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Ignoring Requirements: You get a big fat requirements specification document. You know, the one big enough for a three year old to use as a booster seat. You couldn't possibly have read it all -- do you sign it? In Java Today we link to Stephen Taylor's discussion of this issue. In The Experience of Being Understood, Taylor says that in his experience, the business manager always signs to approve a document he couldn't possibly have read himself. » Read more
(July 17, 2003 8:31AM PT)
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Introduction To Naked Objects:
It is time to strip applications of complex UIs and give users direct access to business objects. The concept
is simple: write behaviorally complete business model objects and use generic views and controllers. » Read more
(Jul 15, 2003)
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Analyze this - A conversation with James Gosling:
For the past several years, Java's creator James Gosling has been working at Sun Labs, researching ways to analyze and manipulate programs represented as annotated parse trees, a project called Jackpot. In this first of three articles that will appear on Artima.com, Bill Venners talks with Gosling about how Jackpot can help programmers analyze, visualize, and refactor their programs. » Read more
(Jul 13, 2003)
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First Community Meeting:
java.net is itself a java.net community. We are in
the process of organizing and figuring out how to best be a community. During
this year's JavaOne conference, java.net's first community meeting was held.
Here are the unedited notes of one of the Sun employees that helped steer this
project before launch. » Read more
(Jul 16, 2003)
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Time stamping JSP pages:
Brett McGlaughlin provides a quick introduction to adding time stamps to a JSP page in the developerWorks article JSP Best Practices: The power of time stamps. Brett notes that "In addition to reassuring users that the content on your site is fresh and timely, adding time and date stamps is a first step to personalizing your Web site. After you have added a time stamp to a Web page (or JSP page), it's trivial to script a program to e-mail users as selected pages are updated."
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How to Become a Java Guru
Greg discusses the value of being a generalist by making yourself aware of many of the nooks and crannies of the Java APIs and how it is of practical help on real world projects. If you've never heard about the wheel, you're bound to reinvent it.
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