Sun’s Java 1.4 has quietly gone end-of-life since 30 October; see Sun’s Java SE 1.4.2 page:
J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL).
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Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted their billing forms and all [...]

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According to Google Trends SOA is not as “hot” as it was a year ago. According to a recent poll by Finalist [0] at the J-Fall [1] SOA is actually very “not”. Does this mean that companies are already preparing or even using SOA? Or are they abandoning SOA?
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Tomorrow is the start of a new ‘Pro4Pro season’. Pro4Pro sessions are given by some of the best professionals of Logica.
“Extreem RAD : Live Web Applicatie Ontwikkeling met Oracle Application Express”
“Standardizing SOA with Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture”
“Practical Approach to SOA Adoption”

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Guru4Pro Thomas Erl - - ‘How to overcome the key challenges within SOA’.
Date: 20 oktober 2008
On Monday the 20th of October Logica has invited Thomas Erl to speak on the Principles of Service Design and Patterns to transform the most important challenges into a successful realization of a Service Oriented Architecture. Business analyst, functional designers [...]

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This was my last day at JAOO. I was tired, but still looking forward to today’s speakers. It was hard to decide what to attend and what not to attend today. I just had to hope that I’ve chosen correctly.
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I skipped the introduction of today’s program in order to write up my impression of yesterday instead. The long introduction is boring anyway. I already knew which sessions I wished to attend.
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JAOO: An international software development conference with more than 80 speakers, 3 days of presentations, 3 days of tutorials and about 1400 guests. And all of it right here in Aarhus, Denmark, right on top of where I live and work. I was lucky enough to attend last year, and I’ll be attending this year [...]

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Today is the start of a new edition of the Java Masterclass, hosted by Logica IDT Rotterdam. In this masterclass newly joined talents will be trained to equip them with the knowledge and capabilities to ‘fully release their potential’.
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Allright, so you’ve written some code. Now how do you determine that it’s good code? What’s your approach in evaluating the quality of your code? Do you follow some Software Design Principles? Are you aware of some of the Code Smells? Whenever I write some code, I always ask myself questions about the code I’ve [...]

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