As we’ve done more and more EJB development, we’ve had to think pretty hard about how to unit test our beans. We’ve tried a couple of different approaches (including not testing, which I don’t recommend ;), but weren’t ever just real comfortable with the results. I’m pretty happy with the method we’re using now, and it’s so simple, I’m a bit embarrassed that we didn’t think of it earlier. (more…)

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Jamey Wood and Shreedhar Ganapathy of GlassFish fame asked me some time ago if I would be interested in filling out a questionnaire describing my company’s use of GlassFish. I finally got the questionnaire completed and turned back in, allowing Jamey and Shreedhar to finish up the article, which is now posted here. We’ve been using GlassFish in production since, if I recall correctly, March of last year, well before Java EE 5 went “final.” We’ve been very happy with it, so this piece was a nice way of giving back to a community of developers and users that have helped us a lot over the past year.

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Some of you may have noticed an extended outage of this site for most of last week. It appears that my provider was having NFS issues which, to my knowledge, are ongoing. They told me they were watching my server hoping it would stabilize, all the while all I wanted was a functional site. I finally got them to move me to another server, and things appear to be back to normal. So, dear reader, I apologize for any inconvenience that might have caused either of you. Believe me, no one was more irritated than I.

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