XPlanner —
Trail Ridge Consulting has released the results of an agile project management tooling survey performed in late 2006. Apparently, APM tools are being widely used by both small and large organizations although the primary reasons differ with the size of the organization. It was interesting to me to see that card-based approaches are use less […]
Check out the new article about XPlanner in JavaWorld.
As a side note, I’ve had several people request the XPlanner on Rails code. It would be very interesting to have someone pursue that effort.
Back in 1997, Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder wrote about The Selfish Class. Their paper was focused on software artifacts, mostly at the class or class library level but I believe the patterns also describe how application usage spreads.
According to Foote and Yoder…
“THE SELFISH CLASS pattern examines how the sociobiological notion that evolving artifacts tend […]
I did some experimentation with the technique for integrating LDAP data into XPlanner I wrote about yesterday. Unfortunately the results were not encouraging.
The JdbcLDAP Bridge does provide some basic JDBC access to LDAP. However, it has some serious limitations when used with Hibernate. The getMetaData() function returns null in the released version of the JAR […]
I’ve been thinking about the problem of integrating existing LDAP user profiles into the XPlanner domain model. This is something that has been requested from users with large-scale XPlanner installations. The challenge is how to make the domain model easily and uniformly accessible to the XPlanner code when it’s partitioned across a combination of relational […]