Design | Andy Gibson

Deterring “ToMany” Relationships in JPA models

Andy Gibson Articles

This article considers the issues of one to many relationships from the JPA model, and looks at an alternative strategy to provide more efficient and fine grained data access, to build more robust and lightweight applications and web services.

Make a flexible architecture now, perfect it later.

Andy Gibson Articles

Your Architecture Sucks and I Don’t Care ignited a bit of a flame war as such topics usually do. On one hand I can see the benefits of good architecture, but on the other, this must be weighed against the real goal of software which is to either generate revenue or perform some necessary task. […]

Considering Thick Client Javascript Applications

Andy Gibson Articles

A post on Javalobby (Are Serverside Web Frameworks Becoming Irrelevant?) got me thinking again about javascript based web apps also called SOFEA or SOUI applications. While I don’t believe that the end is near for server side frameworks, (after all a similar post was written 3 years ago), I think it there is a growing […]

Conversational CRUD in Java EE 6

Andy Gibson Tutorials

This tutorial will demonstrate a pattern for creating CRUD applications in JSF and Java EE 6. While this is not the only way of implementing this mechanism, it does promote re-use and can give you essentially zero code CRUD pages requiring just the view code. The goal is to provide a single structure that provides […]

CDI Conversations Part 1

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This is the first in a series of articles looking at the conversation scope introduced in CDI as part of Java EE 6. We’ll start by looking at existing scopes and how they introduce limitations for developers and how CDI conversations get around these limitations.

The key to being a good programmer

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One blog topic that never seems to get old is what makes a good programmer, or how to be a good programmer, or what you can do to be a better programmer. The same activities are often listed as being the path to successful codesmithing, when really it is just the method by which the […]