Archive for August, 2007

DSI Sponsors No Fluff Just Stuff eXchange 2007

DSI sponsors The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series, the premier technical java/agility conference, coming to London in the First European NFJS eXchange 2007, August 29th-31st.

The NFJS eXchange 2007 will cover the latest in trends, best practices, and newest developments in Enterprise Java, Java/Groovy, ESB/SOA, Ajax, Web Services, Agile Software Development and Architecture. There are 5 concurrent tracks with over 50 sessions to choose from with some of the following topics: Java 6.0, OSGI, Domain Driven Design, Annotations, REST, JRuby, Enterprise Ajax, REST, Groovy, Grails, JPA and many more.

The NFJS eXchange features leading industry experts, who share their practical and real-world experiences.

DSI blog readers will receive £100 off each ticket when booking - just enter the promotion code NFJS-DES623 in the registration form.

More information on the No Fluff Just Stuff eXchange 2007 can be found at: http://www.nfjs-exchange.com/pcd/1154

- Nessa

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Spring.NET - Introspection vs. Reflection. Use of Mono.Cecil library.

Thanks to Bruno Baia and Mark Pollack for pointing me to the Mono.Cecil introspection library. The focus of the previous post on this subject were limitations of System.Reflection library in relation to copying custom attributes from the original type to the target type.

High level inspection of Mono.Cecil showed that library looks very promising for resolving the custom attributes issue and far beyond this.

I only targeted some proof of concept for this time, and code to follow can be pretty naive at some places and only counts now with copying of type attributes from one type to another (not including methods, properties, parameters’ attributes). Though it should be pretty straight forward to evolve to the fully fledged solution.

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