Recently we have been running some problems while testing distributed applications with JUnit. The main problem was that we were running the client and the server within the same host. Although the test passed because the application logic was correct. Running…

It has been a while since we first heard about compile-time checks with AspectJ at the Java Server Symposium in 2007. Since then we have been using and experimenting with this feature of AOP and…

Earlier this year TIBCO released a new version of their particular implementation of the JMS standard. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 5.0 which, among others, includes some features which I personally consider very interesting.

We’ve recently been involved in an EJB 3 project that uses the ‘Transfer Object’ Design Pattern. For those of you not familiar with it, this pattern came about as a result of the inefficiency of making multiple remote method calls to an EJB 2 Entity Bean.

Yesterday I went to the Google Developer Day in Madrid. I was lucky because some colleagues filled the request form but they were not accepted by Google. A pity because the event was very interesting.

Hudson is a very good Continuous Integration (CI) tool. Though such tools are not new, it clearly sets a higher standard in terms of quality and extensibility compared to first generation CI tools like…

Last week Amazon announced the release of Elastic Block Store (EBS), a block based persistent storage mechanism for EC2. This is very exciting news that will make a huge impact on the adoption of cloud computing and virtualisation in general.