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• Evil Design Patterns - When Design Patterns Become the Problem

  Have you ever been on a project in which all of your team members have just gone through an intense week of Design Pattern training? It's painful.  Continue Reading

• Learn Hibernate Quickly: Simplified Java Persistence with Hibernate & JPA

  Learn Hibernate Quickly: Simplified Java Persistence with Hibernate & JPA, covering both Hibernate 3.2.x and the JPA 2.0 compliant Hibernate 3.5.  Continue Reading

• WebSphere Portal 7 Performance Tips: Changing the Heap Size & Verbose Garbage Collection

  Why is WebSphere Portal Server 7 so slow? It's not! It's just not configured properly. Sal Pece will show you a few quick little changes you can perform on your WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) to help speed things up.  Continue Reading

• ZK Performance Monitors

  Given Ajax applications' event driven nature, it would be beneficial if developers could identify the time consuming event handlers and make the necessary performance tuning accordingly. With ZK, a server-driven Ajax framework, developers could ...  Continue Reading

• Dependency Injection in Java EE 6: Conversations (Part 4)

  This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for comprehensive next-generation type-safe dependency injection as well ...  Continue Reading

• Special characters in XAML

  XAML files are a form of XML. As such, they have to follow the rules of XML. There is one XML rule that can cause trouble when working with strings within attributes in XAML, known as special character.  Continue Reading

• Spring Converters and Formatters

  Spring 3.0 introduces a simple Converter interface that you can implement and reuse anywhere in Spring. You can use them in Spring MVC to convert request String values to Controller method parameter values of any Object type that you can write a ...  Continue Reading