Posts under ‘Methodologies’

Following on from my post the other day, I’m very happy to announce that we have released the source code for our Maven utPLSQL plugin under an Apache 2.0 license.
The code (and downloads for the latest version of the plugin) is published on the Google Code website and is available from the following URL:

http://code.google.com/p/maven-utplsql-plugin/
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PL/SQL is not exactly the coolest technology around these days but many businesses rely on it for their day-to-day operation. The fact that it is relatively old and does not mean that you cannot apply Extreme Programming(XP) practices to PL/SQL development. A few years ago, Steven Feuerstein developed utPLSQL, a unit testing framework for PL/SQL, [...]

It has been a while since we first heard about compile-time checks with AspectJ at the Java Server Symposium in 2007. Since then we have been using and experimenting with this feature of AOP and AspectJ, and more recently we have used this technology to implement architecture enforcment rules for some of our clients.
In this [...]

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 conference was [...]