• 11 – Welcome To Azzyzt JEE Tools

    I have already hinted at it in the answers to comments, but now it is official. Azzyzt JEE Tools are available as open source. Azzyzt JEE Tools are based on my Eclipse / GlassFish / Java EE 6 Tutorial and on a subsequent internal class that I held in October/November 2010 and that was based [...]

  • 10 – That’s Why They Call It Stateless

    Have you ever wondered how stateless an EJB3 Stateless Session Bean is? Well, I have, I wrote a test program and I got some interesting and – for me – surprising results, that I wanted to share. My original understanding (or let’s call it mis-understanding) was, that the JEE server has a pool of EJB [...]

  • 9 – Erratum: How I Shot Myself

    One more error: In a comment to my Eclipse / GlassFish / Java EE 6 tutorial, FMora said: One detail – if you annotate a constraint with @NotNull and then insert a null value via SoapUI, one gets a NPE instead of a constraint violation. Oh dear, that’s so true and it is a typical [...]

  • 8 – Erratum: Accessing HTTP headers from an interceptor

    In my Eclipse / GlassFish / Java EE 6 Cookbook I have mentioned how to access HTTP headers from an interceptor. Unfortunately the code contained an error and here is an update.

  • 7 – Eclipse 3.6 “Helios” and GlassFish 3.01

    Since I published my Eclipse / GlassFish / Java EE 6 tutorial, Oracle has published a bugfix release to GlassFish v3, their reference implementation of Java EE 6, and Eclipse 3.6, code name “Helios”, has arrived. The last two days I had a deeper look into the combination, and in this post I explain what has changed.

  • 6 – An Eclipse / GlassFish / Java EE 6 Cookbook

    This is a tutorial about using Eclipse and the GlassFish v3 Java application server to implement Java EE 6 applications. I will show how to use different Eclipse project types for different purposes, will show how to do manual tests and how to implement automatic unit tests. We will not create a complete application, but more a vertical slice through an application. The idea is to just touch all relevant areas, not to finish a project.

    The tutorial assumes the existence of a relational database, and it concentrates on the Java application used as a backend. Using JSF or another server-based GUI framework is definitely out of scope.

  • 5 – Patterns And Languages

    The Pattern Movement in Software Engineering has become very popular and has produced many books, some of them arguably extremely good, but apart from automatic refactoring in modern IDEs, the number of supporting tools is surprisingly low. This post shows what is missing and how code generation is really the logical way to implement pattern support.

  • 3 – What Can I Rely On?

    In the last post we have seen that it will take me years to finish this project. The question is, what can I rely on, what can I build upon. What are the tools that I can use, without worrying that they are obsolete before my own tool even becomes usable?

The Mission

 

Do you make software? Do you realize, that you do the same things over and again, constantly evaluating new technologies, in the hope that things must get better, someday, somehow? Did it ever occur to you, that the only thing that makes a change is making changes? This blog is about making a big change.

My name is Andreas Manessinger, all thoughts on this blog are mine and so are the images. Eventually there will be software, but so far it’s all about dreaming up a plan :)