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Cathedral and the Bazaar
http://www.curtisfong.org/~nyet/cathedral/
Development strategies for a free development project. - A must read
The Deadline
http://www.atlsysguild.com/Site/Tom/Deadline01
Tom DeMarco talks about project management in novel format. - Another must read
IBM's Building High-Performance Applications and Servers in Java: An Experiential Study
http://www.ibm.com/java/education/javahipr.html
The authors have done an excellent job identifying, and providing workarounds for, Java programming at the application and library level. I think their points are specially relevant to the 'clean room' implementation of the APIs and the Service layer, and should be studied by those responsible for their implementation. - Joubin (joubin@inch.com)
Rapid Development : Taming Wild Software Schedules
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1556159005/r/1208-8590461-305546
Steve Mc Connell discusses risk management, timelines, setting expectations, and other essentials.
Designing Open Systems
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/coord/index.html
Doug Lea's essay on Designing Open Systems in Java
Unified objects
http://www.sunlabs.com/technical-reports/1994/abstract-29.html
SunLabs talks about their vision of unified objects
-- IanDavis, 5 Nov 1997
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