This is a review of "Apache CXF Web Service Development" book by Naveen Balani and Rajeev Hathi (Packt Pub, 2009)

This rant is dedicated to code examples (found in books) that promote bad programming habits. Some of them can be counted among famous code smells.

...for God's sake, books should be educational in every aspect !

Do you know this nice tool called Clirr and its Maven plugin ? Well, it is very nice, although it fails miserably in case of some inner class changes. Thus, it doesn't work for some of my projects. :(

Sometimes, when I try to build some (open-source) project from sources, I got checkstyle errors like this (example comes from Fuse ESB):

Yes, I have a grudge against hibernate. Yes, hibernate. Oh, it's a great ORM, I use it a lot, it's really ok. But... but if an inexperienced programmer learns from hibernate-style classes then the get/set trouble comes.