Any nontrivial software project contains a nontrivial amount of so-called business logic. What exactly constitutes business logic is debatable. In the mountains of code produced for a typical software ...

Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

Many Jave enterprise applications require processing to be executed in a context separate from that of the main system. In many cases, these backend processes perform several tasks, with some tasks ...