Dazed & Confused

So I’m up and running on 1.5. Upgrade was a breeze as always. Theme tweaked for now. I’m fairly satisfied.
Lets get back to blogging.

So it’s here. I’ll be upgrading and theming tonight I guess. Download here.

Many people get a first impression of Spring as something that replaces EJBs, and can only be used if you don’t use it. Luckily that is not the case. In the few events where you actually have to use EJBs (manager forces you or you actually for once need the distribution/remoting) Spring contains helper [...]

IBM has two good articles on annotations in Java 5.0.

Part 1
Part 2

IBM AlphaWorks has posted an preview of the Web Tools for Eclipse here. It says the final version will be out July 2005. I’m not really sure how old this preview is, but the date on the article says 10th of February. I’ll have to check it out one day.

“One must give up control to get control”
Some wise words here.

Surrogate is an open source project for mocking dependencies in unit tests. It enables you to unit test existing code, without modification even though it is not based on dependency injection. It does this through AspectJ weaving where it intercepts calls to objects that needs to be mocked. Take a look at it, it [...]

Jetbrains is handing out licences to IntelliJ IDEA to open sourc projects. The requrements are quite fuzzy though, and I bet many sourceforge projects with 2-3 developers will have trouble passing. Or maybe they are just nice guys. Read here.

Oh, yeah. I’m now a Sun Certified Programmer.
I can understand why some people complain about the certification, it really is a bunch of things you don’t use much in your daily work. But it is also details that any Java programmer should really know about the language. I found the parts about string [...]

Keith Donald explains Spring without the buzzwords here.