Optimize the client for the server’s sake

The Story Once upon a time there was an application that was running on some server and the client functionality…

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The Little Architect

Uncle Bob published recently an article titled “A Little Architecture“. The article is a conversation between a young developer and…

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Creating proxy object using djcproxy

During the last weeks I have shown how to create a proxy object using Java reflection API and cglib. In…

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Creating a proxy object using cglib

In the previous post I was talking about the standard Java based proxy objects. These can be used when you…

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Java Dynamic Proxy

Proxy is a design pattern. We create and use proxy objects when we want to add or modify some functionality…

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Value types in Java: why should they be immutable?

Value types need not be immutable. But they are. In the previous post I discussed the difference between pointers and…

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Pointers in Java

Are there pointers in Java? The short answer is “no, there are none” and this seems to be obvious for…

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Do Not Create DSL for the Customer

Domain Specific Language (DSL) solutions are many times created with the intent to give a tool to the hands of…

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Do we need coding conventions?

There are things that just come natural and we forget to wonder if it could be some other way. It…

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