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David Pitt

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David Pitt is a Sr. Solutions Architect and Managing Partner of Keyhole Software with nearly 37 years IT experience. Recent projects involve speaking, writing, and training developers in enterprise JavaScript​/single-page application​ development best practices​, as well as the development of GrokOla, the Q&A-based wiki software​ for development teams.​

Build vs. Buy, Creating a Report Writing Framework

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Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.During one of my engagements, a requirement arose for the production of numerous financial audit reports in PDF format. These reports currently existed and were being produced by COBOL applications, and since …

Code Design Decision – Protecting Delegate Access?

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Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.I ran into a design decision on one my engagements. Consider an abstract class implementation that references another (delegate) object. Convenience methods are in the primary class that are called by concrete classes. This …

Spring/JPA Java SQL Scalar Function Utility for Layered Applications

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Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Most Java applications interact with a relational data source through a POJO object model that is mapped with an object relational (OR) mapping framework.  Developers don’t have to worry about constructing SQL, …

Making Java EE Software Development Agile, Overcoming the Disconnect

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Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.If you want to go surfing but you live smack dab in Kansas, it could be a challenge. (Unless you want to go paddle in a lake.) If you want to create …