JBoss Microcontainer Series

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

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Exclusive Interview: IBM's Chief Agile Methodologist, Scott Ambler

In this interview, recorded at the recent Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile at IBM Rational, shares his findings...

0 replies - 8398 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

REST-*: good specs, bad branding?

In an earlier post, I argued for standardization of some basic REST-inspired mechanisms for the narrow goal of supporting control interfaces for different...

0 replies - 1159 views - 09/18/09 by vambenepe in News

Out-of-the-Box SOA without the Twin-Turbine Engine

In reviewing my last two posts to this blog, I realized that I've actually been describing several of the JBoss SOA Platform's out-of-the-box actions in an ad...

0 replies - 2028 views - 09/16/09 by ldimaggi in Articles

Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) draft released

Have you developed “Cloud API fatigue” from seeing too many IaaS “Cloud APIs” lately? Are you starting to wonder how many different ways there can...

0 replies - 465 views - 09/16/09 by vambenepe in News

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter: Modular Java

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Modular Java' (by Craig Walls). This excerpt was extracted from Modular...

11 replies - 3676 views - 09/15/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Toolkits to wrap and bridge Cloud management protocols

Cloud development toolkits like Libcloud (for Python) and jcloud (for Java) have been around for some time, but over the last two months they have been joined...

0 replies - 435 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News

The Service Engine: Structured Communication using Modern Service Technologies

A simple stand-alone fixed finite state machine may be used as an engine that determines all triggers for a particular set of web services. Such an engine...

0 replies - 802 views - 09/14/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Holistic Agility: Thoughtworks Studios' Cyndi Mitchell

In this interview, recorded at the Agile 2009 Conference, Cyndi Mitchell, Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios, discusses the company's new Adaptive ALM...

0 replies - 3234 views - 09/10/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

SOA Pattern (#8): ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)

The ESB is a compound pattern that pulls together many enablement and enforcement capabilities that come in handy to the SOA practitioner. Thomas Rischbeck...

0 replies - 1621 views - 09/10/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Separating model from protocol in Cloud APIs

What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs?

0 replies - 319 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News

Eliminate Architecture

I believe : The best way to deal with architecture is to eliminate it. Architecture’s Goal Let’s start at the beginning. First, by defining...

13 replies - 4135 views - 09/09/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Service Error Content Patterns (Part I)

Exceptions are a necessary evil in the world of service development and one that must be controlled and planned for. Allowing exceptions just to happen can...

0 replies - 1070 views - 09/07/09 by rmurphyebay in News

VMWare publishes (and submits) vCloud API

VMWare published its vCloud API yesterday (it was previously only available to a few partners) and submitted it to the DMTF, as had been previously announced....

0 replies - 299 views - 09/04/09 by vambenepe in News

Are these your files? I found them on my cloud

Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking? It can happen in different ways. See for example this recent research paper, titled “Hey, You, Get...

0 replies - 896 views - 09/03/09 by vambenepe in News

VMware Submits First Ever Key Cloud Interface API to DMTF

Yesterday at VMworld 2009, VMware announced the submission of its vCloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to enable consistent...

0 replies - 1018 views - 09/02/09 by CodeJustin in News