Soul Power

It’s been official for a few days now, so I thought I could drop a public note about me joining SpringSource Germany (division of VMware) as Senior Consultant beginning March 1st this year. Time to look back on three exciting years at Synyx and an outlook of what’s about to come.
I joined Synyx almost exactly [...]

As I was just remembered on Twitter, my talk on Hades at Devoxx 2009 is now freely available to watch at Parleys.com. So watch it here or direcly at Parleys.

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 [...]

This blog post will be the starting point of a series of posts regarding often neglected classes in Spring. There are two main reasons for me to write this series. First, I really would like to unveil a set of classes that deserve some deeper attention as they make developer’s life a lot easier inside [...]

Let me announce that as of yesterday Hades ships in its first stable version 1.0. As this of course marks an important milestone let me just briefly give an overview of the features Hades provides. I will start with the very basic features in this post and continue to elaborate on advanced ones in furthers [...]

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 [...]

Today I devoted my day to a general check in how far Hades can be run with the latest Spring 3 milestone. After managing the typical Maven foo I had a project profile up and running that builds Hades against Spring 3 M3 and executes the tests against it. In case you try to migrate [...]

As you might not be aware of, besides injecting dependencies into beans Spring is able to inject dependencies into objects that are not instantiated by Spring. This becomes especially handy if you’re stuck to Domain Driven Design leveraging a rich domain model over an anemic one. As there’s been some buzz around that functionality on [...]