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A partial solution: I'm a fan of XP (Extreme Programming). In many situations the principles and practices that underly XP make a lot of sense to me. I'm not offended when someone else doesn't like it or finds fault with it or decides it's not for them -- as long as their decision is an informed decision. » Read more
(August 7, 2003 6:47AM PT)

Feature Stories

		Multithreaded Tests with JUnit: JUnit is the glue that holds many open source projects together. But JUnit has problems performing multithreaded unit tests. This article introduces a JUnit extension library designed to enable multithreaded unit testing in JUnit. » Read more (Aug 05, 2003)

		Lucene Intro: Lucene is a high-performance, scalable, search engine technology. The first part of this article takes you through an example of using Lucene to index all the text files in a directory and its subdirectories. The remainder provides examples of analysis and searching. » Read more (Jul 30, 2003)

Also Today

New Java Language Features: The transcript from last week's Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter chat on New Java Language Features has been posted. The hour long chat featured answers to dozens of specific questions about the implementation of features that did make it into J2SE 1.5 and questions of why other features didn't make it in.
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The Case Against Extreme Programming: Matt Stephens' article The Case Against Extreme Programming argues against a collection of practices that he sees as being too interdependent and collectively fragile. He says that "XP is like a ring of poisonous snakes, daisy-chained together. All it takes is for one of them to wriggle loose, and you've got a very angry, poisonous snake heading your way."
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