In Relation To

The release candidate of JBoss Tools is now available at sourceforge for Linux, Windows and Mac.

To celebrate the new release of JBoss Tools, I'm going to walk through some of the features of JBoss Tools that are interesting to Seam developers.

While there are many things I like about the Java language, the lack of unsigned types has always bothered me.

Matt Raible lists his picks of the top web frameworks for deploying on the JVM:

So, I've been following this discussion with interest. I'm still confused. All I'm really getting out of the comments on this thread is: there's some other objects in the system that aren't DAOs or entities. But I knew that already. Clearly, I need to actually read the damn book for myself. Still, it really doesn't fill me with confidence that people who /have/ read the book don't seem to be able to explain (in words or code) the Repository notion coherently. And it looks like everyone has their own private take on what exactly a Repository is all about. This gives me a hint that the idea is not especially well-defined.

Well, this post really brought out the crazies. Folks told me that I don't know what an object is, called me ignorant twice, quoted Alan Kay at me, and accused me of being a C programmer. :-)

I've recently read the book Domain Driven Design, which apparently is now the new bible for some folks who totally think in objects. I even mentioned it in HiA and JPwH - unfortunately I didn't read it before.

Kinda tangentially related to this discussion, I'm often asked whether I believe in rich domain models or anemic domain models. I guess I'm pretty much ignorant as to what these terms really mean, since I've never seen a proper definition of either term.

Somehow, this silliness got linked by InfoQ. It's not really worth the effort of fisking this post, but I'm bored so I'll go ahead and do it anyway.

Two weeks ago I presented Seam at Grails eXchange in London. This presentation was recorded, unfortunately without the slides in the visible frame: