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Good Java API site

A pretty decent site with JAVA APIs and sourcecode can be found here. Good thing to have when you don’t have the source mapped in your IDE, and it also gives you some pretty decent code navigation tools too.

Via the JavaBIN forums.

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Fitnesse experience

Looking into Fitnesse. There’s some good advice on usage here.

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Computers don’t do big picture

Dean Wampler explains here.

I have no faith in using tools for drawing and generating code. It sounds nice, I just don’t think it’s a good solution for most systems. A friend of mine has been working with MDA for a while, and he claims it works ok for boilerplate basic webapplications with a few forms etc. It might save you some time on these, but I’m still convinced that sooner or later you have to get into the code and then you have a maintenance nightmare on your hands.