Best of this Week Summary 20 July - 26 July 2009

• Handy tip for creating testdata for your testclasses via "factory" helper classes, to prevent copying the construction of this testdata again and again.
  There's also a database version.
  


• A comparison of the following opensource search engines: Lucene, Zettair, Indri, Sphinx, and Xapian.
  


• Best practices for using the Java Native Interface.
  


• A great "free PDF White Paper from OASIS, OMG, and The Open Group was written to help the SOA community at large to navigate the myriad of overlapping technical products produced by these organizations with specific emphasis on the “A” in SOA; i.e., Architecture. The docment explains and positions architectural standards for SOA reference models and ontologies, reference architectures, maturity models, SOA modeling profiles, and open standards work related to the topic of SOA governance. It also outlines the agreement on core SOA and SOA governance concepts."
  


• How bad can one GOTO statement really be? ;)