A Java geek

My work is IT architecture, meaning I focus on the early steps of a project. Once the application is in production, I usually leave it to systems and production engineers. For example, for JVM fine tuning, most of the clients I worked for have people that have the right skills to do that. Nevertheless, I need sometimes to sully my nails. This happens in two cases: when the client is too small to have such dedicated teams or when its production team are not experienced enough to handle the probl

JEE never ceases to amaze me. Even when I think I’m on top and I know all there’s to know about webapps, I’m in for a surprise. Good news is, whatever you think you know about a subject, there’s still room for one more fact. Bad news is, I’m deeply disturbed by what I learned.

Chances are, if you are an software architect and you need to make applications available over the network, you are asking yourself what client technology to use. In this article, I will try to list the solutions used previously and then elaborate on the solutions available today.

Flex is now approaching its 4th version. Even since its start, it looked promising. Until some time ago, I didn’t look much into it for it was not Open enough. Two years ago, in order to use Flex application freely, you had to limit yourself to a little subset of Flex. This has changed. At the end of last year, though, my client gave me the opportunity to prototype a simple application and I dived into it. This development gave me an insight into BlazeDS, Spring BlazeDS and Flex itself. O

In this article, I will describe a useful but much underused feature of Spring, the definition of custom tags in the Spring beans definition files.

In this article, I will show you that forms sent by browsers to a server can only use GET and POST HTTP methods and which workaround to apply in order to still use a REST backend.

In this article, I show you the power of the product I stumbled upon this week: Project Lombok enables you to modify bytecode at compile code. First, I will detail what features Lombok brings you out-of-the-box. In the second part of this article, I will describe how to extend it to generate you own code. Introduction Since the dawn of JEE, complaints have been filed regarding the complexity of coding components. I consider EJB v2 a very good example of this complexity: for just a simple EJB,