Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

JBoss Microcontainer Series

In part 4 of his Microcontainer series, Ales Justin looks under the hood at JBoss MC's varous classloading features.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could...

0 replies - 2269 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 445 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 - 2226 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 - 1228 views - 11/18/09 by ldimaggi in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...

1 replies - 2118 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Transfer Obejcts vs Business Objects - Which Approach Works Best?

I would like to get the community's feedback on a common technical discussion about what is the best approach, Transfer objects or Business objects...

24 replies - 2716 views - 11/17/09 by alvarovilaplana in Articles

The Benefits of Testable Code

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why...

1 replies - 3453 views - 11/17/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

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 - 1309 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 - 2186 views - 11/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Inside the New Apache Solr

In 2006, Solr was donated to the Apache Foundation and integrated into the Lucene project.  Apache Solr is an enterprise search platform that powers the...

2 replies - 3273 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Google App Engine Spurs Python Growth

An Evans Data Corp survey shows a 45% increase in the usage of Python since Spring of 2008 - the same time Google's App Engine was announced.  The results...

3 replies - 353 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

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 - 5290 views - 11/16/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

LTech's New Tools for Google Apps

Today, LTech announced two cloud enablement tools for the Google Apps platform.  They announced the release of the Single Sign-On application, which provides...

0 replies - 827 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights.  Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple...

0 replies - 2169 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be?  Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. ...

0 replies - 2701 views - 11/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News