I have a strong aversion to custom build steps and generation of code. I do have to do it sometimes, but I don’t like it. 😉 If I generate a WAR for my application I should not need to generate a new one for each environment I need to deploy it in. Joris Kuipers has a good presentation here on how to achieve this in Spring. I have used some of the same mechanisms, but this takes it to a new level. Check link to the code in the comments beneath.
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More typing
Gavin King has read the post I pointed to in Extraordinarily typesafe and points out how new features in the Java world are giving us a lot of new possibilities in a type safe way.
I am slowly coming to my senses seeing how much benefit newer features like generics, static imports and annotations are bringing to the game. I used to think that these features were nice to have, but didn’t revolutionize the way we develop our applications. After seeing how Jmock2, Guice, Quaré and others use new features to change the way we code I am beginning to see the light.
I didn’t use to think the Spring xml files were that bad either, but now I really need to look into the Spring Java config API.
Who knows, I might even look into Ruby one of these days. (I would probably miss my type saftety though) 😉
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Experiences for distributed teams
Mar Levison has some experiences and links to tools here.