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IoC feedback

Posted by daniel on February 14, 2005 at 10:34 AM EST

Response to a Feature article

In today's Weblogs , Ken Ramirez posts feedback to his IoC article. He writes " If you haven't read the article yet, go ahead and read it and then read this blog. You won't regret it. I was actually contacted by Howard Lewis Ship himself, and he had some strong words to say about the article. Read this blog if you're interested in the details. "

I give Ken a lot of credit because Howard's blog did not have much positive to say about the article Ken wrote and I edited. Among other points, Howard notes "dependency injection is an important component of IoC, but inversion of control also includes life cycle issues well beyond connecting collaborating services". I take responsibility for much of this and need to move HiveMind up the list of things I want to play with some time.

In other blog postings, John Mitchell notes " Embellish is NOT a four letter word. Embellish your way to learning and coding success." James Todd reports that JXTA :: ext:config explained . This enables "flexibly configuring JXTA with ease."

In Also in Java Today , Neville Ridley-Smith has passed on links to transcript and audio from James Gosling's recent trip to Sydney. You've heard Gosling say much of this before, but the transcript does provide a much more complete report than the few excerpts here or there that you've seen in news reports.

Eclipse is a hugely popular IDE for Java development, but it's so much more than that. The plug-in based architecture of Eclipse offers many possibilities for customization and, as Emmanuel Proulx notes, many points of entry for plug-in developers: "some Eclipse users will want to customize it. Some will develop tools for their company's employees. Some will want to sell tools that connect to their products. Some will want to resell Eclipse under another name with these tools pre-installed." In Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 1: A First Glimpse, he describes the basic architecture of Eclipse and how to start building your own plug-ins.

In Projects and Communities, the Web Services and XML Community home page notes the W3C's call for participation in a public workshop to create a working group for developing more powerful tools and greater automation using semantic web technologies , to be held June 9-10 in Innsbruck, Austria.

In tomorrow's Java Live chat Scott Violet and Chet Haase will answer your questions about Getting High Performance from Your Desktop Client. Bring your questions for Scott and Chet and click on the online client February 15, 2005 11:00 A.M. PST/19:00 UTC.

Kelly O'Hair follows up on Debugging JNI exception failures in today's Forums . "It isn't clear to me that when this error is detected that the current stack trace is what you want. I assume you want the stack trace when the exception was thrown, not when this error condition was detected. I could be wrong. I'll try and check with one of the VM engineers on what can be done."

Tackline follows on super() first in a constructor saying "The really useful thing to be able to do is set up member variables before calling the super. Self-encapsulation and template methods can cause havoc. Unfortunately this change would cause incompatibility and done reasonably would not allow explicit or implicit reference to 'this' in initialisation expressions (for instance, anonymous inner class expressions)."

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