The two leaders in the Java AOP space have announced they are merging their efforts and their projects to produce a combined AOP framework for Java.
AspectJ 5 will the the next version that will comprise of the two combined projects.
Blogging webservice
Dave Johnson (one of the Roller weblog developers has an interesting article about the development of a Weblogging client, BlogClient1.0, that interacts with most of the main popular blogging systems via a Web Services API.
Something I hadn’t considered, but I should check out sometime for my BBWeblog webapp (on which this blog is running).
Book summary – “Debugging the Development Process” by Steve Maguire
I’ve posted a summary of the excellent book “Debugging the Development Process” by Steve Maguire, to my Book Summaries section.
This is an excellent book, recommended reading for any team/project lead, and also well worthwhile for any developer who wants to understand how they can work more effectively in a project environment (“Work smarter, not harder”).
I particularly like the main gist of this book, that so much time and effort is wasted on projects on “misguided effort”. A project/team can be made to be far more effective if the main goal is identified and held as the number 1 priority. I have seen this time and time again on projects – people get sidetracked off onto issues, either administrative or other non-essential development tasks, that do not contribute to the main goal in any way. An effective team/project lead needs to keep the teams focus, and shield the team from non-essential tasks.
Getting started with JMX
Sun have a good article on Getting Started with Java Management Extensions (JMX) on their site, giving a good overview of the technology, how it is architected, how it is used. There is also a brief section giving an overview of the JMX implementation in J2SE 1.5