Using Metrics To Help Drive Agile Software

The promise of agile development is to deliver high value software more quickly, while remaining responsive to change. But change tends to cause software rot where simple modifications ripple throughout the application, exercising the design in unexpected ways. Avoiding software rot and maintaining design integrity requires frequent refactoring to ensure code remains clean and concise with minimal dependencies between modules. Code quality and design metrics offer objective advice in identifying areas of the application that are solid candidates for refactoring, while coverage metrics provide the guidance and courage necessary to undertake the refactoring effort.

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Bill Venners on the Future of Java

Interesting discussion at Bill Venners on the Future of Java

Library cache latch contention

Very good explanation from Tom...Includes the importance of using Bind Variables

http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:8856865598761397::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1163635055580

Overpower the PreparedStatement

Importance of using PreparedStatement


http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2002/jw-0125-overpower.html

Design and performance improvements with JDBC 4.0

A good articke by Shashank..on JDBC

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2006/jw-0501-jdbc.html?page=1

Agile Testing: STAF/STAX tutorial

Agile Testing: STAF/STAX tutorial

SQL Injection

Good and useful for the Web Application Developers

http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/sql-injection.html

J2ME Security Architecture

Worth reading this to know about J2ME security architecture

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=433382&seqNum=5&rl=1

j2ME Tutorial

This is nice tutorial for a novice in j2ME

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/02/09/j2me1.html?page=1#introduction

Memory Management in J2ME

This is useful article about Memory Management in J2ME

http://j2me-devcorner.blogspot.com/2007/02/memory-management-in-j2me.html

Useful Open courseware from MIT

All Computer Science Enthus,

Please make use of the open course material from MIT

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm

Reverse Engineering a Data Model

I love this article and clearly explained about the 'Reverse Engineering a Data Model' By Eve

Refer to
http://www.eveandersson.com/writing/data-model-reverse-engineering