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Architecture Council/Links Collection
A collection of interesting links to articles, blogs and other resources related to software architecture. Please add your name when you add an item, for discussions.
Contents
Patterns
- The Dependency Injection Pattern: an alternative to Factories and Service Locators (Blog by Michael Scharf). See also Introduction to the Spring Framework (article by Rod Johnson) for a discussion of IoC and DI.
Concurrency
- Threads considered Harmful Blog (found by David Orme)
- Erlang, Functional Java, Scala and others on E4 Mailing list (David Orme)
- Java Concurrency in Practice contains an excellent treatment of the issues. In a dynamic environment such as OSGi you need to be aware of the rules surrounding things such as visibility, safe publication etc.
- The Problem with Threads by Edward A. Lee Often cited article explaining the problems of threading today.
- Concurrency: Past and Present by Brian Goetz -- A 1h presentation on Concurrency in Java.
Eclipse Concurrency
- Don't have code run in the context of the Java Classloader (bugzilla comment by John Arthorne)
Java Idioms
- Java.net.URL.equals() and hashCode() make blocking internet connections (Blog by Michael Scharf)
- Don't swallow InterruptedException. Call Thread.currentThread().interrupt() instead. (Blog by Michael Scharf)
Tips & Tricks
- Ninja - Eclipse Debugging Tips
- Debug and patch a runtime Eclipse (Blog by Michael Scharf)
Eclipse Foundation
Outside of the Eclipse Ecosystem
- Microsoft's patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Project for .NET