Rocket Surgery

Are unit tests and unit testing on the decline?  Here is an interesting blog post that discusses this very question.

My $0.02:  Read the rest of this entry »

This past week I burned up dozens of hours trying to make JBoss AOP work in my .WAR file.  Then I realized that I didn’t have to.

I have this application that is a WAR file full of web services.  What I wanted to do was create an aspect that I could weave in to gather usage statistics on every web service called — the user, the amount of time spent, whether it was successful or not, that sort of thing — and write it to a table for analysis and reporting.  Since we use JBoss as our application and web server (and a paid support contract), I decided to try JBoss AOP which is bundled with the Enterprise Application Platform.

So, I wrote my aspect, and started trying to hook it in.  Man, what an ordeal. Read the rest of this entry »