Clean the mess with XStream

Writing clean, isolated and efficient unit test is often a challenge for developers. Efficient test should cover all the possible business scenarios. To create test for covering multiple test scenarios, you need more test data. [Read More]
Tags: unit-testing

Thinking Performance

Have you ever spent days rewriting the whole application burning the midnight oil? Well, I don’t think you are the only one. In early days of my career I also made similar mistakes or was a victim of mistakes made by fellow developers. Having taken this roller coaster ride, spending... [Read More]
Tags: apm, performance-tuning, database

Query the Future with CEP

Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a buzzword that’s been running around the industry for last couple of years. The concept was introduced by David Luckham of Stanford University who has done over a decade of research in this field. Let’s try to understand some terms that are used frequently in... [Read More]
Tags: esper, cep

Beauty of Spring Batch

Spring source community is coming up with spring batch 2.0 in Q2-2009. Spring batch is the first java based framework for batch processing. I think the decades of experience of Accenture in enterprise batch processing really helped for defining the use cases. [Read More]
Tags: spring-batch, enterprise-integration

Mate vs Cairngorm

I’ve recently been comparing frameworks for Flex event handling. We are already using Mate in one of our projects. I encountered couple of problems in the usage and thought of exploring other frameworks available on the shelf. [Read More]
Tags: flex, mate, maven