Recently Paul Holser (http://cleveralias.blogs.com/) and I published an article on ANTLR (http://www.devx.com/semantic/Article/35973). We have been using ANTLR a bunch at work to create Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and parse text. ANTLR is really powerful and really cool, but takes a little practice to become effective with. This article illustrates the most effective [...]
Day 3 of JavaOne for me was basically “modularity” day. I went to a variety of sessions including OSGi, the Java Module System, and Jason Van Zyl’s talk on converting a large Ant project to Maven. I was amazed to see all of the different approaches to modularity that are being pursued in [...]
Day 2 of JavaOne was much more down to earth then the first day. The hype of day 1 has faded slightly and I spent most of the day in technical sessions. I did attend the Oracle General Session but wasn’t impressed with the trends they identified: Java EE 5, SOA, Web 2.0, [...]
I arrived last night into San Francisco for this week’s JavaOne conference. This is my first time to attend JavaOne and I have so far been impressed by the organization of the conference and the quality of the sessions. This morning’s general sessions felt a little like a rock concert but there was [...]