You use CVS and tag your stuff every release right? But it can be a pain for your clients to get at your version info in your jar file once it’s out there in the wild. I’ve tried a couple of ways. You can use jar manifest entries for Implementation-Version or you can call your jar myjar-1.2.3.jar. The former is not very accessible for clients to get to, the later can be a pain for [...]

Been putting together some UML for developer docs and I’ve gotta say that UML For Java Programmers is one very cool book. I’ve never really grokked UML, so it’s been pretty hard work going at any of the more hardcore texts. The neat thing about this book is that it lets you reverse engineer. It gives you some simple sample Java code using some common coding idiom, like classes which contain a Collection of some [...]