Posts under ‘Methodologies’

Compile-time architecture enforcement revisited: AspectJ, Maven and Eclipse

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 [...]

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 conference was [...]