For your use case where the application runs on one server and the database runs on another, the choice between EJB and Spring is irrelevant. Every platforms supports this, be it a Java SE application, a simple Servlet container like Tomcat or Jetty, PHP, Ruby on Rails, or whatever. You don’t need any kind of … Read more
Java 7.0 added a new handy class: Objects. It has a method exactly for this: Objects.equals(Object a, Object b)
If you can use a GUI tool, the best I tried is WinMerge – open source. If not, then diff is your friend.
The major areas where Visual Studio Express lacks features compared to Visual Studio Professional: No add-ins/macros Some Win32 tools missing No Team Explorer support Limited refactoring support Debugging is much more limited (particularly problematic for server development is no remote debugging) Lack of support for setup projects No report creation tools No Office development support … Read more