One of the prime reasons for the increasing shift in attention towards functional programming these days is the rise of multithreading/processing and the advantages of FP's focus on side-effect fre...

Must a class that is a "gang of four" strategy be completely stateless (ie no fields) or can it contain immutable state (ie final fields)?

I've got a simple WCF service that lets clients/consumer applications log in by providing a username and password. If both the username and password are correct, the WCF service provides the client...

Suppose I have a class T where T has no virtual functions. T instances have no state. T has static member instances of itself. T itself has no other state. Can the C++ static initialization fia...

I would like to know what the opposite of a 'stateless protocol' is. Am I correct in assuming that, seeing as HTTP is stateless, for example, then a protocol such as FTP is the opposite/one that ma...

I have read this post and it doesn't answer my question. Stateless session bean with instance variables I am reading the JEE5 tutorial and on this page it states http://download.oracle.com/javaee...

It seems some web architects aim to have a stateless web application. Does that mean basically not storing user sessions? Or is there more to it? If it is just the user session storing, what is th...

I am working on a REST API that will be used by developers writing mobile apps. Users will be able to use 3rd party services (Google, Twitter etc) to authenticate themselves, this is mainly handled...

I've been working with Wicket for month or two now, making simple web applications with it and getting used to models and so forth. Now I'd like to move forward and see if I can put what I've learn...

Imagine a more complex CRUD application which has a three-tier-architecture and communicates over webservices. The client starts a conversation to the server and doing some wizard like stuff. To pr...

I'm developing a new experimental web-application framework, and I decided to give RESTful some attention. I've read up on the basics, and feel like I have a pretty good understanding of RESTful as...

The other minute I read an article on OAuth. It described especially the tokens being exchanged between client and service provider during a series of requests. The article also mentioned that OAu...

Is there a difference between generating multiple numbers using a single random number generator (RNG) versus generating one number per generator and discarding it? Do both implementations generate...