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A collection of interesting links to articles, blogs and other resources related to software architecture.
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== Patterns ==
* [http://michaelscharf.blogspot.com/2006/09/dependency-injection-pattern.html The Dependency Injection Pattern: an alternative to Factories and Service Locators] (Blog by Michael Scharf).  See also [http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=SpringFramework Introduction to the Spring Framework] (article by Rod Johnson) for a discussion of IoC and DI.

== Concurrency ==
* [http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2008/08/threads-considered-harmful-for-same.html Threads considered Harmful] Blog (found by David Orme)
* [http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev/msg00608.html Erlang, Functional Java, Scala and others] on E4 Mailing list (David Orme)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz/dp/0321349601/ 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.
* [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf The Problem with Threads by Edward A. Lee] Often cited article explaining the problems of threading today.
* [http://www.infoq.com/presentations/goetz-concurrency-past-present Concurrency: Past and Present by Brian Goetz] -- A 1h presentation on Concurrency in Java. Brian shows a very simple example and how difficult it is to get concurrency done correctly. If you think threading is easy -- listen to this talk... If you are interested in alternatives and future skip the first 30 min (the 30 min are just showing why threading (using locks) is difficult).
* [http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=554 Real-world Concurrency by Bryan Cantrill and Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems] -- an insightful ACM Queue article: ''we hope to inject some calm reality (if not some hard-won wisdom) into a discussion that has too often descended into hysterics'' (quote).

=== Eclipse Concurrency ===
* [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245573#c12 Don't have code run in the context of the Java Classloader] (bugzilla comment by John Arthorne)

== Java Idioms ==
* [http://michaelscharf.blogspot.com/2006/11/javaneturlequals-and-hashcode-make.html Java.net.URL.equals() and hashCode() make blocking internet connections] (Blog by Michael Scharf)
* [http://michaelscharf.blogspot.com/2006/09/dont-swallow-interruptedexception-call.html Don't swallow InterruptedException. Call Thread.currentThread().interrupt() instead.] (Blog by Michael Scharf)

== Design Guidelines ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter Law of Demeter] (Principle of Least Knowledge)
* [http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/srp.pdf Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)]

== Eclipse Tips & Tricks ==
* [[Ninja]] - Eclipse Debugging Tips
* [http://michaelscharf.blogspot.com/2006/10/tip-debug-and-patch-at-runtime.html Debug and patch a runtime Eclipse] (Blog by Michael Scharf)

== Eclipse Foundation ==
* [[Eclipse/API Central]]
* [[Development Resources]]
* [http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/minutes.php Board and Members Meeting Minutes]

== Outside of the Eclipse Ecosystem ==
* Microsoft's [http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/09/02/patterns-practices-app-arch-guide-2-0-project.aspx patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Project] for .NET
* [http://stackoverflow.com/ Stackoverflow.com] - Questions and Answers for everything related to programming
* [http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/open-source-community-simplified/ Open Source Community, Simplified] - Article by Bugzilla's Max Kanat-Alexander on open source community building.

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