The Rich Engineering Heritage Behind Dependency Injection

Andrew McVeigh takes us on a tour of the rich heritage behind dependency injection, what it represents, and tells us why its here to stay.

NetBeans 6: Matisse Updates

NetBeans 6 delivers great updates to the Matisse GUI builder. Spend a few minutes with Roman Strobl and get an expert briefing on what's new and what has changed. (sponsored)

Introduction to Groovy Part 3

In this, the third and final installation of Andres' Introduction to Groovy series, you learn about how Groovy handles variable numbers of arguments, named parameters, currying, and more about Groovy operators. Including, some new operators.

Easier Custom Components with Swing Fuse

Swing Fuse (actually just Fuse), is a framework designed to make it easier to create your own custom desktop components. In this article, Daniel Spiewak shows you how to get started and provides sample source code you can download.

Benchmark Analysis: Guice vs Spring

Willam Louth shows how he uses JXInsight Probes to investigate probable performance issues with code bases that he is not familiar with. He also highlights possible pitfalls in creating a benchmark, as well as in the analysis of results.

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Book Review - Test Driven: Practical TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Develo

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This book delves deeply into test-driven development (TDD) and acceptance test-driven development, two ideas that could revolutionize how software is written. These two approaches to development share a basic idea: that the intent and use of software is better specified by specific tests than by normal-language words. Put that way, hardly anyone would disagree, but that's not how software is typically developed. All too often, developers labor from vague specifications or descriptions that would be perfectly clear with a domain knowledge they do not have.
Read David's full review.