Fluent Navigation in JSF 2

Part 3 on JSF 2: Discover that getting around in a JSF 2 application is much simpler and requires less typing.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Gmail Client Side Architecture Part 1

Gmail is the best web application I have ever seen. Simple implementation, Ajax, Chat, Status Messages, Fast Mail retrieval, live updating and its features are...

2 replies - 41121 views - 06/13/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Book Review: The ThoughtWorks Anthology

Solving the Business "Last Mile". This essay is written by Roy Singham, and Michael Robinson. As many of us have seen in the software industry, there are many challenges which remain during...

0 replies - 4710 views - 06/11/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Pattern Based Development with ServiceMix

Are you still working with integration products from one of the typical large integration vendors such as IBM and Tibco and looking for a more lightweight...

0 replies - 31225 views - 06/10/08 by dirksenrademakers in Articles

SOA way of life: a day in the GUI Shop

SOA way of life: a day in the GUI Shop Following my open questions series to Jazoon'08, I will abandon my server roots for a moment and I will visit the...

0 replies - 708 views - 06/10/08 by Felipe in Articles

Test as a Design Spec

One of a frequently encountered question in enterprise software development is where does the hand off happen from the architect (who design the software) to...

0 replies - 681 views - 06/09/08 by riho in News

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #9 - Versioning

Last week we started the Top 10 SOA Pitfalls countdown with #10: NIH syndrome. This week it's time for #9. Version mismatch is one of the growing pains of a...

4 replies - 3726 views - 06/09/08 by rdegroot in Articles

Testing: Duplicate Code in Your Tests

Sadly, DRY has become a philosophy that is dogmatically and blindly applied to every aspect of programming. I'm a big fan of firing silver bullets but if you...

0 replies - 1952 views - 06/09/08 by Jay Fields in News

Common REST Design Pattern

Based on the same architectural pattern of the web, "REST" has a growing dominance of the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementation these...

19 replies - 18047 views - 06/04/08 by riho in Articles

Software Pipelines in the Real World: Two SOA Performance Case Studies

Performance of service-oriented business applications is a constant concern and one that has led architects and developers to investigate a variety of...

0 replies - 1116 views - 06/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Introducing the A-* Stack

There are so many frameworks, architectural styles, tool stacks from which to choose. Perhaps, there are too many. Yet none of them are able to solve all...

0 replies - 3036 views - 06/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

And you get all the VM libraries for free! Is it actually what I want when I switch languages?

So it is getting more and more interesting. A vast number of languages available. And they are even available on your favorite platform. So you may not need...

3 replies - 2098 views - 06/03/08 by Sadache in News

Free EJB3 Cheatsheet from DZone Now Available

DZone continues its Refcardz series with a new, free PDF cheatsheet on dependency injection and EJB3. Written by EJB expert author, Debu Panda, it covers all...

1 replies - 4103 views - 06/02/08 by Nitin Bharti in News

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #10 - Not Invented Here syndrome

At Xebia we are involved in quite a number of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects, from small to big. In that capacity we see a lot of good stuff...

0 replies - 5998 views - 06/02/08 by vpartington in News

Where's the glue?

0 replies - 308 views - 05/30/08 by Chris Spagnuolo in News

Java Frameworks and Pattern Usage by Developers

A couple of days ago I was thinking of the last time I used a pattern in my daily programming. I think it was 3 months ago! Then I tried to find out why.

9 replies - 4705 views - 05/30/08 by Reza Ghaffaripour in Articles