With the right incentive, the unattainable can be attained
While fighting the Germans during WW II, General Patton's Army ran out of fuel and came to a halt. With no fuel to advance against the enemy, as a joke, Patton told his Army that they could have a pass (time off). The next day, a portion of Patton's Army was several hundred miles away in Paris. Somehow the soldiers had found fuel....
I recently attended a talk by Dr. Don Batory, on Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering. The goal of generative is to increase the productivity, quality, and reduce time-to-market in software development. [ Who's not trying to do this? Isn't this why Java was invented?]
The part I found most interesting was the discussion on Feature Oriented Programming. For Generative design to...
One developer, 2 modifications
A developer has made 2 modifications, one to a client class, and a second to component classes. The client and component classes are packaged separately, but deployed together. When the developer tries to run the application, a "NoSuchMethodError" exception is thrown.
The "NoSuchMethodError" problem is a common one seen by developers new to Java. The exception...
