Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

Most enterprise applications rely on the database as the persistence mechanism. Integration tests for these applications require data in the database to run correctly. For integration tests to be ...

JBoss Seam is an intriguing framework that unifies JSF, EJB 3, JPA, and JAAS under an accessible component-based model. But adopting Seam doesn’t mean that you have to lose the advantages of other ...

If you’ve had your ear to the ground recently, you’ve likely been hearing a lot about service-oriented application development with OSGi and Spring Dynamic Modules. In this second article in the Hello ...