PathProxy is a design pattern for persisting complex relationships without cluttering up your database. In this article JavaWorld contributor Matthew Tyson introduces his PathProxy pattern and walks you through an example application implementation based on Spring, JSF, and JPA/Hibernate.
Agile Development is one of the big buzzwords of the software development industry. But what exactly is it? Agile Development is a different way of managing software development projects. The key principles, and how Agile Development fundamentally differs from a more traditional Waterfall approach to software development, are as follows:
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