One project I worked on a few years back required every interaction with the server to first go through a servlet, a validation interface which then hit a required Business Delegate class, a Session ...

Loose coupling is always a good idea. After all, what's wrong with abstracting away separate layers of concern, creating pluggability points, making your design more flexible, and creating a software ...

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I recently had the opportunity to chat with Scott Metzger, CTO of TrueCredit (a subsidiary of TransUnion). TrueCredit has a very compelling story to tell, and lessons to be shared, because the company ...