Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
This sounds interesting – Structural Analysis for Java.
This is a code analysis tool that analyzes code structure and architecture and then recommends suggested refactoring to avoid common ‘antipatterns’.
I haven’t had time to download it yet, but it sounds like it would be worth checking out.
It would be interesting to know if it picks up on Bruce Tate’s Antipatterns from his book, Bitter Java:
IBM have a good article on their Developerworks site discussing the shortcomings of the current Java Virtual Machince Memory model and what needs to be changed in order to make it more predicable in some circumstances.
The major issues described in the article are problems related to synchronized access to data, and compiler reordering of statements which may cause unexpected side effects.
Since the introduction of ‘feature-light’ J2ME for mobile/small devices, Sun is becoming concerned that vendors are adding many proprietary extensions to the API and hence breaking the ‘write once, run anywhere’ promise.
Vendors have been adding additional APIs to add additional hardware support options – the problem is that code written to take advantage of these specific features will not run on a platform that does not have the additional features.
Sun is therefore going to start a ‘Verification Programme’ to certify core features on J2ME supporting devices to ensure a certain degree of standardization in Java supporting devices.
I came across a link to this blog this morning from www.javablogs.com, and read an article listing ideas for development projects.
I though this was interesting as this is something that I also do on a regular basis – every time I have a ‘wouldn’t it be cool if I had an app that could do xyz’ I keep track of it in my PDA. Some ideas I get round to implementing, others I don’t, but it’s interesting to keep track of ideas like these.
Plus, the name of the guys blog was just so funny I had to link to it here: ‘BadMagicNumber’ (this probably doesn’t make any sense unless you have seen this exception yourself 😉