Domain Driven Design using Naked Objects

m2eclipse Doxia editor

Just rebuilding Eclipse and thought I'd upgrade to the latest version of m2eclipse. However, it would seem like the latest version has dropped support for the Doxia editor (used for editing APT files), at least while they get ready for a v1.0 release (see this forum posting from Jason ...

Apache Isis Proposal

Over the last few months we've been seriously considering donating both the original Naked Objects framework as well as my sister projects to the Apache Software Foundation, sounding out various people and gauging interest. Today we formally announced a proposal for a new project to be accepted into the ...

Simulating CDI’s Session and Request Scope in a J2SE app

We're currently considering refactoring the Naked Objects framework to use JSR-330 (dependency injection) and EE-oriented big brother, JSR-299 (CDI). Using vanilla JSR-330 is a no-brainer, but there are also some nice features in JSR-299 that we'd like to exploit (such as events and decorators). The snag? The ...

sp__crudparams for CRUD-style stored procs in Sybase ASE

Slight diversion from the norm... Suppose you want to write a CRUD-style sproc, for Sybase ASE. If we were writing for Oracle, we could just use its %ROWTYPE syntax. But Sybase doesn't have anything equivalent. Instead, we'll need to have a set of params matching the columns of ...

Naked Objects MVC is released!

In my book I focus on the open source Java version of Naked Objects, but (as I briefly mention) there is also a commercial version of Naked Objects that runs on .NET. This is developed by Richard Pawson's company, Richard being the originator of the Naked Objects pattern; (Richard ...

Wicket Objects v0.1 … give it a try

Over the last few months I've been plugging away at another sister project for Naked Objects, this time a new web-based viewer built using the Apache Wicket web framework. I reckon it's now in a fit enough state to be tried out more widely, and hopefully find some contributors ...

Pojo Properties Auto Testing

Doing another run of my TDD course, and one of the attendees raised an interesting question: are there any tools to automatically test pojo getters and setters? We couldn't find any, and it sounded like a challenge worth tackling. Now I don't want to get into the debate about whether ...

Groovy Objects, baby!

I was at the SPA conference last week, ostensibly to do a little talk on Naked Objects, but mostly to mix and talk with some cleverer people than me to pick up some new ideas. In a break I was asked whether Naked Objects supported Groovy. To which my answer ...

Project Ideas, Viewer Stories and Wicket

You might (but then again might not) have noticed a couple of new (permanent) pages at the top of this blog. The first lists a number of project ideas for extending Naked Objects, of various sizes. As well as being indicative of the flexibility of the NO framework, I'm also ...

Accessing Domain Services from Entities

A topic that comes around now and again on the DDD newsgroup is how to provide access to a domain service (or a repository) to an entity. This service might be very generic, e.g. a NotificationService so that the entity can raise a domain event. Or, it might ...