Teaching and doing: As a recovering academic, I think a lot about bridging the gulf between practitioners and teachers. If industry wants more students to be better prepared then we have to devote some time supporting those that teach our future colleagues. How should the teachers reach across the divide? » Read more
(August 13, 2003 5:33AM PT)

Instant Logging: In their developerWorks article on Instant Logging, Ruth Zamorano and Rafael Luque provide an example of adding logging to a distributed application. They take you through the steps of using log4j in an Instant Messaging application built on Jabber. They advise "Logging statements inserted in a set of well-defined points of the code function as an auditing tool that provides useful information about the internal state of applications. Contrary to mainstream opinion, we think in many cases it's convenient to leave log statements in the production code."
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Javapedia: ProxyPattern: There is a newly created Javapedia page on the Proxy Pattern. The page explains that "The target of this pattern is to define the proxy object, that acts between client and real subject to control access to the real subject and to perform necessary tasks every time the real subject is accessed. " Several examples are presented. Add to or modify the description of Proxy Pattern and join in the Javapedia discussion.
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