemens phones plays a shutdown tune when it turns off. Always. Period. This means that if you are in a call and the phone shuts off because of an empty battery you hearing might get damaged because of [...]

Excellent site with heaps of info on mobile phones. Seems much like a wiki with lots of cross references on terms and stuff.

Hibernate alpha-quality preview release is available for download.

Some slides from the JavaOne talk on Java IDEs. An ok and short comparison, but still leans a bit towards “what I feel” comparison. A feature matrix would be interesting.

Counts LOC etc. which I don’t find too interesting, but also analyses your code for dependencies, and finds circular dependencies. Looks good, check it out here.

Nokia has released its developer suite for J2ME with Eclipse support. Get it here.
Via ShareMe.

Oracle has an extensive article on in container testing here.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around JAAS authentication lately. I need the container to retrieve information from LDAP in a non-standard way, especially groups.
This library supports many ways of authenticating, including Windows domains. At first glanc I can’t see if it supports LDAP, but it might be a good example to understand [...]