Category: J2EE

J2EE Java

WSAD doesn’t suck so much after all

The last couple of weeks have been very interesting, as I was in the last stages of a project at work. I no longer hate WSAD (Websphere Studio Application Developer) so much. I still find a lot of missing features from the latest Eclipse releases (WSAD is based on Eclipse 2.x), but I found the […]

Guillermo Castro 
IDE J2EE Java

Why I dislike Websphere

At work, I’ve been working on a project that uses Websphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1. Part of the development setup is to use Websphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) 5.1, because it is tightly integrated with WAS. One of the problems this represents is that WSAD 5.1 is based on Eclipse 2.1.3. After working with Eclipse […]

Guillermo Castro 
J2EE Java

Entity Engines for Java

I’ve been reading the documentation for Ofbiz, an "open source enterprise automation software project". Basically the project provides almost everything you need to create an ERP, a CRM or whatever Enterprise application you want. One of the most interesting concepts they implement is the Entity Engine. In a nutshell, the engine allows you to deal […]

Guillermo Castro