Last week I spent way too much time integrating Apache Wicket and Google Guice. Yikes! The most difficult part for me was getting the initialization to happen in the right order. A big Thank You to Dan Retzlaff on the Wicket list for helping work through these details. The details below were applied to a Wicket quickstart project for Wicket 6.0.0. Design Decisions It was important to me to keep the application tier separate from web tier. I actually maintain each in a separate repository. I have several motivations for this, such as:......
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The information below was delivered to one of my programmers as direction for how to implement a rather big change in an existing software product that I sell. I thought it was potentially useful to a broader audience, so I’m posting it here: …The rest of this is rather complicated to explain online. I’ll do my best. I’m going to look at this in a simplistic way and let you work through the details. First imagine that we have an Authorize.net processing class based largely on their API. class AuthnetProcessAIMPayment { protected $apiKey;......
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How frameworks came to be Engineers have a few potentially conflicting tendencies that can become very pronounced in the software they write. One tendency is that we’re empire builders. In other words, we build, enhance, improve and in other ways expand the scope of our software solutions over time. Not to mention that we want our solution to be accepted, embraced and adored as the best possible solution for the problem we set out to solve. The result of this tendency can be seen in the ever growing, ever more complex frameworks available......
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