If it compiles, it is unit tested!

Posted in blog city on May 7th 2004 
A recent blog by Sam Pullara details an innovative mechanism of test coverage. Using AOP to get the list of test cases for a given method seems to be a really coool use of latest technology. However, I do believe there must have been products that offer this functionality of [...]

JSR-175

Posted in blog city on May 13th 2004  
I got some time to spend on the “meta-data/annotations feature” (JSR-175) that is part of JDK1.5. The whole concept of annotations is in general, good. However, to me, the way Java is implementing the concept seems patchy.
Declaring an annotation itself is ackward. Why should one use “an interface with [...]

On Doclipse

Posted in blog city on June 16th 2004  
Cedric has released a new plug in for eclipse called Doclipse.
This is small but very nice utility to have in ones plug in list for eclipse.
However, with introduction of annotations in JDK1.5, I am not sure how many would like to write custom javadoc tags. I expect (and hope) [...]