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hi every body, I am just just running a poll about which java stack  are you using ? and any comments are welcome ! [poll id="2"] have a nice weekend

Image via Wikipedia I think so... You think in java but write in groovy that is quite freaky/weird.

this is the first 5 days of the new year, Although 2008 has brought lots of changes to me, 2009 seems more promising.

Image via Wikipedia Annotations have changed every thing and lots of version updates/upgrades are made just to support them. Yes they have developers to get rid of lots of xml schemas and files at the same time,"Annotations have been more successful than XML" But are those XML files really bad ?

Many of you might remember at the spring 1.2.X series there is a strong voice like: easy,quick configurations and implementations with spring Yes in fact that was totally true. It really used POJOs as bean containers. And it works really fine. While using these spring versions you did not usually need to make any import statements for any spring package/class/interface sample classes below were shown as best practices:

Image via Wikipedia Since SpringSource acquires the Grails I was willing to test this framework and make a dummy project but first I should read some books:)

Image via Wikipedia Do not use the method for in your frequently used methods. instead of creating new instances use Calendar.setTime(DATE) otherwise each instance use lots of memory: ...

I found it very interesting that these two methods are not working same :( SELECT add_months(TO_DATE('28-FEB-2007'), 1) FROM dual = 31-MAR-2007 while java.util.Calendar c=..//28-FEB-2007 c.add(Calendar.MONTH,1); // gives 28-MAR-2007 which one ...

Image by Neil T via Flickr I have been developing java application for more then 6 years. Most of these years I have used and evaluated open source projects. Here I'll try to explain my open source java stack.

Image via Wikipedia Maven profiles enable your pom to build your project with different build options . Here I tried to overwrite some default configuration files with profile specific configuration