Need to hire someone

[d000hg]

It's a tulipty question as mudskipper pointed out.

Start with a job spec, then build your interview questions around that. This is what the pros do.

It's a coding role, the job spec is "can you code" and "do you know Java, web services, etc".

[DimPrawn]

while the under paid stuff doers crack on and cobble something together that vaguely passes the UAT tests.

You see that suity, that's you that is.

[doodab]

I would give up searching because you´re basically excluding most of the best Java programmers.

Only the ones who aren't good enough.

Most people seem to be assuming I'm just trying to be "clever" while looking for someone to build a common or garden database backed business application or do some XML manipulation or some other BAU task with a preexisting tool or framework. That isn't what we're doing, and while we're obviously not ruling out people who can do that stuff, we need to filter them because a surprising number of people who can use those sorts of tools effectively simply don't know where to start with a problem that hasn't already been half solved.

You´r looking exclusively for a good Java progranmer who solved that problem last week.

No, we're not looking for someone to solve that specific problem at all. It's a leading question. I'm asking that to gain insight into how people go about clarifying requirements and solving problems, and how good they are at looking at completely abstract problems. The expectation is that if they have a good approach to solving that problem, and good background knowledge, that will transfer to other problems.

Question #2, for those who are interested:

How would you marshall and unmarshall java objects to/from XML if you aren't allowed to use JAXB or otherwise analyze schemas at compile time?

[darmstadt]

Hire me, I have absolutely no idea what you're on about but I look good in a miniskirt and fishnets and can make a mean cup of tea

[minestrone]

Bytecode generation.

[DimPrawn]

Question #2, for those who are interested:

How would you marshall and unmarshall java objects to/from XML if you aren't allowed to use JAXB or otherwise analyze schemas at compile time?

I'd port it all to .NET/C# it's all much simpler and you can hire devs easily for half the money.

HTH BIDI

[suityou01]

I'd port it all to .NET/C# it's all much simpler and you can hire devs easily for half the money.

HTH BIDI

[DimPrawn]

Here's one now.

[doodab]

I'd port it all to .NET/C# it's all much simpler and you can hire devs easily for half the money.

HTH BIDI

So how would you Marshall and unmarshall xml in .net without generating classes from schemas at compile time?

[mudskipper]

So how would you Marshall and unmarshall xml in .net without generating classes from schemas at compile time?

System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer x = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(DoodabsObje ct.GetType());
x.Serialize(Console.Out, DoodabsObject);