Spiros Tzavellas’s blog, mostly on software development and Java.
Oracle has released the Toplink O/R mapping framework as open source. They proposed a new persistence project, named Eclipse Persistence Platform (or EclipseLink for short), at the Eclipse Foundation and they are donating the Toplink source code to start the project. The EclipseLink will be a runtime project offering only libraries and no IDE tooling. […]
continue reading Oracle Toplink is now open sourceOn Saturday the 10th of March the 4th JHUG tech day took place. Dionysios and Paris have written excellent coverages of the event so I won’t write any details about it. This was our best event so far and I am very happy that our JUG has sustainably organized events with great success. It is […]
continue reading The 4th JHUG tech dayIn the upcoming 1.4 release of Google Web Toolkit, finally all the serialization logic has been removed from the RemoteServiceServlet. The serialization code now resides into a new class named RPC. This is a small but important change that will allow developers to easily integrate GWT with other server-side frameworks. I am sure that a […]
continue reading The RPC refactorings in GWT 1.4The “Tell, don’t Ask” object oriented principle says: … you should endeavor to tell objects what you want them to do; do not ask them questions about their state, make a decision, and then tell them what to do. Below I have a simple example from the Google Web Toolkit APIs that demonstrates how a […]
continue reading A simple example of “Tell, don’t Ask”Elliotte Rusty Harold writes his predictions for Java and XML in 2007.
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