he UML association is a concept that is often misunderstood. The most common misperception is that an association is the same as a pointer, or maybe two pointers, in a
he problem with developing enterprise applications is you have to reinvent the wheel for each key area, such as configuration, database access, or security. Microsoft has addressed this problem in
ccording to Clemens Szyperski (author of “Component Software?Beyond Object-Oriented Programming,”), software components are binary units of independent production, acquisition, and deployment that interact to form a functioning system. He continues
n a UML class model, classes are described by having attributes, operations, and relationships with other classes. When such a model is converted into code, both the public attributes and
ecently, I was talking with a Java developer who was fairly new to the SAP world but claimed to already be an ABAP expert. He was commenting on the ABAP
ometimes runtime performance requirements determine which programming language I use. For flat out runtime performance, I have always found that natively compiled Common Lisp or C++ really do the trick.
t was the final night of the SD West conference in Santa Clara, CA, as attendees wandered the hotel, seeking the locations of the different BOF (bird of a feather)
t’s time again to open up your developer’s toolbox and make room for the new must-have tool, virtual machines. As a software consultant, I find myself traveling from customer to
ervice Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an increasingly common buzzword in today’s industry. The benefits of a Web services-oriented framework are well appreciated, but not always well-understood. Enterprises planning to convert