Came across this start up - PAW.
I must congratulate Mr. Rajat Gupta for venturing into software products. The product space is very empty with almost every one else wanting to start one more web2.0 website with no real revenue generation capabilites!
Coming to PAW 1.0 - as the name indicates this is a work bench to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Posted in blog city on May 28th 2004 
In JDK1.5, a new class ProcessBuilder has been added to java.lang package. This class should be used to execute OS specific commands. Prior to JDK1.5, developers use Runtime.exec to execute any OS specific commands.
I looked at the source code of Runtime.exec in JDK1.5, and it internally uses ProcessBuilder. The [...]

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Posted in blog city on July 12th 2004 
Mike Spille wrote his opinions on unit testing and JUnit in his recent blogs. Read some of them here and here. As is the case with any post, there are many points I agree and quite a few that I disagree. As a disclaimer, I am not a die hard [...]

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Posted in blog city on May 19th 2005  
There is a recent thread at serverside on client side session management using hidden form elements. Having architected and implemented similar solutions quite some time back in past, here’s my take on this -
1. This approach works well if the session data is not huge. In my experience, the amount [...]

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Posted in blog city on July 13th 2005 
One of the problems I face is related to javadoc. Most of the people would agree that the documentation of any code does not match with the functionality of the code. This could be due to various reasons, ranging from developer discipline to lack of time to update documentation. [...]

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