I blogged earlier about how the component marketplaces for Delphi and .NET make the Java equivalent look virtually non-existent. In looking for someone or something to blame, some may point to the ...

This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for comprehensive ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

Aiming at the Java components market, Quest Software Inc. has released Quest JClass ServerViews 5.0, a set of server-side Java components for adding charts and reports to servlet, JSP and J2EE ...

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...

Service component architecture (SCA) is a good thing, right? Isn't it supposed to elevate SOA-ish things above Java and all that other those other bothersome languages with their own protocols, ...