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J2EE Killed Me - How to Survive with Legacy Code

📅 2012-09-25

Silverpeas is a product created in 1999 by a startup that had up to 40 developers. It was the blessed era of Weblogic, Orion... where we knew how to code with UltraEdit and without tests of BMP EJBs.

Can we continue to evolve such code? How do we keep this product alive 10 years later with a team of 5 developers?

Don’t expect to hear about the latest trendy frameworks. There will be blood and sweat, and Chuck Norris won’t come to save you...

A hands-on experience report, sleeves rolled up, to show you that nothing is ever lost.