Top Five Reasons to Try Java 8
Java 8 is a substantial improvement over Java 7. Here are Java developer John Shepard’s top five favorite features.
TechCast #45 – SpringSource’s Ben Alex on Roo, a Java-based agile framework
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Ben Alex carved out some time to talk to me about the SpringSource Roo project, a very interesting and different take on Convention over Configuration Frameworks. All of the major prior frameworks seem to use dynamic and meta-programming tricks to get work done. Ben’s team focused on taking advantage of the Java platform, and hence … Read More