Friday, February 01, 2008
iBATIS, Spring AOP, AJAX and Other Tools in MTL User/Machine Management System. Jonathan Slate from the Microsystems Technology Lab gave an overview of the evolving MTL User/Machine Management System, highlighting the use of a variety of tools including iBATIS for object-relational mapping, Spring AOP for managing transactions and auditing, and Yahoo!'s YUI for DHTML stuff. We didn't really end up covering DWR for AJAX or Apache Commons Configuration for managing user preferences.
Wednesday, 11/28/2007
Java Compiler Plug-ins. Matthew Papi from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) gave us a demonstration of compiler plug-ins developed in CSAIL that detect null pointer errors, equality testing errors, and mutability errors at compile time, as well as a framework that permits programmers to write new plug-ins to check other properties. More information can be found on the JSR 308 Type-checkers and Framework page. You can also view the slides from the presentation in PDF format.
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