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Aspects of Domain Model Management

Using a domain model is rarely as easy as just creating the actual domain model classes and then using them. Soon enough one discovers that sizable amounts of infrastructure code will also be required in support of the domain model. In this article, Mats Helander explains how to use Domain Model Management to handle this complexity in a simple way.

Mats Helander
on Dec 23, 2007
Software Testing With Spring Framework

Srini & Kavitha Penchikala provide an overview of the support provided by Spring framework in the areas of unit and integration testing. I will use a sample loan processing web application to help the readers in implementing an Agile Testing framework in a typical Java EE application and how to use Spring test classes to test the application functionality.

Kavitha Penchikala Srini
on Nov 12, 2007
Using Hibernate to Support Custom Domain Object Fields

Hibernate is a widely used ORM tool for Java. Some applications of it are not always straight forward however. A new InfoQ article looks at using Hibernate to provide a commonly requested feature of custom fields for domain objects without requiring a restart of the system. The article will walk through the solution's implementation, testing, and future improvements.

Enterra Inc.
on Nov 05, 2007
Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate

Gavin Terrill explores one of the lessor known facilities available to web developers, the humble "ETag Response Header", and how to integrate its use in a Spring and Hibernate based web app to improve application performance and scalability.

Gavin Terrill
on Jul 11, 2007
Introduction to ActiveMessaging for Rails

The maintainer of ActiveMessaging for Ruby on Rails gives a comprehensive and informative introduction to his open-source framework, which enables enterprise messaging technologies to be easily integrated with Ruby on Rails applications, and is getting support from noted industry leaders such as James Strachan and Jon Tirsen.

Andrew Kuklewicz
on Mar 01, 2007
ORM with DrySQL and ActiveRecord

ActiveRecord fails the DRY principle, especially if your database doesn't follow Rails naming conventions. As well, ActiveRecord associations and validations are redundant specifications of database constraints. Bryan wants to avoid (as much as possible) the situation where he's averse to making changes to his database schema, because of the resulting effort to change his app code.

Bryan Evans
on Dec 08, 2006
Railway Story: SimpleTicket

A 5-year old, Dallas-based company named Spur is gaining attention and kudos within Ruby on Rails circles. Earlier this week it announced a new release of its popular GPL'd IT support tool named SimpleTicket. Managing Partner Alexander Muse was kind enough to share the story of SimpleTicket with InfoQ.

Obie Fernandez
on Nov 15, 2006
Java

An Update on Spring 2.0 Final

Spring 2.0 was initially supposed to come out in June/July, why the delay? InfoQ interviewed the Spring team - based on massive community feedback, the team has chosen to delay the launch to Sept 26th in order work on asynchronous JMS capabilities, JPA, the new JSP form tag library, OSGi integration, documentation, and backwards compatibility.

Floyd Marinescu
on Sep 05, 2006
Book Review: Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse.

Anil Hemrajani relates Agile practices to Java and several open source toolsets (Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse) designed to make Java development simpler. It's a high level overview of some free technologies used in web app development. Matt Morton liked this book, recommending it to technical managers and intermediate developers in small Java web development shops.

Matt Morton
on Jun 28, 2006