GWT RPC is a technology with both great promises as well as many practical pitfalls. On the one hand, GWT RPC magically handles the transport of objects from a Java server to a JavaScript based client, without any need to create and maintain legacy data formats (e.g. in JSON)
The world is rife for a new dominant programming language! Actually, has been rife for a couple of years, which, however, does not stop Java and C++ from dominating the screens of many unfortunate developers. Apart from the inarguably impressive features offered by 'new' languages, such as Scala,
One common theme in discussions of persistence is to be critical of the traditional SQL databases, which have been successfully used in business applications for decades. As alternative to these SQL databases, often so called NoSQL solutions are advocated. NoSQL, essentially, dramatically simplifies the kind of data, which can be
Exceptions are a necessary evil of most software development endeavours. As much as we would like to design applications, which are equivalent to mathematical functions 'give me one input and always I will trustfully return you the same output', the real world IOExceptions, OutOfMemoryExceptions, DivideByZeroExceptions and their various
Formatting JavaDoc using plain HTML can be a troublesome and time-intensive experience. Today I installed the JDocEditor plugin for eclipse, which allows editing JavaDoc in eclipse using a small rich text editor. Here, a quick evaluation, a few screenshots and a little getting started guide. Evaluation Good: * Free * Helps to
The question of the right programming language is one that has always spurned much controversy. Likewise, the idea that one day we could develop software by simply 'drawing' expressive models has as many advocators as opponents. The idea of domain specific languages could be one which helps us
The other day I came across another interesting static source code analysis plugin for eclipse: JDepend. JDepend calculates a number of quality metrics for Java packages (therewith it has a slightly different unit of analysis to other tools, which focus on methods, classes or projects). I found that Andrey Loskutov
In order to configure a simple Apache Web Server, I found myself many a time connecting to a UNIX system using putty, fiddling around with various configuration files using pico or vim. I don't want to count the times I deleted some configuration I later missed dearly or
In order to mount an image file on VirtualBox, I needed to convert an IMG image file into an ISO format (VirtualBox does not support mounting IMG files). There seem to be a myriad of applications available for this purpose; many of them commercial or at least shareware. With OSFMount
Google offers free web hosting as part of their 'Google Sites' service. Anyone with a Google (gmail) account can sign up for a website with an address such as https://sites.google.com/site/\[yoursitename\]. Google sites has some nice features, first and foremost that editing the website
After having published a number of posts on Maven and integration between Maven and eclipse in particular, I have been thinking for a while to summarize some best practices in a post. I have found that these best practices are actually too long and too interdependent to fit nicely in
Problem Today I came across a strange error when generating eclipse metadata using maven. Running "mvn eclipse:eclipse" results in : [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin:2.8:eclipse (default-cli) on project mxGWTUtils: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin:2.8:
