Here at The Server Labs we place a high value on automated unit and integration tests and believe that they are fundamental whether you are using an agile methodology or not. We use Maven on the vast majority of our projects and we often use Jetty as a web container in plain Java web projects [...]
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When to use Transfer Objects with EJB 3
We’ve recently been involved in an EJB 3 project that uses the ‘Transfer Object’ Design Pattern. For those of you not familiar with it, this pattern came about as a result of the inefficiency of making multiple remote method calls to an EJB 2 Entity Bean. The typical Transfer Object use case is where an [...]
TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe – part 1
Last week I attended TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe, a 3 day conference held in Barcelona. I was pleasantly surprised by the variety of topics, the quality of the speakers and the professional organization; it reminded me of the early days of JavaOne. J2EE vs Spring/Hibernate open source stacks One of the recurrent themes of the [...]
