Launching the Value Object Wizard I have launched a project called Value Object Wizard in sourceforge. Please take a quick look and send me your comments. The details are in the home page.  

With no offense to the favored species, here is a bad joke about blonds: Question: Why is it a bad idea to give the weekend off to a blond? Answer: Because you have to retrain her on Monday. But browsers, unlike blonds, learn from experience and keep these learnings for sometime. Which means that if [...]

This article delves more into the performance analysis exercise that I alluded to in a previous article. We begin our analysis with the web layer which serves as the entry and egress to our core application. Does your web layer buckle under load as the spider’s web here seems to have ?  Tweaking the web [...]

Application performance testing is just about the last thing that we may have to do before we could certify an application as production ready. Or it may be just about the last thing we do before we decide to discard the app in the dumpster. This may be a loud roar or a death knell [...]

I see quite a few arguments in various forums bemoaning about the surfeit of choice that is available in the Java world.  For instance, there was a question about the best choice for Unit testing frameworks in Java to which the answer was that the questioner was better off choosing .NET since it tends to [...]

Imagine a large building with its foundation resting on a bedrock. Now consider  the possible impact of doing  any kind of repair work on the bedrock!  Sounds scary? Fortunately, the analogy does not fully extend to the realm of software in its full gravity. Yet this metaphorical mental escapade would bring some notion of the [...]

Horizontal concerns & SRP We start with an object oriented tenet that states that one class must implement one and only one responsibility. This is called the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). SRP states for instance that a UserService class can only do “user management” and nothing else. This at the outset may look very obvious [...]