Calum Shaw-Mackay's Weblog http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=calum Artima Weblogs is a community of bloggers posting on a wide range of topics of interest to software developers. Artima.com http://www.artima.com/images/artima88x33.gif http://www.artima.com/ Technorati Claim http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=129305 N/A Dependency Injection and Jini Configurations http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=124505 Okay this came from a little idea I had last night for Neon, and from a bit of playing around with those ideas - dependency injection from Jini configuration files. Introducing Neon http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=100779 So here's my pitch. I've been working on a grid system using Jini and mobile agents, for about 12-18 months, and now I'm nearly ready to release it as a Jini.org project. Here's a bit of an overview to Neon's features and capabilities. J2EE, Enlightenment and the way forward http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=97589 I really can't care about EJB3 and J2EE. In emphasis, not that I shouldn't care about J2EE, but that practically, even spiritually, I can't care about J2EE - apathy is a terrifying thing Comparative Studies — the rods we hit each other with? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=77621 Sounds a bit extreme? Some companies seem to live and breathe benchmarks, responses to studies, and responses to responses. Isn't it time we realised what benchmarks are really about and stopped it all getting out of hand. Building J2SE5.0-enabled Jini services in a mixed VM environment http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=74045 Yes, J2SE 5.0 is out, and as much as we all would like to use it, we know that there are some things that just won't happen over night - such as mass adoption by Appserver vendors,etc. But if you are willing to make a small compromise you can use J2SE5.0 in the guts of your code, but also let it play nicely with your 1.4 environment. Hungry Disks: Storage but no files! http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=71607 Anyone who has read David Gelernter's The Second Coming: A Manifesto, will have heard of the concept of filesystems that grab the data they want and categorise files based on their content. But how near is the reality of Content Based Data Stores (CBDS) The problem with installers.... http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=70326 ....is that they either try to do too much (but end up doing very little of what you actually want), or they're so miniscule there isn't one. Of IDEs and Men http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=47952 It always seems that developers are more willing to agree on music, one of the most diverse forms of self-expression available, than they are to agree on their development environments The Great Theoretical Architecture http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=46738 After reading many texts, both in print and online and many discussions on the Internet a realisation slowly crept over me Is Distribution really that bad? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=44530 In my inaugural weblog entry here on Artima, I question whether the logic about the First Law of Distributed Computing is really that relevant now.