Dazed & Confused

Bruce Tate loves the Spring Framework. I’m a big fan too, and in a couple of weeks time are attending a days seminar with Matt Raible. He’ll be running us through Spring MVC, which is the part of Spring I have least experience with. Really looking forward to it.

So I’ve installed the Google Webaccelerator. I read email at Gmail, search at Google and pipe all my websurfing through Google Webaccelerator. I just hope they still repeat “don’t be evil”, cause if they want to they could make a pretty personal profile of who I am.
Smart trick by the way to show [...]

I didn’t see this article before today. That’s really impressive results, but as they point out GUI development is the hardest part in Java. We spend way too much time tweaking GUI stuff compared to business/application logic.
Another weakness is the learning curve of the J2EE frameworks. The 4GL has a much lower learning curve [...]

This is exactly what I’m trying to fully understand at work. I’ll have to read up on the entire series at work tomorrow.

And just after my post on if SOA does exist I see this article on the benefits of SOA.

The company hasn’t calculated potential cost savings from the shift to an SOA-based application development model. But Poulter noted that using Web services to integrate applications over the past two years has been 60% to 70% cheaper [...]

Clemens Vasters has a post where he questions the existence of SOA.
What’s different now is that it is easier, cheaper and likely more productive to create bridges between systems.
He confirms my suspicions. The tools makes it easier, but it’s just not a completely new architecture paradigm. And you bridge systems only when you need it, [...]

Trond Andersen has a post on Integration Severs here. He’s not sure if the way they work is a good or bad thing, and I’m not sure either. I like to stay in OO land as much as possible.
I’m not really sure when an Integration Server would be a good solution. It seems to me [...]

Matt Raible has a post about his experience with Ajax using DWR and Spring here. The demo video looks really slick, and it seems he has mostly good experiences with this. As always I’m concerned with the cross browser and maintainability stuff, but I havn’t really looked into how to handle this. I might look [...]