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If you have worked with Spring 2.5 annotation based web MVC framework you know that it allows you to freely design you controller method signatures:
@RequestMapping(value = “users”, method = GET)
public String showUsers(Model model) {
model.addAttribute(“users”,
userManagement.getUsers());
return “users”;
}
As you can see we use a parameter of type Model that will [...]

In the last few days it I happened to two short discussions on Twitter with Adam Bien (not really a discussion) and Keith Donald (slightly more intesive) on distinct but yet somehow related topics regarding the use of annotations in Java.
Using the right tool for the job
Keith answered my following tweet i posted after revisiting [...]

Right now I’m sitting in the train back home from Düsseldorf to Mannheim. It’s been two exciting days at the GearConf, a conference centered around software development in teams. Thus the spectrum of talks ranged from rather process oriented ones to tool oriented ones.
Thursday began with a talk on whether a dayly release is really [...]

After I got started holding presentations at conferences at Devoxx last year, this autumn will get really packed with presentation dates. I will kick of the season at GearConf in Düsseldorf. On Thursday Oct. 1st I will speak about increasing developer productivity with Mylyn. During development of Hades Mylyn became an indispensable tool to get [...]

I just want to announce that I am going to speak about Hades at Devoxx and The Server Side Java Symposium this year. The TSSJS takes place in Prague (Czech Republic) from Oct. 27th to 28th whereas Devoxx will be held between Nov. 16th and  20th in Antwerp (Beligum). I am thrilled by the list [...]

Episode 121 of Software Engineering Radio deals with the topic of OR Mappers. Michael Plöd introduces the concept of object-relational mapping technologies, discusses advantages and disadvantages. The content of the episode is very basic to a large extend, which makes it ideal to get an introducing idea of the topic.
The reason I discuss this here [...]

As i twittered a few days ago, I stumbled over a subtle issue in the core Java library. Not as extreme as here but one to raise ones eyebrows, too.
I just wanted to write a small method to access an enum value by its String representation or use a default, if the conversion fails:
public static [...]

I’m taking a break currently, skipping one of the talks here. Devoxx is actually the most exciting conference I ever attended and I want to take the chance to recap some of the impressions I got here. After 4 days of non-daylight, lots of coffee and coke, I really have to say that I liked [...]