At the core of any automated system is the basic closed-loop paradigm: sense, decide, act. This model reverberates from the lowest machine component all the way to the business enterprise, starting ...

The decorator pattern is a good way to add extensibility to an application, as it follows SOLID design principles. Learn how to use it by adding validation logic to a form. The decorator pattern is a ...

Software components are “binary units of independent production, acquisition, and deployment that interact to form a functioning system.”1 In basic terms, software components are pieces of software ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

Many design organizations are evolving their flows to an Executable Live Specification (ELS) driven methodology and making huge gains in designer productivity because of increased and coherent ...

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Java interfaces are different from classes, and it’s important to know how to use their special properties in your Java programs. This tutorial introduces the difference between classes and interfaces ...

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) are important for developing mission-critical business applications in Java. However, business applications don’t exist in isolation; today, companies require integrated ...