Google Android

If this http://code.google.com/android/ isn't cool, I have got no clue.

Is Spring Batch Vaporware?

I tried to figure out what Spring Batch can do for a customer. To my surprise I have not found a single source of practical use. No examples that made sense to me. Just a bounch of weird interfaces and some illustrations at the very high level. Could it be that Spring Batch is just Vaporware? That no one really has an idea what it should finally become? Announcements that went out a bit too early? Something like that?

"Selling" Alfresco's CMS

Interview with Matt Asay

Apache Commons Transaction 2.0

Most of the initial implementation work has been done. Interfaces should be more or less stable. Lots of detail work remains.

Testing concurrent software is hard

How to do that.

Concurrency using channels

Here is a Google video about concurrent programming using channels. I wonder if I can make any use it this concept.

Designing a good Java API

Joshua Bloch tells us how and why to write good APIs. I tried to respect what he says in the redesign of Apache Commons Transaction. Let's see if I really did ;)

Finally removed my old blog at JRoller...

... as it never really took off.

Parsing XML with ANTLR

A few years ago I had written a completely confusing article for German computer magazine iX. This is my second try to tell you how to work with ANTLR.

Good software is not enough

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html

Programming Nerd

Howdy!

This is the new technical blog. Here you can find my personal one (in German).