Joe Morrison is a managing consultant at Lab49, and has over 20 years of experience leading engineering teams in designing and building complex network-based applications. His projects have ranged from distributed object research at Verizon Laboratories, to value chain management software at Benchmarking Partners in Boston, to in-the-trenches SOA projects for financial services firms in New York. Joe holds a BMath degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo, and a master's degree in computer science from MIT. He is a regular blogger on http://blog.lab49.com/.
Java applications have become steadily harder to understand and maintain in recent years. Object-oriented programming has proven an effective way to develop enterprise applications, but several recent trends are causing a sharp increase in code complexity. One is the increasingly commo...May. 23, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,667
