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Don't Make me Eat the Elephant Again
Bruce Tate's essay on the future of EJB3. He recognizes the creators of EJB for introducing services outside of the scope of our business logic, but he searches for a way to accomplish this in a better, faster, and lighter way. He hopes that the spec leaders will consolidate persistence for J2SE and J2EE under a single, complete standard for the first time. Jun. 15, 2004

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Thanks...: java.net has been good to me for all of these years, but it's time for a change. I'm moving my blog to blog.rapidred.com.
Posted by batate on May 28, 2006 at 08:18 PST | Permalink

We should learn from Active Record: I've long been an ORM bigot. I tend to think ORM is the answer to questions that haven't even been asked yet. But a couple of months of Active Record development is changing the way I think about wrapping. We can learn from Ruby on Rails in this area.
Posted by batate on January 19, 2006 at 09:42 PST | Permalink | Discuss (10)  

Popular vs. Great: Cedric Beust posted an interesting blog about the Fan Syndrome as it pertains to Ruby on Rails. It got me thinking, why are some great frameworks scorned, and why are some poor frameworks popular?
Posted by batate on December 17, 2005 at 09:56 PST | Permalink | Discuss (23)  

Joe, the Amazing Coding Monkey: What an amazing couple of weeks. Beyond Java became generally available last week, and my pet monkey learned to code.
Posted by batate on October 03, 2005 at 08:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (12)  

Kudos to JCP executive committee.: JDO passes unanimously. Hats off to the JCP. They did the right thing.
Posted by batate on March 01, 2005 at 13:11 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The toy?: David Geary recently wrote a thought provoking article critical of Ruby on Rails. I think that he's got some great points. And I think he's wrong.
Posted by batate on February 25, 2005 at 12:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (31)  

Why the JCP will do the right thing by JDO 2.0: In mid January, the JDO 2.0 public draft was voted down by the JCP. This issue will soon come up for a vote again, and a no-vote could kill JDO. But this won't happen.
Posted by batate on February 22, 2005 at 07:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (22)  

Time, wisdom and AOP: Like a number of people, I've been asked if AOP is the next big thing. And I've been wondering myself exactly when it's going to "pop". What's missing?
Posted by batate on October 13, 2004 at 13:27 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

Spring and the English Archer: In this blog, Bruce Tate looks at the english archer, its impact on the battlefield, and compares them to the emergence of Spring.
Posted by batate on July 30, 2004 at 02:55 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

A strange car: I've been a little perplexed about some of the responses calling for improvements of Java simplicity and testability. I'll blog about that later. First, I wanted to tell you about shopping for a strange car.
Posted by batate on July 14, 2004 at 22:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

A little heresy: I just read Hackers and Painters, and it's got more than enough heresy in it. Great book. I think we're in a wonderful age of heresy, where it's getting easier to buck the establishment to get things done.
Posted by batate on July 08, 2004 at 03:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (11)  

Good middleware: In this blog, Bruce Tate talks about the principles of good middleware design.
Posted by batate on July 07, 2004 at 07:51 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

WHERE'S THE CHICKEN?: In this article, Bruce Tate takes an interesting look at choosing a restaurant in San Francisco at JavaOne. Different types of developers take different approaches.
Posted by batate on July 05, 2004 at 04:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

JDO: Let the games begin: As expected, much of the action at this year's conference has been in the undergound. In this blog, Bruce Tate looks at the fast and furious movement within the Java persistence community.
Posted by batate on June 29, 2004 at 11:38 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

The Illusion of the Wall: In this article, Bruce Tate examines the next programming paradigm. He also talks about what he's looking for at this year's JavaOne.
Posted by batate on June 28, 2004 at 19:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

People of the elephant: Since I wrote the "elephant" article just over a week ago, my mailbox has been flooded. Sure, some of the mail was hate-mail. But a whole lot of you understood the spirit of the article, and it got us talking.
Posted by batate on June 23, 2004 at 09:29 PST | Permalink | Discuss (5)  

Water for your rocket?: These are the "water rockets," people, tools, and ideas, that improve my productivity.
Posted by batate on June 10, 2004 at 10:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

On mountain biking and J2EE: My mountain bike trip down Hermosa Creek reminded me of the current state of J2EE.
Posted by batate on June 03, 2004 at 10:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)