http://chaoticjava.com The internet, design patterns, frameworks and Java Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:09:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/revival-of-the-yielder-project/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/revival-of-the-yielder-project/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:17:00 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=314 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/revival-of-the-yielder-project/feed/ 0 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/using-openid-within-gwt/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/using-openid-within-gwt/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:13:44 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=227 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/using-openid-within-gwt/";For those of you who don’t know what OpenID is, get to know it now. This post is going to be about how to use OpenID authentication in your GWT applications. First, a reminder of what OpenID is: OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet. My [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/using-openid-within-gwt/feed/ 39 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/functors-in-java-and-beyond/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/functors-in-java-and-beyond/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:23:13 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/functors-in-java-and-beyond/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/functors-in-java-and-beyond/";Functors are defined as a function encapsulated in an object. In most cases, the function’s parameters can be set and the result retrieved using the common accessor pattern, such as setParameter1(Object value) or getResult(). The fact that these functions are encapsulated by real objects is also the reason for its greatest benefit: the use of [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/functors-in-java-and-beyond/feed/ 6 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javadoc-is-dead-long-live-docweb/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javadoc-is-dead-long-live-docweb/#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 08:14:53 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javadoc-is-dead-long-live-docweb/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javadoc-is-dead-long-live-docweb/";I guess I completely missed out on this because it seems like there was a better looking documentation of Java out there (still a prototype, but is stable) and I kept using the old JavaDoc one. Anyway, if you’re using JavaDoc and want to have killer web documentations, take a look at this open source [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/javadoc-is-dead-long-live-docweb/feed/ 0 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/generics-mess/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/generics-mess/#comments Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:13:22 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/generics-mess/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/generics-mess/";Sometimes, Generics can just cause a mess. Take for example the following definition I had to produce, just to get out of a Generified library I had somehow brought to life: public final class PlayerFinishedAction< TGame extends TurnBasedGame< ? extends Board, TPlayer, ? extends Turn<Phase<TPlayer>>, ? extends Phase<TPlayer>>, TPlayer extends TurnBasedPlayer> extends DefaultAction<TPlayer, Location> { [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/generics-mess/feed/ 7 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/bi-directional-type-safe-containers/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/bi-directional-type-safe-containers/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:34:44 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/posts/bi-directional-type-safe-containers/ dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/bi-directional-type-safe-containers/";It seems that in almost every system I write has a bi-directional containment. For example, a Table instance containing Column instances that should know to reference back to the Table instance containing them. Sometimes, when writing an API that uses these kind of tables and columns and allows the user of the API to define [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/bi-directional-type-safe-containers/feed/ 1 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/convention-vs-configuration/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/convention-vs-configuration/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:43:31 +0000 Aviad http://chaoticjava.com/?p=144 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/convention-vs-configuration/";If I try to look at the path software made in its lifetime, I’d see that the amount of configuration required to build an application started with none, gradually grew bit by bit as more and more components were starardised until it reaches the state we’re in today, the too much configuration stage. Quickly peeking [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/convention-vs-configuration/feed/ 1 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/necessity-of-junits/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/necessity-of-junits/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:30:18 +0000 Aviad http://javachaos.crazyredpanda.com/?p=97 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/necessity-of-junits/";Unit testing is cruicial. If there is Anything you can say about the tools you need in order to create a framework, is that creating unit tests is your safety net when you decide to refactor it completely (and any framework, at its first steps, might go through such a thing – Nothing is ever [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/necessity-of-junits/feed/ 2 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-tools-you-need-to-write-a-framework/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-tools-you-need-to-write-a-framework/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:46:20 +0000 Aviad http://javachaos.crazyredpanda.com/?p=83 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-tools-you-need-to-write-a-framework/";From my own experience, an IDE is just not enough to write a framework. I will try to list a few things I feel are cruicial for a safe, fast and productive development of a framework. These tools are good for any type of projects, but since frameworks are characterised by having a user base [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/the-tools-you-need-to-write-a-framework/feed/ 4 http://chaoticjava.com/posts/making-your-framework-known/ http://chaoticjava.com/posts/making-your-framework-known/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:52:14 +0000 Aviad http://javachaos.crazyredpanda.com/?p=76 dzone_url = "http://chaoticjava.com/posts/making-your-framework-known/";Just like with fresh businesses, the most important thing in making your framework known is ‘Location, Location, Location’. Choosing a location is not that simple: The variety is huge, the advantages and disadvantages in each are worthy of deep consideration, and a thought for future growth is required even when choosing that first ground to [...]]]> http://chaoticjava.com/posts/making-your-framework-known/feed/ 1