Solving Domain Problems with AspectsAslam Khan, factor10, South AfricaAspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a notoriously difficult topic which many do not grasp at the first attempt, or even after several attempts. Although AOP has its roots in fundamental object oriented patterns, part of the problem with the complexity in AOP is the terminology and language used. Another contributor is the examp…
PowerMockJan Kronquist & Johan Haleby, Jayway, SwedenPowerMock can be used to test code normally regarded as untestable! Have you ever heard anyone say that you should never use static or final methods in your code because it makes them impossible to test? Have you ever changed a method from private to protected for the sake of testability?What about avoiding “new”? Think again! PowerMock lets yo…
Service Oriented Integration With Apache ServiceMixBruce Snyder, Apache, USASOA is simply a way to think when designing systems. Service oriented integration is a way to leverage investments in existing IT systems using the principles of SOA. Apache ServiceMix is an enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides a platform for system integration utilizing reusable components in a service oriented mann…
Grid Computing Made SimpleNikita Ivanov, GridGain, USAThe topic of this presentation is about fastest growing open source Java grid computing framework called GridGain and how its focus on elegant simplicity and Enterprise Java integration is helping to revolutionize the grid computing for Java in the same way as Spring or JBoss have changed Enterprise Java landscape.The presentation will start wi…
Spring == XML, XML == sucks, therefore Spring == sucks??Alef Arendsen, SpringSource, the NetherlandsLast November, Spring 2.5 was released. This version of Spring, the de-facto Java EE application platform marks the beginning of the introduction of alternative ways to configure components. In the, we’ve mainly focused on provided XML as the main language to perform Dependency Injection on object….