White Papers
I have just uploaded two papers:
- Agile Software Development of Service Oriented Architectures, Business Process Models and Enterprise Service Buses
- Service Oriented Architecture Strategies
They can be downloaded from: http://www.maxant.co.uk/whitepapers.jsp
java.util.Calendar and the before method
Came across this nice problem today:
The java.util.Calendar class provides a method "before(Object)" which is supposed to tell you if the calendar calling that method is before the given object. BUT, as stated in the javadocs [http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#before(java.lang.Object)] it only works if the passed object is a calendar itself. If its a java.util.Date object, then forget it, the method just returns false, even though you would expect the calendar to be able to compare its date with a Date object.
I can't quite figure out how come they don't just require a Calendar instead of an object. There is nothing in the code to give the reason. So, I just don't get it. But it's been like that for three years now, so I guess we just need to get used to it :-(