Ant Kutschera

Ant is a freelance Java architect and developer. He has been writing a blog and white papers since 2004 and writes about anything he finds interesting, related to Java or software. Most recently he has been working on enterprise systems involving Eclipse RCP, Google GWT, Hibernate, Spring and J2ME. He believes very strongly in being involved in all parts of the software lifecycle.

Recent Blog Entries
1	Play 2.0 framework and XA transactions XAtransactions are useful and out of the box, Play 2.0 today does not have support for them. Here Ishow how to add that support: First off, some examples when XA is useful: - JPA uses two physical connections if you use entities from two different ...	Oct 4, 2012
2	Hacking Maven We don't use M2Eclipse to integrate Maven and Eclipse, partly because we had some bad experiences a couple of years ago when we were still using Eclipse 3.4 and partly because some of our developers use IBMs RAD to develop, and it doesn't (or at least ...	May 10, 2012
3	100% code coverage, Hibernate Validator and Design by Contract Code coverage in unit testing was one of the first things I learned in my software engineering career. The company I worked at taught me that you should have 100% coverage as a goal, but achieving it does not mean there are no bugs in the system. At ...	Nov 28, 2011
4	A really simple but powerful rule engine UPDATE: Version 2.0 of the library now exists which supports Scala. It is a breaking change in that "Action" instances as shown below are now "AbstractAction...	Nov 12, 2011
5	JSR-299 & @Produces I've been reading JSR-299 and I have a few thoughts. First, a quote from chapter 1: "The use of these services significantly simplifies the task of creating Java EE applications by integrating the Java EE web tier with Java EE enterprise services. In ...	Nov 7, 2011