I’m a hughe fan of Apache and their products. Their track reckord of releasing high quality products under a licence that businesses can live with is just excellent. This article talks about how the release of Geronimo will be an important contribution to the J2EE app server space. At the end the author also voices concerns about how Geronimo might also be a tool to circumvent the JCP. Lets not hope so.
Interview with TopLink personell here. If you don’t know TopLink it’s an Object/Relational mapping along the lines of Hibernate. We are using it on a daily basis now, and I’m quite impressed by how advanced it is. We are daily discovering new techniques and solving new persistence challenges.
Johannes Brodwall writes about waste as defined by Mary Poppendieck here.
I’ve always been a sceptic of the definition of modules that is delivered internally in an organisation. As Johannes wrote it requires significant coordination and overhead. But I have also seen this thought beeing applied to projects where one person is responsible for each module. In my experience this inspires apathy regarding other peoples module (you should fix it), and even when there’s only one person responsible for each modules working close together it requires coordination overhead. It is better to have everyone at least understand most aspects of the system (as far as possible). Of course collective code ownership isn’t without challenges either.