No matter what a user’s personal opinion of object-oriented programming, in automation there is no way around OOP anymore. It is the duty of the producer to design and package the technique in a way, ...

Another topic I covered with during my interview with Sun Microsystems' Joe Hartley was "Greenfoot," a tool that Sun helped develop (providing financial and consultative support to the developers ...

The object-oriented possibilities in JPA go far beyond what has been covered in this article: JPA also lets you write JPQL queries (similar to Hibernate’s HQL queries) or native SQL queries, and ...

From the beginning, my ultimate goal was to get to the modern programming concepts, such as event-driven programming, active objects (a.k.a. actors), hierarchical state machines, modeling, and ...