Oliver Drotbohm is a software architect and Java expert focused on Spring, modular application design, and improving software maintainability. He shares insights through blogs, tools like jMolecules, and conference talks.
63 articles from this blog
A presentation about the Hades project was given at the Java User Group Karlsruhe, following an introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming.
A developer details a Java compiler bug with generic type inference in static factory methods and provides a workaround.
Spring 3.0 M1 is now available in Maven repositories, addressing initial release feedback.
A developer's personal recap and impressions from attending the Devoxx 2008 technology conference, covering talks on Scala, Java performance, Spring, and REST.
Announcement of Hades 0.3, an open-source project release featuring a new EclipseLink-based DAO implementation and package refactorings.
A developer's preview of attending the Devoxx conference, including plans to present on the Hades project and share daily updates.
A 2008 article comparing REST web services to the Spring framework, highlighting their shared principles of simplicity and real-world influence.
Announcement of upcoming talks on Hades, a Java persistence library, at various developer conferences and user groups.
Explores the conceptual role of metadata in Java EE development, comparing annotations vs. XML and discussing separation of concerns.
A technical blog post introducing a minimal Java plugin system using Spring, focusing on PluginRegistry and dynamic plugin discovery.
Announcing the release of Hades 0.2, a JPA and Spring-based library for domain class and DAO development.
Fixing a duplicate key error in Trac 0.10.3 when importing SVN history due to path length limits in the database index.
Discusses validation strategies for domain objects and DTOs in software design, using user registration as an example.
A developer discusses a pragmatic approach to bug fixing using test cases, emphasizing the importance of verifiable bug reproduction in version control.
A summary of the SpringOne 2008 keynote on the Spring Source Application Platform, focusing on OSGi for enterprise application challenges.
A developer's summary of day one at SpringOne 2008, covering talks, IDE integration, a classloader issue, and licensing for the Spring Source Application Platform.
A summary of a talk on advanced Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) concepts, including practical examples using Hibernate and JDBC.
Overview of EclipseLink's high-performance JPA features for Spring, including caching, query hints, and database state history.
A summary of a talk by Spring JDBC lead Thomas Risberg on performance tuning for data access in Spring applications, covering JDBC, transactions, and ORM configuration.
Summary of Jürgen Höller's SpringOne 2008 talk on Spring 2.5 features and a preview of the upcoming Spring 3.0 release.
