The Spring vs Java EE discussions have started up again recently, primarily triggered by a Gartner report entitled "Market Guide for Application Platforms". The report wasn’t sponsored by Pivotal (as far as I know you can’t sponsor Gartner reports) but yo... (more…)

In a previous post, we announced that Oracle was beginning to explore moving Java EE technologies to an open source foundation in order to make the process of... (more…)

Writing software is hard. Writing good software is harder. Writing good, simple software is the hardest. Writing good, simple software as a team is the hardest… est. (more…)

Besides writing efficient code, mastering the art of debugging is one of the most useful things Java programmers can do to make their life… (more…)

If you're a java developer you probably heard (often many times) that java is dead. But this is absolutely not true, and java is more alive than ever before. There were a huge discussion in the java community about the new release cadence, which is now 6 ... (more…)