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Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, Author of Manning's SOA Patterns, Shares a Free Chapter

Here is an interview with Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, author of Manning's SOA Patterns, which is an under development book and currently available as an early access...

0 replies - 350 views - 07/24/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Animoto.com is no infrastructure flexibility benchmark

I have nothing against Animoto. From what I know about them (mostly from John’s podcast with Brad Jefferson) they built their system, using EC2, in a very...

1 replies - 604 views - 07/22/08 by vambenepe in News

Design patterns and GWT

We have a calculator EntryPoint implementation that places a CalculatorWidget on the RootPanel, so we now need to provide this widget. This will be our own...

0 replies - 2047 views - 07/21/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I want to know what you mean. What you meant. What you will mean. Everytime.

I am a really strong believer in validating assumptions and clearly communicating your decisions with your team before you choose to take a path in front of...

6 replies - 907 views - 07/21/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

Why is Web UI Development Slow?

Have you ever been a team member in a web framework or web product development? You may have noticed although UI prototyping is a fast process but UI...

22 replies - 4594 views - 07/19/08 by ali.loghmani in News

Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies

If you are using a home grown persistence framework, or considering to write one, or trying to move from one framework to another; you should read this book before you venture into either one...

0 replies - 2443 views - 07/17/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

We're Not "Resources"

Resources. It’s a dehumanizing term that is also flat-out wrong for nearly every profession I can think of.

8 replies - 2338 views - 07/15/08 by Mark Turansky in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a user is hard!

After 3 years of being part of an open source software development team (amongst other things) I decided to do something unusual. I decided it was time to...

10 replies - 1421 views - 07/15/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

Case Study: Performance Tuning a Web Shop (Part 1)

My book shelf is full of Java books bought over the years. I cannot remember buying one of them in a real bookstore, I bought them all on-line. I bought not...

0 replies - 2280 views - 07/15/08 by Jeroen Borgers in Articles

What Software Development can learn from Biological Evolution?

From the first sight biological evolution looks too unpredictable to have any value for the constrained software development. We just don't have time, money...

0 replies - 43 views - 07/15/08 by Andriy Solovey in Articles

Where did the B in BPM go?

BPM and SOA seem to be an inseparable love couple. Though I will not deny that the combination is powerful, I do see a lot of confusion arising because people...

0 replies - 995 views - 07/15/08 by terlouw in Articles

GWT Basic Project Structure And Components

The core of every GWT project is the project layout and the basic components required—host pages, entry points, and modules. To begin a GWT project, you need...

2 replies - 1848 views - 07/14/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: Wrap-up

The Top 10 SOA Pitfalls countdown hit #1 last week with Rik de Groot's post on "Ignoring culture when introducing SOA", time for a wrap-up.

0 replies - 818 views - 07/14/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

GlassFish Application Server Refcard Available - Download Now

GlassFish is a free, open source application server which implements the newest features in the Java EE 5 platform, and the use of the GlassFish application...

2 replies - 2734 views - 07/14/08 by Jill Tomich in Articles

Defining & Testing Java Application Architectures with ztest.org

One of the important aspects of software systems is architecture.Every software application has an inner structure, defined by the classes it contains and the...

0 replies - 1209 views - 07/12/08 by Gerd Ziegler in Articles