Architecture

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500...

0 replies - 670 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

In the "Data Path": Dumping the Database

Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides.  Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching...

0 replies - 143 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

SOA and Cloud

Following on from my post about our WSO2 Cloud announcements, I felt it was important to talk about how I see Cloud intersecting with SOA.

0 replies - 239 views - 11/20/09 by PaulFremantle in News

Azure to Feature App Marketplace

Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form.  The announcement was made at this week's PDC...

0 replies - 360 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

CTO Ari Zilka Says Terracotta is Fast

Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009.  Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and distributed...

0 replies - 1979 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

From ESB to BPEL - Continuing with the RiftSaw-JBossESB Integration

In the previous post to this blog, we looked at orchestrating JBossESB services from a RiftSaw BPEL process. In this post, we'll look at the other side of the...

0 replies - 940 views - 11/18/09 by ldimaggi in News

Impression on Scala

I have been hearing quite a lot of good comments about the Scala programming language. I personally use Java extensively in the past and have switched to Ruby...

3 replies - 1208 views - 11/17/09 by riho in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mark your calendars!  The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.  Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. ...

0 replies - 1893 views - 11/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Top 6 Open Source Java EE Application Servers

 This is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the community...

5 replies - 4922 views - 11/16/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Is OSGi Adoption Growing? An Interview with Kirk Knoernschild

Interest in OSGi has seen a steady increase over the years as the benefits of modularity drive its adoption.  In a recent blog post, Kirk Knoernschild of the...

0 replies - 2251 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Introduction to Amazon Cloud Computing

Amazon is the current leader of Cloud provider based on the IaaS model. At the heart of its technology stack, they have the virtual machine layer called EC2....

0 replies - 1246 views - 11/13/09 by riho in News

Knowledge Management: It's All About Granularity

In my pursuit of the ideal collaboration platform, I’ve tested a few knowledge management systems lately: Knowledge Plaza, Seemy, a combination of...

0 replies - 755 views - 11/12/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 436 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

On static compilation of Groovy

Groovy is the great programming language. Period. I am not going to argue about that and I don't plan to convince anybody. If you don't share this belief or...

11 replies - 3815 views - 11/10/09 by Alex Tkachman in Articles

A Look Inside JBoss Microcontainer's ClassLoading Layer

Now that we've grasped the Virtual File System (VFS) concepts, it’s time we move on to Microcontainer’s ClassLoading layer (as promised in the previous...

0 replies - 3329 views - 11/10/09 by alesj in Articles