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JVM Language Summit - last day

The final day of the language summit sported loads of interesting presentations, just like the first two days. I can’t over stress how well prepared these...

0 replies - 2227 views - 10/06/08 by olabini in Articles

JVM Language Summit - first day

Just came back from the first day of the JVM language summit, and it’s been a very interesting day indeed. I made some bad morning choices - and spending...

0 replies - 2139 views - 10/06/08 by olabini in Articles

JVM Language Summit 2008 Report

Thoughtworker and DZone MVB blogger Ola Bini recently attended and blogged from the JVM Language Summit that took place in Santa Clara, California last month....

0 replies - 6707 views - 10/06/08 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

A Simple Clustered Task Distribution System

This article will introduce the basic concepts of JGroups and then implement a task distribution system (on top of JGroups), where tasks can be placed into the...

4 replies - 19240 views - 10/06/08 by Bela Ban in Articles

A Look Inside the JBoss Microcontainer, Part I -- Component Models

Looking at the current state of Java, we can see that POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) rule the land yet again. Their dominance stretches from enterprise...

26 replies - 16726 views - 10/01/08 by alesj in Articles

Case study: Performance Tuning a Web Shop – Part 2

In the first part of this article, I’ve talked about the speedup challenge of a large Dutch web shop. We discussed our biggest gains applied on bottlenecks...

5 replies - 5829 views - 09/30/08 by Jeroen Borgers in Articles

JAX-RS Vendor Comparisons

I'd like to evaluate the four products that I know of that support JAX-RS:

2 replies - 6706 views - 09/26/08 by Solomon in Articles

The Great GWT Roundup

Over the past two months or so we here at the web builder zone, thanks to Manning Publishing, have been publishing a comprehensive series on GWT. We recently...

0 replies - 11385 views - 09/26/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Q&A with Rod Johnson over Spring's maintenance policy changes

This is the content of a Q&A I did with Rod Johnson, concerning the uproar over Spring's announced changes in their maintenance release publication....

54 replies - 9548 views - 09/24/08 by Joseph Ottinger in News

Q&A: Joe Ottinger on What's New in GigaSpaces XAP 6.6

GigaSpaces has just released GigaSpaces XAP 6.6 which brings improved ease of use, stronger alignment with Java EE technologies and remote service invocations....

0 replies - 3062 views - 09/22/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Architectural Shelf Life

Architectures are often thought of having an useful life but that life is usually hard to predict. Most of the time it is determined by how much pain an...

0 replies - 1549 views - 09/02/08 by driveawedge in Articles

Qi4j: REST EntityStore and SPARQL EntityFinder = rich client web apps!

From my work on SiteVision I've become quite fond of writing rich clients using applets or JavaWebStart, with Swing, and then connect back to the server for...

0 replies - 2429 views - 08/18/08 by Rickard Oberg in News

Documenting Thread Safety

Along with the problem of actually making code thread-safe, there is also the problem of documenting it so other programmers know how to use your code. In...

3 replies - 3260 views - 08/11/08 by Alex Miller in News

Google App Engine performance - Part 1

Okay its been a few weeks now and I thought I'd take a look at the performance and how spiky it was. The highest hit element was the gadget with a few thousand...

0 replies - 3114 views - 08/08/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Executing SOA: An Interview with Robert Laird and Tilak Mitra

Earlier, we reviewed the excellent book Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service Oriented Architect from IBM Press. I recently had the opportunity to...

0 replies - 2224 views - 08/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles