Blogging at the speed of thought

Apache CXF is an open services framework. It is more than just a Web Services stack. Its simple, powerful, and promising. Today, the CXF project graduated from incubation as a top-level Apache project. It has made several stable releases since its incubation. I know projects which still prefer to use first generation Axis due to [...]

I was recently using the 1.1 release of Craig MacKay’s Spring Module for NetBeans which supports the latest Spring Framework 2.5. Spring Framework tutorial hosted at NetBeans.org provides details on how to use this module in NetBeans IDE. Thomas Risberg’s Developing a Spring Framework MVC Application Step-by-Step tutorial is a good one which explains end-to-end [...]

Recently, I was reading a 2-part article series by Eoin Woods on software architecture woos and worries, though he terms as mistakes. Part 1 addresses top-5 and Part 2 addresses the rest. He mostly shares his own experience as a software architect for years. Buckle up, never do these mistakes – It’s The Law in [...]

A Google Code project on detecting singletons in Java code has released its code under Apache Software License. This tool is useful for detecting singletons based on their usage pattern and these patterns are classified as {S, H, M, F}+ingleton. The author introduces these new terminologies based on whether the Singleton is implemented in a [...]