Nicolas Fränkel

CDI is part of JavaEE 6 and that’s a great move forward. Now, there’s a standard telling vendors and developers how to do DI. It can be refined, but it’s here nonetheless. Norms and standards are IMHO a good thing in any industry. Yet, I don’t subscribe to some people’s points of view that this means the end of Spring. There are multiple DI frameworks around here and Spring is number one. Why is that? Because it was the first? It wasn’t (look at Avalon). My o

The boys at Sun made really an amazing thing when designing Java. I mean, everyone is cursing it now, predicting Java is dead because of its verbosity and such but could those persons have done better?  I doubt it. Just consider Java 's penetration in the enterprise…​ Verbosity enforces readibility, a nice feature in the enterprise where people move from position to position, in and out. However, I have stumbled upon a troubling quirk. Most Java’s nuts and bolts are enforced a

With such a controversial title, I’m bound to be the target of heated comments. Although provocative, such is not my goal, however, I just want to initiate an educated debate between people that are interested into thinking about the problem. The origin of this post was a simple discussion between developers of different level of experience on Hibernate. The talk was about eager-, lazy-loading and the infamous LazyInitializationException. Since I imagine not everyone has the problem in hi

Monday took place the first Soft-Shake event in Geneva, Switzerland. You’re probably wondering what a Soft-Shake event is. Basically, most events focus on one area: Oracle Technologies, Java, Apple, PM methods, what have you. Most of us, however, have multiple interests. Since even in the pure science field, the trend is to decompartmentalize, it is only natural that computer sciences should take the same path. The answer is Soft-Shake: a cocktail of sessions that mixes different but connec

At my customer’s site, I have the chance to work in a team of architects. This is rare enough to be mentioned, since most of the time, I’m alone. This is an opportunity to exchange thoughts. Earlier this year, we talked between us about similitudes that sometimes exist between searching for an architectural solution and hunting in 3 phases. At the beginning, it is simple enough: the requirements are clear, and the path to them is straight. You’re tasked with hunting for just

This week’s post will be about beans conversion. In the past, I’ve ranted about DTO and their indiscriminate use in applications. I do concede, however, that DTO are sometimes necessary: this article points out some contexts where they might be. Moreover, DTO even may not be enough, bringing the need for View Objects. Such is the case for layered architectures in big projects.