Artima Articles http://www.artima.com/ The most recently published articles at Artima.com. Artima.com http://www.artima.com/images/artima88x33.gif http://www.artima.com/ Borachio: Mock Objects for Scala and Android http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/borachio_mock_objects_for_scala.html Borachio is a mock object library for Scala that supports both mock objects and mock functions. Fit or Future? Which is More Important When Hiring? http://www.artima.com/articles/fit_or_future.html Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, discusses how much weight to give to skills match when evaluating a candidate. A Business Case for New Languages http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/a_business_case_for_new_languages.html Unsure about when to adopt a new technology? Do you think your old technology is "safer"? Maybe ... or perhaps sticking with it offers risks of its own. This article discusses some of the benefits of adopting Scala rather than staying with Java. Using Flex in the Enterprise http://www.artima.com/articles/flex_in_the_enterprise.html In this interview, Frank Sommers, president of AutoSpaces, Inc., discusses how he came to use Flex for his company's enterprise application. Introduction to Flex and AIR Testing with FlexMonkey http://www.artima.com/articles/intro_to_flex_monkey.html This article offers an introduction to FlexMonkey for testing Flex and AIR applications. In addition to discussing how FlexMonkey works, it touches on how automated functional testing can be used for “developer testing” when unit testing reaches its limits. Animating Spark Skins in Flex 4 http://www.artima.com/articles/animating_spark_skins_in_flex_4.html With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use state transitions with the new Spark component architecture in Flex 4 to create dynamic component skins for better user experiences. Writing Concurrent, Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Systems with Akka 1.0 http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/akka_jonas_boner.html Jonas Bonér, the lead developer of Akka, discusses the goals of Akka and the recent Akka 1.0 release. Interactive Spark Components in Flex 4 http://www.artima.com/articles/interactive_spark_components_in_flex.html With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use states with the new component architecture in Flex 4 to create interactive component skins for better user experiences. Rich Component Skins in Flex 4 http://www.artima.com/articles/rich_component_skins_in_flex.html With a demo app from his book, Flex 4 Fun, Chet Haase shows how to use the new component architecture, graphics tags, and filters in Flex 4 to create rich custom component skins. Journey Through Four Interfaces http://www.artima.com/articles/journey_through_four_interfaces.html Frank Sommers discusses his journey through four user interfaces HTML, Swing, Ajax, and Flex. What's New in Scala 2.8: The Architecture of Scala Collections http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/scala_collections_architecture.html In this installment of a series of articles on the latest Scala release, Scala 2.8, Martin Odersky and Lex Spoon explain how the collections library was redesigned in 2.8, and how to extend the library with new collection types. Azul's Pauseless Garbage Collector http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html At the JavaOne 2010 conference in San Francisco, Gil Tene, CTO of Azul Systems, discusses their pauseless garbage collector. In this interview, he explains the pauseless collection algorithm. Where Do You Want to Be in Five Years? http://www.artima.com/articles/where_do_you_want_to_be_in_five_years.html Sean Landis, author of Agile Hiring, discusses how to ask interview questions that "break through the castle walls" so you can get useful information from candidates. The Next Big JVM Language http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2010_the_next_big_jvm_lang_stephen_colebourne.html At the JavaOne 2010 conference in San Francisco, Stephen Colebourne, member of technical staff at OpenGamma and project lead of the Joda Time open source API, gave a talk entitled "The Next Big JVM Language." In this short interview, he reveals what he thinks the next big language could be. What's New in Scala 2.8: Named and Default Parameters http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/named_and_default_parameters_in_scala.html The third installment of a series of articles on the latest Scala release, Scala 2.8, Jon Pretty describes Scala 2.8's support for named and default parameters.