Ravi Kumar, the lead developer for Application Factories at CodeGear, is being interviewed by Jonathan Erickson. He talks about how Application Factories came to being in JBuilder 2008 and what makes them so useful. The article can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/6xsewa.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ravi in person at the CodeGear booth at JAX 2008. He talked to me about Appication Factories and I really think they are an amazing way to improve developing applications in the Java World.
As a sidenote: In case you have been at JAX… I guarantee you that his skills as a developer exceed his abilities playing Wii Tennis quite a lot! 
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