Have developers "forgotten their place" : I don't know why the talkback to Kathy Sierra's blog upset me so much. She wrote a well reasoned piece on developer/customer interaction and JBob's response is that it "Sounds like developers have forgotten their place." » Read more

Killing the Servlets, softly, with his song...: Greg Wilkins spouts off on why he thinks that the servlet spec needs to be supplanted by something focused on the content. — John D. Mitchell

Swing Hack 7: Let it Snow!: Joshua uses a new hack to draw snowflakes outside of theJWindow. — Joshua Marinacci

Command Oriented Interface
Martin Fowler explains that a "command oriented interface would have a command class for each operation, and be called with something like this CalculateChargeCommand.new(aContract).run().Essentially you have one command class for each method that you would have in the method-oriented interface." In Command Oriented Interface he describes the benefits and appropriateness of using this approach as opposed to calling a method from an object like this BillingService.calculateCharges(aContract)

Top 15 Ant Best Practices
What's the first thing you do when you create a new project? In Erik M. Burke's Top 15 Ant Best Practices , he writes that " I begin by creating the Ant buildfile. Ant defines the build process and is used by every programmer on the team throughout the day. All of the tips in this article assume the Ant buildfile is an important artifact that must be written with care, maintained in version control, and refactored periodically." His ONJava article presents a collection of tips and points out avoidable problems.