Now that we share a common understanding of the JEE project structure, we can do something a little more interesting. Our Domain Model will include all the classes necessary to functionally represent our business problem. So we’ll start by looking at our business requirements.

Sounds like a bad spam, doesn’t it? I always cringe while composing memos regarding ‘performance issues’, but as embarrassing as they may be, sometimes we just have to cowboy-up and deal with ‘em.

Using the right tool for the job may seem like a no-brainer, but there are all sorts of people in the software development community that ignore this sage advice. Some of the big names providing development tools also ignore this in their product line and so it’s left to the consumer of those products (programmers) [...]