Iconoclastically, Bien claims that most of the established J2EE and Gang of Four (GoF) patterns are no longer relevant for today's enterprise developers. He advocates for a continuous development ...

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A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...