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Welcome to our blog about all kind of topics that are related to software development. We blog about:

SOA, BPM, EDA, ECM and all the other buzz words. Beware some post might not be so common as you think. We are not scared to go against main stream thoughts.

Technologies like java, maven, springframework, OSGi and front end technologies and frameworks like jQuery, DWR, Flex.

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The Great Dynamic Hope: another hum-drum hype waiting to happen

Over the past few years, dynamic programming languages that are based around an interpreter have gathered quite a lot of attention. They’ve made an impression with language constructs that are more high-level than those of older languages and they’ve served as vehicles for some new ideas in software development (and also for some “new” ideas, [...]

Letting go: yet another traditional problem in the SOA world

Over the past few days my thoughts have been drawn to what I think is a common problem (in addition to the ones identified by Freddie van Rijswijk in his recent blog) in establishing and participating in a SOA architecture: Won’t Let Go Syndrome (WLGS).

WLGS is a problem akin to the Not Invented Here [...]

A unit test by any other name…

Everybody is, at least to some extent, familiar with the following quote:

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title….

– Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene [...]

SOA and the domain: how new technology should not blind you to old wisdom

A couple of things happened to me over the past few days as I was taking on a new role within a new project that caused me to ponder a bit about the role of domains and domain driven development (DDD) within the drive towards service oriented architectures (SOA). The result of these ponderings was, [...]

Managing “session” data with ThreadLocal

Most commercial Java developers nowadays are working on projects that involve the JEE environment. As such they work on code that runs within the context of the servlet container or the application server. Which provides many services for the application developer, including session management. But what do you do if you suddenly find yourself outside [...]

Shooting ducks

If you want to make an omelette… you have to shoot some ducks! A counterpoint to Arjen Poutsma’s WS-DuckTyping

Author’s note: this was actually an article written by me for a different publication some time back. However, this is its first publication.

Introduction

In his blog on WS-DuckTyping, Arjen Poutsma gives some tips on using [...]