Increased compile-time safety with phantom types

Introduction Using phantom types is a very simple technique that can be used to increase the compile-time safety of code.…

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Advanced ZK: Asynchronous UI updates and background processing – part 2

Introduction In part 1 I showed how server push and threads can be used to execute background tasks in a…

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Advanced ZK: Asynchronous UI updates and background processing – part 1

Asynchronous UI updates are very useful, because they typically improve the responsiveness, usability and the general feel of user interfaces.…

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Spring vs Guice: The one critical difference that matters

Spring objects are recognized based on their names It doesn’t matter whether you use XML or Java config, a Spring…

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Java pitfalls: Field access in inner classes

This is not a “pitfall” per se, but an implementation detail worth knowing. Let’s say I have a inner class…

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ZK Web Framework Thoughts

I’ve been asked several times to present some of my opinions about ZK. So, based of my experience of 4…

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