Johannes Brodwall

Johannes Brodwall has been playing around with computers for as long as he can remember, and was obsessively fascinated by dot matrix printers at the age of six. He has been working as a programmer and software architect since 1998. Johannes is currently lead Java architect at BBS, the company that operates Norway's banking infrastructure. At BBS, he helps select Java technologies and train developers in these technologies. In his spare time, Johannes likes to learn esoteric languages like Ruby and Modern Standard Arabic. He lives in Oslo, Norway, with his wife Sarah and bulldog Ada Mae.

Articles

Embedded Integration Testing of Web Applications
Test first means, well, test first. But with web applications, there's a great deal of installation and configuration you have to do before you can even test. Couldn't that be slimmed down a bit, so developers can get testing sooner? Johannes Brodwall shows how to combine some popular pieces to create a simpler container for testing your web apps sooner. Apr. 12, 2007

Lazy Loading is Easy: Implementing a Rich Domain Model
Lazy loading--not fetching data until it's needed--is an approach that gets a lot of developers nodding their heads in agreement, even if they don't actually try implementing it themselves. But as Johannes Broadwall reports, it's not hard to do, and conveys some genuine benefits. Jul. 18, 2006

Unit Testing Hibernate Mapping Configurations
Hibernate's use of mapping files to define object-relational mappings means that these files are as much a part of your program as the Java code... and sometimes they don't work. Johannes Brodwall shows how you can apply unit testing techniques to test and verify your Hibernate mappings. Oct. 11, 2005

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