This week, we're delighted to have Lasse Koskela helping to answer questions about their new book Test Driven.
They will hang out in the Testing forum.
The promotion starts Tuesday, September 25th 2007 and will end on Friday, September 28th 2007.
We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Manning.
Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!
This week, we're delighted to have Chet Haase and Guy Romain helping to answer questions about their new book Filthy Rich Clients. They will hang out in the Swing/AWT/SWT/JFace forum.
The promotion starts Tuesday, September 18th 2007 and will end on Friday, September 21st 2007.
We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Prentice Hall.
Please see the book promotions page to ensure your best chances at winning!
[Big Moose Saloon] Discussion on "Any (non framework specific) good articles on TDD with J2EE?"
A rancher wonders how to get into server-side unit testing that's not tied to a particular framework. Doing that with Spring, Hibernate, etc. is discussed a lot; in this thread, members talk about approaching it in a more generic fashion and point to some good reads on the subjects.
The Inaugural 2007 Issue of the JavaRanch Journal has been published. It contains articles on:
- GPL Java
- Better Enterprise/Network Monitoring with Component Diagnostics
- Web Services Authentication with Axis 2
- Dependency Injection and Unit Testing
- This Year's Top Book Reviews
- Interesting stuff elsewhere on the Ranch
Christophe reviewed Ajax Starter Kit by Phil Ballard and gave it 7 out of 10 horseshoes.
All in all, this Starter Kit gives you a quick overview of what Ajax is. If you're impatient to know about Ajax, this 200 pages guide will suit you. ... If you are looking for something more practical, you will need some other materials, as there is no good tutorial in this guide.
You can read the full review and discuss it here.
Recently the relative merits of the Singleton and Factory Patterns were discussed. But since Dependency Injection is all the rage these days, a members wonders how it compares with Factory. The discussion takes place here in the OO, Patterns, UML and Refactoring forum.
Gregg reviewed Filthy Rich Clients by Chet Haase and Romain Guy and gave it 9 out of 10 horseshoes.
[The book] gives some much needed insight into the inner workings of Swing, AWT, and Java2D and how they all interact. ... There are plenty of code fragments in the book to help convey the author's points. ... I'd recommend this book to anyone looking to spruce up their existing desktop applications or design something entirely new and original.
You can read the full review and discuss it here.
A few small enhancements have been made to the Ranch: 1) easy posting of FAQ pages to del.icio.us, 2) automatic Watches for topics you started yourself, and 3) an RSS feed for Today's Active Topics.
More information is available in this thread.