The job of the EJB developer is constantly challenging, making the task of designing maintainable and scalable systems difficult without a clear set of best practices to follow. It is with this and ...

With performance optimizations seemingly having lost their relevance in an era of ever-increasing hardware performance, there are still many good reasons to spend some time optimizing code. In a ...

Get an overview of design patterns, then use what you've learned to evaluate whether the Composite pattern is a good choice for a particular Java use case Numerous strategies have been devised to ...

Last month, Embracing Modern C++ Safely was released into the world. The book was written by John Lakos and Vittorio Romeo, with assistance from Rostislav Khlebnikov and Alisdair Meredith. All four ...