Welcome to Best of Java

A compilation of Java Best Practices, Best of Breed Frameworks, Libraries, Tools and whatever else comes to my mind.

• Best Practices
• Development process: Scrum
• Change management: Kanban
• Development technique: Test Driven Development (TDD) (+ Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) ?)
• Standards
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• Best of Breed Libraries
• Annotation extension: Lombok
• IO processing: Commons IO
• Logging: LogBack
• Mocking: Mockito
• Real-time collections: Javolution
• Security: Shiro 
• Time and date: Joda Time
• XML processing: XMLBeans

• Best of Breed Frameworks
• Dependency Injection Container: Guice
• Web application: Play, Grails

• Best of Breed Tools
• Build: Maven
• Behaviour Driven Development (BDD): Cucumber
• Code quality management: Sonar
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Deployment: Hudson
• Database Change Management: DbDeploy
• Database Documentation: SchemaSpy
• Deployment: Cargo
• Functional Web Application Testing: Selenium
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Eclipse
• Monitoring: Splunk 
• Mutation Testing: Jester
• Server provisioning: Vagrant, Puppet 
• Similarity Analyzer: Simian
• Source Control: Subversion
• Test Driven Development (TDD): JUnit
• Test Load Balancing: Test Load Balancer  
• Web Service Testing: soapUI

• Agile
• Agile Test Analyst
• Backlog tool
• Big Visible Charts  
• Prioritisation
• Project Charter  
• Risk Management  
• User story mapping  

• Code Snippets
• Double brace initialisation
• Test Data Builder  
• Unit testing concurrent access of static methods

• Random Pieces of Wisdom
• Don't fight symptoms, find the root cause
• Leaders have followers; Managers have employees
• Never be the best player in a band
• Rules are meant to be broken
• Spiderman dilemma
• Teams hate being disrupted
• Teams need a vision not a detailed project plan
• The only real failure is the failure to learn from failure!
• We are only philosophers until we begin to use numbers
• You are not done before it's done

• Other Languages
• Ruby
• Scala