"Secrets of lightweight development success"

I found a very interesting article written by Bruce Tate some times ago. It speaks about how to perform a quite successful development by using a lightweight approach.
There is a lot of matter to discuss, and I find many interesting thoughts in this article. I let you discover by yourself this one (it is a quite long article actually ;) ).

Secrets of lightweight development success :

• Part 1: Core principles and philosophies
• Part 2: How to lighten up your containers
• Part 3: The emergence of Spring
• Part 4: A comparison of lightweight containers
• Part 5: Agile development at conservative companies
• Part 6: Persistence strategies
• Part 7: Java alternatives

This article was written in 2005, and IT goes quickly... So, even if it needs to be updated, it is still globably up to date wrt the state of art.