http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog nuts and bolts of software development, and anything else that comes to my mind - by Magnus Jungsbluth Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:33:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most Java standards are implemented using an api jar and an concrete implementation jar. The API constists maninly of interfaces but a class that looks up the default implementation. This lookup normally happens by trying to load a specific resource bundle which is located in the implementation jar. This can ... http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog/2009/07/18/having-fun-with-jsr-303-beans-validation-and-osgi-spring-dm/ Eclipse Galileo is out a while and it ships with TMF XText 0.7 (formerly openArchitectureWare XText). Amongst other things it contains scoping of references, which I really like and especially the ability to serialize your model back to its text representation without comments being lost. This is especially convenient if you ... http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog/2009/07/12/serializing-xtext-models/ In a typical spring based server application there is a service layer responsible for infrastructure tasks and communication with the clients. Service methods can be long running and execution would normally block the user-interface. Putting the client side end of the call in a thread solves the blocking but ... http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog/2009/07/07/detached-service-methods-with-spring-aop/ Recently a colleague asked me if model driven software development (MDSD if you like acronyms) is really faster than traditional development. The question is hard to answer because that really depends on the specific set of tools you use, the abilities of your team and so on. Although development time ... http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog/2008/08/03/is-model-driven-development-faster/ How often have you found yourself recording a screencast annoyed by the fact that only the mouse is visible? I haven't seen any screen recording software that provided an easy way to display shortcuts on screen as you type. Most of the fancy UI stuff happens in OS X land (see ... http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog/2008/08/01/keypose-flavour-your-screencasts-with-shortcuts/ Since a lot of People have been asking about a successful integration of digital metaphor's wonderful Reportbuilder with RemObjects' DataAbstract I thought it might be a good idea to post what I have been doing to integrate these two in an elegant fashion. Objective Give the end-user access to the full ... http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog/2008/01/22/full-end-user-reporting-with-reportbuilder-and-dataabstract-2/