On 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 [...]
In 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 [...]
The “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 [...]
Elliotte Rusty Harold writes his predictions for Java and XML in 2007.
I have a relatively good background in functional programming and being a Java programmer I really miss some of the features that can be found in functional programming languages, like SML and Scheme. Scala is a unique language for me, not only because it combines features from object oriented languages (classes, inheritance, mixins) and functional [...]