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La nouvelle version de Java 7 est en cours de préparation. Malgré le retard et les incertitudes sur le contenu, nous considérons que Java 7 constitue une opportunité intéressante pour le langage. Après un premier article consacré aux nouvelles librairies proposées pour Java 7, ce second article introductif vous propose de découvrir les nouvelles fonctionnalités du langage et de la JVM. Là encore, en cas de doute sur le contenu de la version finale, nous préciserons les réserves concernant une librairie ou une syntaxe en indiquant si l'exemple de code proposé compilait avec la version de prévisualisation 1.7.0-ea-b37.

Among the remarks have about symfony 1.1, the most recurring one is the shift of philosophy between the 1.0 and 1.1 syntax. If symfony 1.0 syntax was made to write code fast, I believe it is not the case anymore with symfony 1.1, which is designed primarily for extensibility. The result is that a symfony 1.1 application looks a lot more like a Java program. I tend to agree that Object-Orientation is a good thing because it forces you to organize your code in a modular way. But when object-orientation makes you need to keep a symfony book aside at all times and multiply the number of LOC by two, I think it's a dead end.

While still messing around with the PHP_CodeSniffer Pear package, I took a somehow jealous 1000 feet look at some prominent code inspection tools of the Java community: PMD and Checkstyle. Browsing their available rule sets/checks I soon recognized that guaranteeing the coding standard adherence is just a partial aspect of these tools. The following post will focus on one of these additional aspects, which is finding problems related to the code size of the inspected code artifacts, by showing how to port two selected rules to sniffs for utilization with the PHP_CodeSniffer tool. These ported sniffs can be used to automatically spot obvious code smells in the code base and to signal the need to apply the appropriate and odour reducing activity known as refactoring. Further more a complete set of code size sniffs, going beyond the trageted realm of the sniffs to come, could be used to speed up the feedback loop and to reduce the effort for manual code reviews.