Links: 28-07-2007

• epesi - it is an "lightweight PHP/AJAX based framework for development of database driven web applications". Seems to be quite interesting, so why not to try it?
• In defense of Design Patterns, Rethinking Design Patterns - notes about books "Desing Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", "A Pattern Language" and testability of code (how to improve it),
• Reflections on Java Reflection, Trail: The Reflection API, Java programming dynamics, Part 2: Introducing reflection - notes and tutorials about Java Reflection API and several examples.

Links: 27-07-2007

• What happened to object databases?, Debate: ODBMS sometimes a better alternative to O/R Mapping? - discussion about object databases and why or why not use them. OODBMS is quite young (since '95) and comparison it to RDBMS (which is quite old) is rather unfair. I've sometimes used OODBMS, but this was on my own (not in commercial world) and I think they are very intresting, so why not try to use them?,
• Top Ten Must Read Books for the Java Developer - worth reading this and worth reading all mentioned books. So let's read it :),
• Integrating Struts 2 + JSF + Facelets - simple way of integrating mentioned technologies,
• Dynamic and static languages are fighting again - this is distillation of interesting discussion about "fighting" between dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, PHP and other) and static languages (Java, C/C++/C# and other).