Shine Technologies

Technical Articles

• The Three Amigos - Maven, Spring and GWT — how to build a SOA-based system using Spring Services, a GWT client to talk to those services, and Maven 2 as a build tool
• Beauty and the Beast - CruiseControl meets Cobol — Continuous Integration is a well proven process that both gets a new project up and running quickly and provides long-term support and infrastructure - even for legacy Cobol systems.
• Master-Worker with Terracotta Case Study — Shine Technologies distributed one of its applications using Terracotta and achieved significant performance gains.
• Java ME Mobile Phone Applications - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Recently I was asked to develop a mobile phone application for a customer using Java Micro Edition (also known as Java ME, although in the past it's been referred to as J2ME).
• Real-World Experiences With Hibernate — This article is an overview of some of the lessons that we've learnt with Hibernate at Shine. In it we'll share with you our thoughts on Hibernate after using it on a couple of large projects.
• Automatic Value Objects — The Value Object pattern (also known as Transfer Objects) is one of the most well known J2EE patterns. Its intention is to allow efficient client-server data transfer.
• Should We Be Doing More Automated Testing? — This article was posted on JavaWorld on March 7th 2005.
• Unit Testing with Mock Objects — Recently on a medium-sized project I did a lot of work developing unit tests using the 'Mock Objects' pattern. Whilst I had used this pattern before, this was the largest piece of work to-date.

Blogs

• Shine Blog - Main Shine Blog
• Raw Block - Senior Developer Julian Doherty
• Thomas Lee - Shine Developer

General Articles

• Can partnering make you money? — In our world of economic rationalisation is there really any room for something as warm and fuzzy as a true partnership?

Presentations

• Test-Driven Development - A PowerPoint presentation on Test-Driven Development by Senior Developer Ben Teese. Includes a detailed step-by-step example in Java. Also covers how EasyMock and Spring can make testing easier.
• Flex and Rails - A QuickTime movie that demonstrates how Shine has used Flex to build a rich web interface for a Rails application. Includes a demo, overview of Flex and code walk-through.