Articles

Using the Strategy Design Pattern for Sorting POJOs
You have some plain ol' Java objects and you want to sort them. By what field? Well, by which ever one the user wants. But that implies different kinds of search logic, and how will you keep it straight? Olexiy Prohorenko shows how the Strategy design pattern is perfectly suited to solve this problem. Apr. 7, 2005

Your Hibernate-Powered Application is Ready for CMT
Using Hibernate with container-managed transactions is so simple that Hibernate's FAQ practically brushes off the question. Yet many report having a hard time getting it working. In this article, Olexiy Prohorenko shows how. Jan. 20, 2005

Testing Your Enterprise JavaBeans with Cactus
Test-driven development is an important technique, but Enterprise JavaBeans can be difficult to test in isolation. Cactus, from Apache's Jakarta project, makes this easy by bridging JUnit unit tests to server-side application containers. Olexiy Prohorenko shows how it works. Dec. 7, 2004